This recent thread on The Business of Software forum caught my attention. It’s an interesting discussion but it was more interesting say 5+ years ago before SaaS products had really taken off (and proven themselves…). I get the shakes when I think about going back to using an email client like Outlook instead of Google [...]
Just encountered this issue with SVN when trying to update the repository: URL ‘https://example.com/development’ of existing directory ‘c:\example\development’ does not match expected URL ‘https://example.com/development’ This error was the result of some playing around I did with setting up SVN on a different machine and using uppercase letters instead of all lowercase when I was importing [...]
Updated on the 2nd of August, ’11: Recent versions of VirtualBox have changed the way the cloning works, so the instructions below no longer work. Never fear, some smart chap has built a GUI application to handle the cloning and as an added bonus it also lets you decided if you want to generate a new UUID or keep [...]
Well, that depends on your definition of free. In Stack Exchange 1.0 you could pay them a monthly fee to setup your own Stack Exchange site, on your own domain, and you were free to use it for whatever you liked. In Stack Exchange 2.0 you no longer have to pay them a monthly fee [...]
Windows XP is the new DOS. A piece of legacy software which hangs around forever and elicits a “I had no idea companies still used XP” reaction from the new IT guy, twenty years after it was supposed to be replaced by something better.
January 14th, 2009, marks the day that Google grew up. In a coordinated series of blog postings Google announced its intention to scuttle a number of its poor performing products, let go of some staff and close some of its offices — showing that in 2009 it intends to focus on keeping costs down and [...]
Not only is broadband expensive in Australia, but it is also slow. Slow, as in painfully-slow. In comparison to other developed countries like America, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and so on, it is appalling. But what is really annoying about all of this is that it is not necessary — our Internet connection speeds are stuck in [...]
I’ll admit it upfront: I’m a lousy Twitterer. I try to give it a go every month or so by tweeting frequently, replying to other peoples tweets and generally participating, but then I usually drop off the face of the twitter-earth within a day or two — mostly because I find that it consumes too [...]
Cuil has received a lot of bad press over the past few months. Unfortunately, much of it deserved. I hadn’t used Cuil since it was launched but after it’s spider visited one of my websites (and proceeded to trigger a bunch of 404′s by looking for files that are long gone — a mistake that [...]
The long saga that is Omnidrive appears to be over. For those of you who don’t know, Omndrive was an Australian startup that offered free online file storage and had some early success. I have been a registered user of Omndrive for around three years, although I haven’t actively used it in about two years. [...]