http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog Blogs About Technology, GTD and Life Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:04:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Background Anyone who uses Outlook tasks and notes and an iPhone knows the pain of not being able to sync tasks and notes over-the-air from Exchange to the iPhone. I was surprised when I first realized that the Exchange client oin the iPhone only syncs email, calendar and contacts and does ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=204 Who doesn’t have clothes in their closet that they never wear? It is hard to decide what I will not wear and therefore should donate, but fortunately, I learned a trick that I can turn hangers backwards for all clothing for which I don’t think I will wear. ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=190 At Adobe MAX last month, Adobe announced the Mosaic alpha release (to a beta community). It is a composite rich internet application product that allows organizations to integrate and mash up their Flash/Flex, HTML and 3rd party web applications. Mosaic is part of Adobe's approach to building next generation rich ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=183 Extreme Programming (XP) defines a concept called a spike. A spike is an activity to find out answers to a touch technical or design problem. Extremeprogramming.org defines a spike as: Create spike solutions to figure out answers to tough technical or design problems. A spike solution is a very simple program ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=172 There are differences in evaluating and comparing open source software (OSS) products, as opposed to commercial packages. A number of key OSS criteria are also described. This information is based on years of experience at Redpoint , using OSS and evaluating both open source and commercial software for clients. Evaluating OSS ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=163 At Redpoint Technologies, we've been evaluating many of the services offered by leading cloud vendors in order to better understand where various cloud offerings are most appropriate. Like any technology, it is important to understand each offering's strengths and weaknesses. Today I executed some crude performance tests against the Rack Space ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=136 Some of you are blessed with the ability to drink coffee or tea at temperatures that seem to be approaching the temperature of lava. Unfortunately, I'm always trying to find ice or cold water to cool down my drink whether I just brewed it at home or bought coffee from ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=113 For Christmas my wife and kids bought me an iHome iPhone alarm clock. My first impression was good, I thought it would be nice to have a home for my phone at night and be able to listen to music in our bedroom. [caption id="attachment_111" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="iHome Alarm Clock"][/caption] But, what ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=109 Late last month (November 18, 2008), Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the public beta of a new service for content delivery. The new Cloud Computing service, CloudFront, provides developers an easy way to distribute HTTP content to end users with minimal latency delays and provides high data transfer speeds. CloudFront ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=100 It seems the excitement and use of Class, Responsibility, Collaboration (CRC) cards has diminished over the years. But with an emphasis on agile development approaches, it seems there is a rise in simple, yet powerful approaches that are low tech. The barrier to entry for CRC cards is pretty low...you ... http://www.matthewtmead.com/blog/?p=74