My Google Chrome profile got corrupted yesterday (???).
I needed to reinstall my extensions and found this gem: One Number
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfkohgkpafhkpdcnfadadcibfboapggi
One notification extension for all vital Google Apps.
GMail
Google Reader
Google Wave
Google Voice
To bad I don’t have a Google Voice account… yet.
Final round!?
Even more books I brought to work.
Quite a few titles from The Pragmatic Bookshelf it seems ;)
Links goes to Amazon UK.
Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together
High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers
Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free: A Guide to Making Money on the Web
WPF Recipes in C# 2008: A Problem-Solution Approach (Recipes: A Problem-solution Approach)
Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby (Pragmatic Programmers)
Test Driven Development (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion (Pragmatic Programmers)
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 (PRO-Developer)
Interface Oriented Design: With Patterns (Pragmatic Programmers)
Mastering Dojo: JavaScript and Ajax Tools for Great Web Experiences (Pragmatic Programmers)
I brought most of my Tech books to work. Feels good to share them, and they get used once again.
Here is the first out of two post listing them. Topics covered by the books are: Domain Driven Design, Ruby On Rails development, Personal Time Management, .Net Development, Lean/Agile development and more.
Links goes to Amazon UK
Domain-driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Programmers)
Crush It!: Why Now is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby and Rails (Expert's Voice)
The Rails Way: Driving Rails into the Enterprise (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)
Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails
Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: The Easy Way to Do More in Less Time (Pragmatic Life)
Have been playing with Visual Studio 2010 RC and the improved MVC features. Must say that I really like web development in Visual Studio again.
Thank you Microsoft!
Now you can start competing about my spare time again ;)
References:
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate
- ASP.NET MVC - The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
Got some feedback on my prior post http://www.jontesays.com/jonte-says/2010/02/first-impressions-gladinet-cloud-desktop-client-utilizing-my-google-docs-storage.html
Triggered me to compare the Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO) of "Google + Gladinet 80GB" versus "Dropbox 20GB".
Edit: Added Diino.com to the comparison.
Summary:
Google Docs with Graph and Prices: Google Account Storage vs.Dropbox 201... - Google Docs.
Seems like when you navigate in Gmail (older/never links) and enters a Buzz message, the comment form are messed up.
At least I could reproduce this every time in my last session.
(Google Chrome 4.0.249.89 beta (38071) but not IE8 on Windows 7 Enterprise)
I did say minor glitch!
Accidently I stumble over a tweet this morning, mentioning that Gladinet Cload Desktop can use all my storage and the new “any file type” in Google Docs. Late last year I extended my storage to 20GB, so I decided to give it a go.
Like it a lot. But perhaps to early to draw any conclusions. Nice to be able use my additional storage at Google more easily. Some pictures perhaps.
Quite a few supported providers… user/password mostly all that was needed.
Google Docs was the one most interesting for me.
Select and filter which folders you want to sync to a cloud target. Instant or scheduled. Me like.
After the initial scan of the configured folders the new drive is snappy to navigate. Cache is king.
When you open large files for the first time you will suffer from the remote download. Not very surprising. Below is a sample upload of a 25MB video, notice the crappy uplink speed from my ADSL service ;)
Got some annoying errors when trying to connect after the installation. Needed to add the “Desktop Experience” feature before I was able to connect anywhere. But after a speedy update and a reboot everything worked fine. Thanks Google Search ;)
Perhaps Gladinet should update their error page with this specific case?
Hope to give you more feedback in a few weeks.
Great statement. I'll try to think if this in the future....
Seth's Blog: When I want your opinion, I'll ask for it.After some discussion about how we could improve the weekly homework for our 12y old, I introduced the tool I use myself. Personal Kanban.
With a few adjustments from “Traditional Personal Kanban” (is there such a thing?) and much curiosity from the 12y old we started a few days ago.
The 12y old have the freedom to choose days for her tasks. With very few restriction… like… it’s not “optimal” to do all five “15 minutes guitar practice” tasks on the same day. She wanted to put all tasks up in the start of the week, but we alse talked about leaving them in the “To Do” column until started upon.
We noted if any specific subject have a “deadline day”. Math always to be completed until Monday for example. (Easy now when each week looks the same).
Any additional “none weekly task” could be added if she need to keep track on it.
It’s still the first week, but the first impression from us and the 12y old are really positive. She finds it satisfying to move tasks to the “Done” slot, just like me ;)
On Sunday we will reset the Kanban and start all over again. Perhaps a small retrospective… nah… not this time ;)
This could really work!
But no changes have been made to Spotify according to Andres @ Spotify
“We've made no changes to Spotify and there is nothing infecting it. It's possible that it's a false positive which we've seen before from anti-virus programs.” (http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/spotify_defined_as_a_trojan_by_symantec)
Well… no music at work kind of sucks.
