Joel Spolsky's company (Fog Creek Software) just moved in to a new office. I'm jealous! Most software managers know what good office space would be like, and they know they don't have it, and can't have it. Office space seems to be the one thing that nobody can get right and nobody can do anything about. There's a ten year lease, and whenever the company moves the last person anybody asks about how to design the space is the manager of the software team, who finds out what his new veal-fattening pens, uh, cubicle farm is going to be like…
I mentioned earlier that my copy of SyncIT was giving me fits and for some reason had erased ALL of my bookmarks. I was also frustrated by a total lack of information, updates, or news from the people running the site. Submitted a support request only resulting in a database error. Today I received an e-mail from the company explaining their problems: We realize we haven't been doing a very good job of explaining our situation to you. … The short version is that our extremely expensive, supposedly fully redundant database machine has failed catastrophically. We do not have enough…
Via PalmInfocenter, I learned about SmbMate which provides access to SMB servers from your Palm device. I've just tried it on my Tungsten C over 802.11 and it works well. File transfer speeds were not great, but that may be due to my older SD card.
Check out Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List for a long list of useful developer tools. Lots of .Net stuff in there (which I'm not using yet), but there are some new ones like BootDisk.com which contains boot images for old versions of DOS and Windows. [Via Ned Batchelder]
Updated 2003-12-04: Pointing to the correct schedule for 2004 NASCAR today released the final schedule for Nextel Cup racing in 2004. Time to start making plans! I'm going to miss the name “Winston Cup” — “Nextel Cup” just doesn't sound right. 2004 Schedule [Via Racing One]