We use VisualCron. It has all the features you can wish for, regarding scheduling tasks.

It depends if you want to build on your existing experience, or if you want to learn something completely different. Personally, I chose to step into the Ruby on Rails world. It's like emigrating to China (or Japan): different language, but also different habits, conventions, norms, values and brand names ("Capistrano" sounds like a coffee brand). It's hard at first, but fun as well. There's a good free course CS169. Search Youtube as well.

We have been using SourceGear Vault for years. Integrates very well with Visual Studio, but also has a good stand-alone client. For a single developer, it's free. All your source code is in a single SQL server database, so it's easy to backup. It's not as cool as git, I suppose, but it works and it's reliable.

Take a look at Utilify. It's a flexible system, and does what was mentioned earlier: put tasks in a database table and hand off to PCs and/or servers.

I had the same experience when I saw someone minimizing a window. It goes down to the dock (task bar in Windows) as if it is sucked there by a vacuum cleaner. It's called the Genie effect. Very neat, too! My next laptop after that experience was a MacBook Pro. I run Windows with VMWare, because I am a VB.NET developer after all, but I use my Mac as a source of inspiration for my own work. Ever since, I try to make my own Windows Forms as self-evident as the Mac's ones. Only put the necessary buttons and labels, and nothing else. Use plenty of spacing. Etc. I'm very happy with my Mac.

We migrated our company (10 employees) to Google apps. I don't know if it would work for a large number of users, but so far (6 months) it works great. Spam filter is great, searching mail is great, mailboxes are huge. User maintenance is good enough.

SourceGear has nice products. We have been using them for years. They have free versions for single developers. Great integration with Visual Studio, good client, easy maintenance.

We use Dragnet from SourceGear http://www.sourcegear.com/dragnet[^]

I often have the same feeling, so I would say you're right. On the other hand, a few seconds after the feeling comes up, I realize that I see a mistake made by someone else. The next time, someone else will see me making a mistake. And how would I feel if someone thinks I am extremely stupid and should be fired, just because I made a 'small' mistake. Being stupid and doing stupid things are different things. How was this saying from the bible? Something about a splinter in someone else's hand and a beam in your own eye. So, be patient with your fellow human beings. And learn to live with it, because it won't get any better.