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Comment on Why I Hate Frameworks by links for 2008-01-19 « Internet Alchemy

links for 2008-01-19 « Internet Alchemy — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:24:19 +0000

[...] benjismith.net Â» Blog Archive Â» Why I Hate Frameworks “Everyone is using a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory now, whenever they need a hammer?” (tags: article criticism humour frameworks software) Share this:TwitterRedditFacebookDiggLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

Comment on Business Intelligence for Desktop Software by benjismith.net » Blog Archive » Desktop Analytics: The Embeddable Library

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:57:49 +0000

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Comment on Concept to Product in 30 Days!! by benjismith.net » Blog Archive » Business Intelligence for Desktop Software

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:57:34 +0000

[...] crap! I’m currently in the process of designing and building a product in 30 days. A whole bunch of other software developers are doing the same thing, at the same time, during June [...]

Comment on Why I Hate Frameworks by Finally Onto WPF at New Fun Blog – Scott Bilas

Finally Onto WPF at New Fun Blog – Scott Bilas — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:07:08 +0000

[...] it’s not difficult to pick up. There’s some crazy complicated 20-levels-deep-stack logic that makes it all work under the hood, but the end result is that you just cover your eyes and type [...]

Comment on Calamity! by How good are your backups? « Successful Software

How good are your backups? « Successful Software — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:09:33 +0000

[...] having multiple forms of backup. If you think backing up to a single USB disk is enough you should read this. If you are relying purely on an third party online backup service you should consider what would [...]

Comment on Idea #1: WebDelve: Small Business Web Analytics by stock market software

stock market software — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:01:17 +0000

stock market software…

Any idea if there are similar blogs like this related to stock market software?…

Comment on Eternity II is here!! by Miquel

Miquel — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:09:09 +0000

I haver order the game, but it will take 2-3 weeks to arrive. Does anybody has a list of the pieces in a txt file? I will be very gratefully mcubel@gmail.com

Comment on Calamity! by Andy

Andy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:47:51 +0000

Strangely enough the hard drive on my 3 years old laptop crashed a couple of weeks ago. For some miraculous reasons I was testing my very own Online Backup product that works on top of Amazon S3 and I backed up the folder with my most important documents. I wish I backed up all of them! Once the disk crashed I restored my files having development team to fix some issues along the way and I could continue my work in a couple of hours. This sounds like promotion and it is really is, but it really helps to backup up your data regularly offsite. It also worth mentioning that a repair shop asked me for $1 000 to get my data back from the hard drive and they will need about a week to work with it … and you have to visit their shop losing another couple of hours.
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Comment on Calamity! by stu

stu — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:36:40 +0000

I feel your pain Benji. Been there done that. I now label all my drives with the month and year I purchased them – and I try to stagger the purchases and use different brands to avoid a potentially bad batch from a single vendor – and I plan to rotate them after about 3 years. I back up my backups now on both hard disk as well as optical media (dual layer DVDs, planning to migrate to blue-ray). I also use shadow protect for my backups – best software there is. It will do a bare metal restore on a new disk, or even completely different machine direct from your backups. You can schedule incremental backups as frequently as every 15mins. This is a great saviour if you accidentally overwrite something from earlier in the day. Can’t recommend it enough.

Comment on Calamity! by Peter Harkins

Peter Harkins — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:36:20 +0000

I would think two drives would fail within a day of one another. Not just general Murphy’s Law pessimism, but lots of things like brownouts, power spikes, fire, theft, water damage, and rampaging children can destroy a coupe hard drives.

I’ll chime in as another fan of JungleDisk, and I’m sorry for your data loss.