Comments for Useful Little Things

Comment on Windows 7 for my Media Center PC by Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:24:51 +0000

wait… im a student. cool.

Comment on Amazing Grace by Nettie Drew

Nettie Drew — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:49:49 +0000

God gives us all wonderful things, mine has been and is, outstanding
neices and nephews. I am soooooo proud of them.

Carla did a beautiful job.

Comment on Announcing the Red Dot Calendar by Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:23:07 +0000

I’m up for giving it a try. A reminder would be nice.

Comment on Gmail, Bills, and Labels by Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:21:28 +0000

Too bad you can’t automate creating the specific due date. That would be cool. But I guess for this scenario you already know the exact due date and it’s not changing.

Neat idea though. Very useful.

Comment on GoJava: Lessons on Writing Java Applications for GoDaddy Shared Hosting by admin

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:31:43 +0000

That’s really a question of price. If I were just tinkering around with something that I’m not serious about and I didn’t care about downtime or quality of service… I would go with GoDaddy because they’re cheap.

On the other hand, if I cared about (or needed) quality, reliability, and service… I would go with a different provider. Right now, that provider is WebFaction. I haven’t outgrown them, yet. I may never.

Comment on GoJava: Lessons on Writing Java Applications for GoDaddy Shared Hosting by Andy W

Andy W — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:32:51 +0000

Wow, this writeup is a goldmine for me. I’m just getting started and it’s as though I’ve been driving at night in the pitch dark. You article at least turned on the headlights for me.

You’ve got me wondering now, if you were starting off again would use GoDaddy or would go with someone akin to WebFaction from the get-go.

It apperas that WebFaction may have addressed many of the limitations you found at GoDaddy.

Comment on A Critical Examination of Evidence-Based Scheduling by admin

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:56:43 +0000

Bruce,

Good points. You’re right that the paper doesn’t compare EBS to other alternatives. I tried to focus on how well EBS might fit into any arbitrary organization. As for how EBS handles being wrong… In theory, it self-adjusts for future projects but does nothing for the current project. Here’s a place that I disagree with Joel. He says in his articles that a block of padding is added to the project to account for stuff like this. I think this is too loose an approach.

Comment on A Critical Examination of Evidence-Based Scheduling by Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:06:44 +0000

Russell,

the paper seems ok as far as a review of EBS goes, but doesn’t put EBS into context alongside other alternatives used for traditional plan-based software development. Also, I just skimmed this, but there didn’t seem to be evidence about how well it stood up to other solutions on offer, which would be interesting to see. Lastly, what happens when the estimate is wrong? Sorry, couldn’t resist, as tend toward agile, lean and evo approaches in this stuff.

Comment on Windows 7 Release Candidate on a Lenovo X41 Thinkpad Tablet PC by admin

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:11:55 +0000

I never did get the other buttons working. And then I installed Ubuntu and stopped worrying about it.

Comment on Windows 7 Release Candidate on a Lenovo X41 Thinkpad Tablet PC by kirby

kirby — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:20:39 +0000

were you able to get the hotkeys to work? i’ve installed win7 on my x41 and everything is great except that the hotkeys are not working (except for the volume buttons)…