Cross-platform, collaborative, versioned, web-accessible file and folder sharing. If this ends up being half as good as it looks, it could ultimately make my life a LOT easier.
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A while back my friend Jeremy told me about a little tool he used for importing music from his iPod into his iTunes library called Senuti. He mentioned it as a way of getting around iTunes content DRM issues. When you buy media from the iTunes store, the DRM it comes with will only allow you to transfer it a certain number of times before it disables it. Well, I’ve transferred my stuff enough times that I was beginning to worry that I might be getting close, and I had a need to transfer my stuff again, so I decided to take a look at Senuti.So, since I got my MacBook Pro, I’ve sort of put off the task of trying to get all of my media transferred to the new laptop. The idea of backing up my iTunes library on my old PC laptop, and then importing it all (over 15GB worth of data) over the network into my iTunes library on the new laptop just did not sound appealing at all. So then I remembered about Senuti, and how it would let me import everything directly from my iPod. My only question was whether or not it would have any issues with the fact that my iPod was formatted for Windows and not a Mac. According to the FAQ, there had never been any reported issues with this. Apparently it would work just fine with Windows formatted iPods. Sweet! So last night I gave it a shot. I was very pleased with the outcome.
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I shared this yesterday, but I just don’t think that’s enough to give it the nod that it deserves.Code review is an essential part of any good software development process. The problem with it is that it can be a very tedious and sometimes painful process if not done correctly. This is the reason that a lot of organizations just choose not to do it at all.
Fortunately, over the past couple of years, a few tools have come on the scene that make code reviews much more efficient and much less painful. My hope is that this will encourage more organizations to make code reviews a more common part of their software development processes. The most recent one that I heard of was just yesterday, and its called Review Board. Its web based, and uses changesets taken from the version control system that it is integrated with (yes, you have to be using version control too…and if you’re not, you really should be) to organize reviews.
It appears to work very similarly to Crucible, which I’ve become very fond of, but it hasn’t been around the block as many times, so its not quite as mature. The most notable difference between the two is the price: Crucible is fairly expensive, while Review Board is open source, and thus, free.
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WARNING: What follows is a rant. If you don’t feel like listening to me complain about my problems with Windows Vista, you should probably just skip this one.
I’ve been using Windows Vista for…oohhh…I dunno, about a year now or so, something like that. The experience has been…uuummm…OK. There are some things about it that I like, and definitely some things about it that I don’t like. One thing that I will say for certain though, is that there is one thing that I don’t like about it SO much, that it may just end up being the deciding factor of whether or not I continue using Vista or not.
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Computers are so unreliable. You’d think that with as long as I’ve been working with computers that I would’ve learned my lesson by now and gotten some sort of reliable backup and recovery plan in place at home. Unfortunately, if you did think that, you’d be wrong.I’ve said for a long time that I was going to get some sort of plan in place. As a matter of fact, I’ve been working on writing my own application for backing up data off and on for quite a while now (I’ve run into a few snags that I’ve not been able to figure out how to get working, which is why its not done yet, but that’s another story for another time). Anyway, the system disk on my server at home crashed last week, which is why Yexley.Net was down for a while.
