On Oct-1 I began a 12-day trip starting in Zagreb, Croatia and finishing in Istanbul, Turkey. I bought an extra battery for my laptop but I guess I won't need it as the bus has electrical power. Here's what my office looks like... Can you believe this? :)

This has been the view from my office today afternoon, while traveling from Belgrade, Serbia to Sofia, Bulgaria:

On our second day we'll travel towards Turkey crossing approx. 1,500 km (930 miles). I'm very much looking forward to traveling and working at the same time!

When you are building a user interface in VBA for any of the Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010 programs you have a choice of using either built-in controls or custom controls. Custom controls are especially suitable when you need to create something at runtime. In this project I am using resources that are located in an external file and loaded at runtime.

I recommend using the following tools for working with RibbonX:

• Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for editing RibbonX XML
• VMware Workstation for running different versions of Office

This is what my home office in Zagreb looks like.

oDesk is a big part of my life and this is where all the magic happens :)

My setup includes the Lenovo ThinkPad T500 laptop, and a Dell UltraSharp U2711 27" monitor. I also use the ThinkPad Travel Keyboard and Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000. I'm using the Creative Labs X-Fi Surround 5.1 sound card hooked up to Logitech 5.1 sound system, and an inexpensive 500GB USB drive that works great for storage.

This is a screen shot of my typical desktop when working. As you can tell, I'm a huge fan of Excel and Visual Studio. For my work I use a lot of VMware, mostly for testing and development.