So.. eight years after my first smartphone (the glorious Orange SPV) and after a year of reluctant use of a 3G iPhone, I finally invested in an Android phone, the HTC Desire. The short review is - it’s great, I really like it, it’s not perfect, but it’s got a lot going for it.
Since [...]
I’ve been using foursquare for a while now, and, inspired by Tony’s post, there are a few features I’ve love to see implemented either by them or one of their competitors in this space (foursquare, gowalla, brightkite, urbanspoon, dopplr, tripit, latitude).
Optional automatic check in when I’ve stayed in one place for more than, say [...]
If you’re using Excel Web Access (from Excel Services 2010) and you get the error “An error has occurred. Please try again”.. maybe check that Excel Calculation Services (as distinct from the Excel Services Services Application) is running.
So.. Barcamp Sydney was a great day, hosted at the Australian Technology Park. The unorganisers did a tremendous job, and in true barcamp style the eclectic crowd were very entertained, and entertaining.
A few personal highlights:
Google Wave introduction by Alex from the local dev team - great to get first hand insights
A great introduction to #Gov2AU, [...]
So, I watched through the Google Wave Video and I have to say I’m pretty impressed. Maybe not quite as impressed as the Google I/O audience, but impressed nonetheless.
My highlights were:
the ntalk style asynchronous conversations (/email/documents), and the whole federated distribution model which makes it possible.
Document component building - so difficult to do now with [...]
So.. I got a new computer at work the other day, and I looked for a list of things to remember when migrating settings from one laptop to another, I couldn’t find one so here’s mine. I’m moving from Vista to Vistax64 so not much to report.
Firefox settings come across in their entirety using the [...]
I’d not been to barcamp before - here’s a rundown!
@voirol delivered an impassioned case for custom CMS development (as in completely proprietary) - which seems vaguely compelling for a small organisation, but scary in terms of TCO and maintainablity. He made a fine point on throwawayability, and the benefits of ‘do just what it needs [...]
We went to look at Wisdom, an exhibition by Andrew Zuckerman at the State Library. It was really quite bad, which was a shame. The idea was great, the photos good, the participants mainly worthy (Willie Nelson - WTF?), but the curation was just plain mad. The photos were in the middle, with numbers, the [...]
So, we had a great lunch today at Coffee Cup on Crown (just up from Blank Space) - it’s a fine addition to the area’s eateries. Anyway… they’re doing DIY breakfast from Monday - all the toast you can eat - you toast it yourself, organic breads galore and condiments aplenty. Seems like a bold [...]