Blog
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Google Apps for your Domain - the IT revolution starts here...
I mentioned in my last entry that I thought that Google were making serious headway in the productivity software space. What did I mean by this? Well take a moment to think about what 90% of computer users use their humble beige boxes for 90% of the time. I'll give you a clue - email, browsing, scheduling, and reading or writing documents. Occasionally there's some spreadsheet, presentation and planning tools in there too, but actually most of what people do is those first 4.
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Switching to the white side
A little over 4 years ago I saw an iPod for the first time. It was a 1st generation 'moving wheel' 5GB model. I knew then it was the mp3 player I'd been looking for, but it had one major flaw - you could only copy music on to it with an Apple Mac. I'd never so much as touched the keyboard of a Mac and was not about to now, no matter how good the iPod was. I dutifully waited, hoping that Steve Jobs would do the unthinkable, and support PC users.
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Tree Surgeon has moved, and Google Code
I have moved Tree Surgeon to Google Code and Google Groups - its new home is http://code.google.com/p/treesurgeon/, and the mailing list is now at http://groups.google.com/group/treesurgeon. This applies to mailing lists, source code, issue tracking and file releases. Tree Surgeon is my open source project that generates a stub .NET development tree.
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CruiseControl.NET 1.1 Released
CruiseControl.NET 1.1 was released this week. I've been taking a bit of a back seat on the project in recent months, but it's been good to see a number of other people stepping up and getting involved, plus of course Owen Rogers continues to provide project leadership.
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The universe conspires for us
As anyone who knows me understands, I've faced some challenges over the last couple of years. One or two I've mentioned on this blog, most I haven't.
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JCB vs Astramax? You decide
Apparently the world has a new fastest diesel vehicle - the JCB DIESELMAX. I'm not convinced. Everyone knows the fastest diesel, on the motorway at least, is the Astramax van. I should know, I drove one for a couple of years. Mine wasn't white, but I was still a fully paid-up resident of the outside lane. Oh, those heady days....
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Cliffs, Colorado, and cameras
Short post this one - in the last couple of weeks I went to Fort Tyron Park in New York and Crested Butte in Colorado, and of course took photos. One new thing though, these photos were taken with my new Nikon D50 Digital SLR camera. Now I just have to figure out how to take good looking photos without just cheating and using the automatic modes.
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Minuit - The Guards Themselves
One of the things I enjoyed about my time living in New Zealand was the music scene there. Since NZ is so isolated (geographically at least) from the rest of the world, they have a somewhat alternative way of doing things when it comes to bands. People there have this quaint thought (!) that its actually quite nice to go and see your favourite bands play live, and not have to be a million rows back in the crowd, or have to ring Ticketmaster like crazy at 9am on the day the tickets come out, or have to go cap in hand to a less than celubrious chap shouting 'Buying! Selling!' outside the venue on the night of the gig. Add this to the fact that not that many international bands come a-visiting, and its not surprising that you find NZ makes its own music scene.
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The power of a fast build
When I build the project I currently work on, I smile every time I see the last 2 lines:
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Team City vs. CruiseControl.NET
I'm a big fan of JetBrains. Their IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, which I first used 5 years ago, I think was the biggest step forward in code-editting productivity since the Smalltalk browser, and they continue to innovate on this idea while adding similar products in the .NET world with ReSharper.