Well. Here I am. Let’s get back into blogging shall we?

If you’re a reader of the Go Free Range Weeknotes then this will be old news for you, but if not, you may be interested to know that we’re dipping our toes into the crisp, clear waters of product development.

We’ve taken a script I hacked up and spun it into a shiny, useable web application called Harmonia. If you’ve ever worked in a group, team or organisation and become frustrated at how hard it can be to self organise around chores and other regular tasks, perhaps Harmonia can help. Find out more on the app itself…

We’re starting to invite beta-testers now. If you’re interested and willing to give us some feedback, we’d love for you to sign up! You can also follow @harmonia and @freerange for news and updates and all that jazz.

Hopefully I’ll start blogging about other, non-conference things from now, eh? Splendid.

Well. Here I am. Let’s get back into blogging shall we?

If you’re a reader of the Go Free Range Weeknotes then this will be old news for you, but if not, you may be interested to know that we’re dipping our toes into the crisp, clear waters of product development.

We’ve taken a script I hacked up and spun it into a shiny, useable web application called Harmonia. If you’ve ever worked in a group, team or organisation and become frustrated at how hard it can be to self organise around chores and other regular tasks, perhaps Harmonia can help. Find out more on the app itself…

We’re starting to invite beta-testers now. If you’re interested and willing to give us some feedback, we’d love for you to sign up! You can also follow @harmonia and @freerange for news and updates and all that jazz.

Hopefully I’ll start blogging about other, non-conference things from now, eh? Splendid.

Day Ten

… yep, we skipped ahead.

I decided to return the MacBook Air. Let me explain why.

Firstly, it’s (almost) nothing to do with the Air’s suitability as a development machine. For the time I had the Air, I used it almost exclusively and could only fault it when comparing directly with other clearly-more-powerful machines. Day to day, it was a great little machine.

The reason why I decided to return it was because I realised that the weight saving of the Air versus the Pro was actually negligible when you take into account the raw weight of the Boris Bike. Basically, it didn’t really make it significantly easier to cycling around.

So instead, I’ve bought a 27” iMac, and I leave my laptop at home. Ain’t no lighter laptop than no laptop.

Summary

So there we have it. I really love the 11” Air, and when it comes to replacing my actual laptop, I will give that form factor serious consideration. If you need a new laptop now, I highly recommend it unless you definitely need continuous, intense computational power, or you think it’s going to somehow make a Boris Bike magically lighter.

Day Ten

… yep, we skipped ahead.

I decided to return the MacBook Air. Let me explain why.

Firstly, it’s (almost) nothing to do with the Air’s suitability as a development machine. For the time I had the Air, I used it almost exclusively and could only fault it when comparing directly with other clearly-more-powerful machines. Day to day, it was a great little machine.

The reason why I decided to return it was because I realised that the weight saving of the Air versus the Pro was actually negligible when you take into account the raw weight of the Boris Bike. Basically, it didn’t really make it significantly easier to cycling around.

So instead, I’ve bought a 27” iMac, and I leave my laptop at home. Ain’t no lighter laptop than no laptop.

Summary

So there we have it. I really love the 11” Air, and when it comes to replacing my actual laptop, I will give that form factor serious consideration. If you need a new laptop now, I highly recommend it unless you definitely need continuous, intense computational power, or you think it’s going to somehow make a Boris Bike magically lighter.