Will Apple come to rescue my productivity? I purchased a Dell Inspiron 1720 about 11-12 months ago. It has been a perfectly awesome laptop until about 2-3 months ago. The specs on the machine are decent, 2+ghz proc, dual core, 4 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, Decent Video, etc. Lately though the machine has done... Continue reading →

I was talking with a co-worker recently. He had stumbled onto Scott Hanselman’s Blog. We started talking about the major blogs that could/should/probably be read on a regular basis and what information they provide. I came up with a top 5 blogs that I read and did a really short write up of each. If... Continue reading →

The new project is going to require multiple OS, Browser, and Office versions support. This is just a list of my ideal platforms to test for. In other words, “What I find acceptable to build modern platform tools to”. OS – OS-X, Linux, Windows Vista, and Windows XP (In order of growing priority, with the... Continue reading →

I had my imagination stumble into a scenario recently based on Jeremy Miller’s blog entry “My Game Plan for Starting a Project from Scratch“. Imagine a development project where you get to start everything from scratch. Imagine you can setup everything properly from the test servers to the virtual environment to the development platform to... Continue reading →