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.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
iPhoto / iPhone madness
Yesterday Ange needed some help to get some photo's for a project that she was working on in iMovie. Simple I said... just shoot what you want on my iPhone and I'll suck them in. I figured since were talking all Apple hardware and software the whole proces would take ten minutes and she's be ready to go.
Wrong...
It appears that somewhere along the line apple has done a number of updates to some combination of IOS (Which being a developer I keep fully up to date.) iMovie, OSX and / or some bit in between. Now at the time I connected the iPhone iTunes helpfully informed me that there was a new IOS update. I had just performed the last update a week or so ago to IOS 4.3.2 and considering we had people arriving at out house I didn't have time to get everything done.
So I skipped the IOS update and plugged my Phone into the PC, Started iPhoto to pull down the photos, and... nothing. The iPhone didn't appear as a device and had no option to connect to iPhoto. Did a search on the internet and apparently a lot of people have had that issue as well. I ended up doing things the round-a-bout way of sending the photo's and video's to Mobile Me and then syncing them down to iPhoto.
As it turns out after downloading updates for all of my IOS devices, iPhone, IPad, iPod, and updating my iMac, I was finally able to pull the rest of the photos and video's over to my iMac via the USB connection cable.
Wrong...
It appears that somewhere along the line apple has done a number of updates to some combination of IOS (Which being a developer I keep fully up to date.) iMovie, OSX and / or some bit in between. Now at the time I connected the iPhone iTunes helpfully informed me that there was a new IOS update. I had just performed the last update a week or so ago to IOS 4.3.2 and considering we had people arriving at out house I didn't have time to get everything done.
So I skipped the IOS update and plugged my Phone into the PC, Started iPhoto to pull down the photos, and... nothing. The iPhone didn't appear as a device and had no option to connect to iPhoto. Did a search on the internet and apparently a lot of people have had that issue as well. I ended up doing things the round-a-bout way of sending the photo's and video's to Mobile Me and then syncing them down to iPhoto.
As it turns out after downloading updates for all of my IOS devices, iPhone, IPad, iPod, and updating my iMac, I was finally able to pull the rest of the photos and video's over to my iMac via the USB connection cable.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Another week down
Another week down. Less then three weeks to go before we head out to the US. We've managed to clear almost all of the pavers out of the area to prepare for the new liquid lime stone. After that is done we have the back breaking job of moving sand to try and level out the area.
Monday, April 4, 2011
IOS Updates
Plugged in my iPad, Apple wants to update it.
Plugged in my iPod, Apple wants to update it.
Plugged in my iPhone, Apple wants to update it.
Now in the progress of updating the iPhone. Hopefully everything goes smoothly and everything resolves without problems. Of course the only people that I recall having issues with iPhone updates have been people doing updates on Windows. Of course Apple has a vested interest in making sure that everything goes smoothly on all Apple hardware. Anyway if things don't go well then I'll be none to happy.
Plugged in my iPod, Apple wants to update it.
Plugged in my iPhone, Apple wants to update it.
Now in the progress of updating the iPhone. Hopefully everything goes smoothly and everything resolves without problems. Of course the only people that I recall having issues with iPhone updates have been people doing updates on Windows. Of course Apple has a vested interest in making sure that everything goes smoothly on all Apple hardware. Anyway if things don't go well then I'll be none to happy.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Getting ready for the trip
Well the trip is about 30 days away. There is now less tim to go till the trip then I will spend in America. Every day brings the trip closer and closer. So I decided to give the web site a new facelift, and a new blog to populate some stuff.
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