Saturday, February 25, 2012
Another facelift
Well, I'm not happy overall with the look of the web page, so I am looking into replacing the web page with something else. iWeb is pretty easy to use, but overall I'm not happy with the web layout. More to follow when I finish downloading everything for Web Matrix.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Looks can be deceiving
So looking back at the Blog it looks pretty slim for a blog that has been running, in one for or another, for the past 10 years. Of course clearing out the old posts and moving it back and forth doesn't help. I should see about getting my photo of the day images to post here.
Alive
Yes I am alive. The blog has been quite neglected over the past year with the trip back to the use, and coming back up to speed with work.
In the time away I have updated my laptop, my iPad and my iPhone.
The new Laptop is a Macbook Air. Current top of the line model. I can honestly say this is the best laptop that I have owned. WIth a bit of caution I can manage to get the battery to last a full working day. Being a Macbook Air it's also feather light, which is a major point in it's favor as being a consultant I live out of a backpack. The i7 processor generally has grunt to spare, and the 4 gig of RAM is sufficient for the normal taks that I do from day to day. Generally speaking major development tasks are done on a client desktop of virtual server so the moderate specks aren't a major hindrance for me. Storage wise I have 250 gig flash drive, which makes swapping out to disk nearly as fast as reading from memory. I'm able to run Windows 7 in a VM and in most cases don't notice any slow down from when it's running natively. Also I have been able to successfully run WIndows Server 2008 with SQL Server, CRM, and SharePoint. THe major pain point is running it off of a USB connected hard disk, which isn't the best experience...
The iPhone is currently the 4S. While the specks are better, and the camera is quite good, there really isn't honestly a compelling reason to upgrade at this stage. Don't get me wrong, the phone is great, but the added features probably aren't worth the reduced battery life at this stage. I get at max about a day and a half, however I have absolutely everything turned on. Location Services, WiFi, 3G, FindMyPhone, iCLoud, iCLoud Backup. About the only thing I don't run is BluTooth.
The iPad update took me to the new iPad 2, top of the line model 3G/WiFi model. This was a really good upgrade. While the iPad 1 was a great device, the added grunt, additional storage, etc are really nice. I also love the fact that it's thinner then the original.
Work these days is predominantly Microsoft CRM 2011 focused. More on this later.
Yes, I make my money on Microsoft products and I use Apple hardware. In fact I spend most of my time in OSX. This doesn't make me an Apple Fanboi. Use what fits the task best.
In the time away I have updated my laptop, my iPad and my iPhone.
The new Laptop is a Macbook Air. Current top of the line model. I can honestly say this is the best laptop that I have owned. WIth a bit of caution I can manage to get the battery to last a full working day. Being a Macbook Air it's also feather light, which is a major point in it's favor as being a consultant I live out of a backpack. The i7 processor generally has grunt to spare, and the 4 gig of RAM is sufficient for the normal taks that I do from day to day. Generally speaking major development tasks are done on a client desktop of virtual server so the moderate specks aren't a major hindrance for me. Storage wise I have 250 gig flash drive, which makes swapping out to disk nearly as fast as reading from memory. I'm able to run Windows 7 in a VM and in most cases don't notice any slow down from when it's running natively. Also I have been able to successfully run WIndows Server 2008 with SQL Server, CRM, and SharePoint. THe major pain point is running it off of a USB connected hard disk, which isn't the best experience...
The iPhone is currently the 4S. While the specks are better, and the camera is quite good, there really isn't honestly a compelling reason to upgrade at this stage. Don't get me wrong, the phone is great, but the added features probably aren't worth the reduced battery life at this stage. I get at max about a day and a half, however I have absolutely everything turned on. Location Services, WiFi, 3G, FindMyPhone, iCLoud, iCLoud Backup. About the only thing I don't run is BluTooth.
The iPad update took me to the new iPad 2, top of the line model 3G/WiFi model. This was a really good upgrade. While the iPad 1 was a great device, the added grunt, additional storage, etc are really nice. I also love the fact that it's thinner then the original.
Work these days is predominantly Microsoft CRM 2011 focused. More on this later.
Yes, I make my money on Microsoft products and I use Apple hardware. In fact I spend most of my time in OSX. This doesn't make me an Apple Fanboi. Use what fits the task best.
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