Category: tech
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Phone as notetaker, email as a journal, plus my own light version of GTD
I've been using a very light form of "Getting Things Done" (GTD) for a little over a year now. This has been for mail management and self organization both for work and personal aspects of my life.
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Tree Surgeon 2 released
Back in the dim and distant past (before about 18 months ago) when I used to write code, one of the things I scribed was a little .NET utility by the name of Tree Surgeon. After hanging up my programming gloves I handed this little guy over to Bil Simser.
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Please can someone combine Netflix and Apple TV
I like Netflix - I pay a fixed amount per month and can watch as many rented movies / TV shows as a I want (subject to having a fixed number at any one time, and transportation time lags.)
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Spanning Sync - Google Calendar Syncing for Macs (and distributed Calendaring revisited)
I have a mac at work and a mac at home now. How to keep these in sync? Simple - Spanning Sync using Google Calendar as the shared central point. It's not free, but it 'just works' (ok, Leopard had some iSync bugs in the early versions, but everything seems ok again now.) I really like how I can edit a calendar entry on my work machine and know it will eventually get synced to my iPhone when I sync that at home.
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Job opportunities in my group at NYSE Euronext
I've been on my current team a year now, and things are coming along very nicely. We've got a great bunch of people, the agile / XP practice is moving along nicely (lots of pairing, big whiteboard walls, TDD, automated acceptance testing, etc.), and we moved the desktop development environment to fully-specced MacBook Pros with 30" external screens. Oh, and the pool table is still here so we've been honing our skills on that too.
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Kent Beck on code maintainabilty
I don't often have entries that are just quotes, but I liked this from Kent Beck on the importance of code maintainability:
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Facebook & Work
I've really enjoyed using Facebook for the last year or so. Of all the social networking apps out there I think it's been one that has actually added to my overall happiness.
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HD-DVD going Beta, Blu-ray to follow relatively soon
The high definition disc war is pretty much a done deal now - Blu-ray is the victor. I knew it was happening, but when I got an email from Netflix today telling me I wouldn't be getting HD-DVDs from them for much longer it confirmed my suspicions.
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The Facebook Douchebag Quotient
Facebook is my second, ok, third favourite new geekyness of the year (after my iPhone and lolcats). Despite the wonderous waste of time in hitting 'ignore' for the latest inane pirate / ninja / super-awesome-totally-better-than-the-last-super-wall oriented application I receive an invite for, it has actually provided the ability to contact people I haven't talked to for ages, and allowed me to email people who change their real email address / lose their phone more often than I complain about tourists dawdling outside of my work building trying to get into Century 21.
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Wondering where your Gmail IMAP access is?
I was very glad to hear a few weeks ago when Google announced IMAP access for Gmail, the main reason being that this will mean my iPhone view of my email is much more closely tied to the Gmail application's view of my mail. They've even done some clever stuff like using IMAP folders to simulate some of the Gmail experience (e.g. to remove a mail from inbox, but leave it available in the 'all mail' view, delete it from your IMAP inbox and it still appears in an 'All Mail' IMAP folder.)