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Google, Samsung; this is why I am leaving you for Apple
— 2 months 1 week ago
OK, I have been looking for a way to break it to Samsung and Google, but since sooner or later I will have to explain the smile on my mug, and the spring in my step (once the IPS, sorry UPS carrier delivers this baby)… Here it goes:
The rebel in me won the day last spring when I refused to buy and iPad2 and even went ahead to replace my iPhone 3G with a Samsung Infuse. I swore that I had...
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A vision for making flexible and extensible content architecture in the WorkEtc CRM framework
— 2 months 2 weeks ago
The new custom fields and views are a great addition and could be the foundation to making WorkEtc a framework for configuring CRM and PM solutions for many fields and uses. I have been reviewing famed applications like SugarCRM, ZenDesk, VTigerCRM, and the lot from 37 signals, and I see many reasons to thank Dan and his team for the vision that they are pursuing. For instance, when playing with...
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Double Standards: How we can get corralled to excuse some, and resist others
— 2 months 4 weeks ago
It is funny, strange, and sometimes disappointing how, if a company (like Google) makes a decision that is inconvenient to us in the short-terms, many brand it as draconian, unfair, selfish etc. But if it is Apple, the most we do is mention how it does not work right now, but is a visionary decision that is a foundation for something greater.
Google is consolidating the TOS document to allow...
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Relationship between a business opportunity and resultant projects in WorkEtc and any good CRM/PM Tool
— 3 months 3 days ago
This is a continuation/rant of a post that I just made on the WorkEtc review forum - http://admin.worketc.com/Community/Forums?Message=5660
The relationship between opportunities and projects is becoming cleaner with this version update. However, it could still use some more structure. In my view, if an opportunity has an estimate field, and projects are normally created and assigned as...
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Never-happening OS updates, and why I left Samsung Infuse for an iPhone 4S
— 3 months 1 week ago
As an early adopter of things, I have had my share (and then some) of frustration with the whole AT...
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Take responsibility and blame often... svn blame
— 3 months 2 weeks ago
Here is something trivial to some, but that I do not do as much as anyone interested in knowing what is happening should do... Blame.
To be honest, I have never used svn blame and often gravitate towards more complex and less effective approaches like diff'ing between versions and then praying before doing a merge (on the rare occasions that I do merge).
Blame allows you to see all the...
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Vet what you recommend to avoid diluting your brand: Beanstalk and FeedsApp
— 3 months 3 weeks ago
I really like, trust and use Beanstalk. However, I may have had some blind trust when I decided to run and buy FeedsApp (mentioned in this post). I am disappointed and have requested a refund from Apple for the following reasons:
Does not support generic feeds
Means that I have to pay just to use this on Beanstalk (do not use any of the other supported sources). Worse, that means that I have...
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Rendering all the images in a selected directory using PHP - not just listing the index
— 3 months 3 weeks ago
Trying to browser a very big list of image files with serial names to if a directory that I just recovered using #scalpel for #ubuntu contains the files that I deleted http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=170460 has a nice solution. NB: to display display files, I found it easier to create an .htaccess file and add the line:
Options +Indexes
I went ahead and modified the code to...
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Beanstalk Version Control finally revamping Deployments
— 4 months 20 hours ago
I have been using Beanstalk SVN (by WILDBIT) for quite a while (going two years now) and I cannot emphasize enough how good the service is. Simply, since it is reliable, and it is not hosted by me means that when my server collapses (which is when one really needs to browse the archives), I can rest assured that my version-control system is isolated from the disaster. I can claim with some...
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Are these deficiencies in SVN 'move' or inbuilt protections?
— 4 months 2 days ago
I am reading about doing SVN copy, move and merge from the commandline so as to better master all the switches and understand exactly what my GUI client is doing, and allow me to work just as well with and without a GUI client. I see a comment in the Redbook manual - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.moves
"A lesser-known fact about...
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Buying beautiful but unstable software, and putting up with it - Panic Coda
— 4 months 2 days ago
This is becoming legendary!
I like Panic Coda very much, I believe strongly that it is worth the $99 that I paid for it several years ago, and I have liked the unobtrusive simplicity that it brings to Web Development. That said, the instability that I have been experiencing with this software is legendary for an OSX application. It is a major stumbling block. I used to blame my MacBook (Tiger,...
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Must remember to set the correct permissions for scripts to run from crontab
— 4 months 2 days ago
Now here is a simple but blocking omission that I keep making ... I keep writing bash scripts and placing them in the crontab queue then forgetting to make the script file executable. After being puzzle for a little while, getting "command not found" error, I just remembered to chmod 755 scriptname.sh and everything is back to normal Objective I am working on a way to update my DEV...
