Thursday, September 21, 2006

I just reclaimed 10 minutes of my day!

Thanks to the app I just wrote, I can connect directly to servers at the office using a menu tree that I setup. I can group similar servers together and just click them in the menu. Instant connection. It even logs in for me. If the auto-login feature is of no use to you, have no fear, just leave the password blank and it will prompt you as it would normally.

Sure, I know what someone is thinking, "He could just create RDP files and shortcuts." Whoever is thinking that has no clue how many servers I'm talking about.

I hope everyone enjoys this addition to the collection as much as I do. The Software Jedi especially hopes that you use the "donate" button to the right to show your enjoyment. (Waves arm) Donate now.

This took the Software Jedi 4.5 hours to write. How long until the ROI is reached for my use alone? ~ One and a half months assuming it saves me 10 minutes a day. However, if 30 other people from my office would use this (people similarly tasked with logging into a bazillion servers per day), it would see it's ROI at the end of the day tomorrow. Surely RAD has a place in the enterprise.

If there were too many acronyms in that last paragraph for you, I apologize. You're reading the wrong blog.

Use the link on the right to download the application and source, or click here if you are uber lazy.

6 Comments:

At 9/21/2006 2:45 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is an awesome app, will help me heaps. Thank You SOftware Jedi

 
At 9/21/2006 9:31 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great App and even greater idea!

Btw, out of curiosity, how many servers are we talking about? :P

 
At 9/21/2006 5:03 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where is the live chat? I've looked everywhere and can't find a link!!

 
At 9/22/2006 8:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This one is an interesting app.

 
At 9/26/2006 7:58 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've extended this (hope that's okay).
It now allows multiple username/passwords, editable treeview UI for creating/modifying/deleting servers and uses the displayname as the temp file name so can open multiple servers at the same time.

Will make the code available if anyone's interested.

 
At 9/26/2006 11:53 AM, Blogger JG said...

Was thinking of doing just what you did tristan, code would be appreciated. :) Just tested it out and this thing is sweet!

 

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