What’s in your iPhone

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So what is taking up space on your iPhone. I’ve ended up deleting many apps and those that remain have earned it. Here is a brief list of what’s in my on my iPhone

• Twitterific
• Pandora
• Appigo ToDo
• Link to Google
• Wurdle
• aSleep
• Newtons cradle
• Link to gyminee
• Blogwriter
• eWallet
• Tic Tac Free
• Liquid pack
• Holdem
• Crash Kart
• 21 Pro: Blackjack

I have a few others like PacMan but they all don’t get enough use for mention

What’s in your iPhone.

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– Post From My iPhone

Bite Size: Code Review with Jupiter Plugin

Jupiter is an eclipse plug-in designed specifically to coordinate code reviews across teams. The plug-in provides a basic procedure for managing the code review process. I’ve posted a document on Scribd that describes how to use this great tool to manage your code review processes.

View Code Review with Jupiter on Scribd

Bite Size: ToDo List with RememberTheMilk.com

Being a rather scatterbrained person, I’m always looking for ways to stay on track and keep organized. After working with the Franklin Covey system and GTD productivity systems the main thing I found lacking was integration with my digital life. Remember The Milk is a great solution for managing all your ToDos.

Right off the bat, RTM manages simple Task lists with no configuration needed. It manages tasks with due dates and even locations. These tasks can be organized into lists for easier management.  The customization features allow you to set up lists, categories and reminders to match whatever productivity system you ascribe to.

The real benefit of the system is it’s wide variety of integration options. The system integrates with many popular applications and sites. Do you use GMail and Google Calendar? RTM integrates right into the flow. There are also a variety of desktop application integration points. My personal favorites are the ability to email tasks to RTM to be added to your list. My wife emails me simple ToDo items like “Pick up milk on the way home” that show up right on top of my daily ToDo list. When I’m in the store if i forget what she asked for I just jump on to RTM with the iPhone integration and quickly see what I missed.

This is a great tool that everyone should check out.

Coffee Notes: IT Roadmaps

What are roadmaps and why are they important? You hear it all the time, Vendor Roadmap, Technology Roadmap, Application Roadmap, Portfolio Roadmap.

In short a road map is just what it sounds like. It’s a definition of what’s ahead, and it’s really important. Every other part of a business plans for the future, IT has historically been reactive, waiting for feature requests, waiting for issues to fix etc. Oh and before you flame me, by waiting I’m not suggesting sitting around twiddling your thumbs, I’m an IT guy and I know that’s not the case, what I mean is that we’re all too busy trying to fix the issues that came in at 3am to think about tomorrow.

Say I have an application running on Websphere and I know the next version of websphere is due out in a year, what is my plan for the app, when should I migrate it, is there a new version of Oracle coming out 4 months later, maybe I should wait.

Creating roadmaps for each technology in your suite helps map how the progression of each change effects the entire stream.

The IT field is not a maintenance free realm. Planing the progression of your technologies now will save you tons down the road.