My World

So today I’ve been trying to find a substitute for my BusySync trial, since I try to do as much free as possible.

I surfed around a bit and found out about Plaxo, which apparently was supposed to be able to do what I needed, a two way sync from my iCal to gCal. I sat down and spent almost two hours trying to get it work until I kicked it out of my computer again. Really didn’t work at all as BusySync, that has really been working beautifully.

If there is anyone of you out there that know of a good program please tell me. Cause I’m really needing this, and can’t really find a good substitute.

There is the GCALDaemon, but it’s kind of an unnecessary hard install, am waiting until that install gets better then maybe that is a good exchange to BusySync.

Anyhow, need to find something with a bi-directional sync for iCal and gCal, if there is anyone out there that knows a good substitute, please tell!

– Jo

Google just never stops surprising me, now they have started Google Health.

At the moment it only works for people in the US above 18 years, but it’s supposed to expand soon. Haven’t found any dates yet though.

The idea is to add your health data into the Google Health app, at the moment I can’t really see the point of it. Don’t even know if I trust Google with that kind of information about me.

However it could get really interesting if the data could be used to learn about ways to solve medical problems by statistics. Lets say that there are people in the world that somehow don’t get breast cancer, then maybe by using this health app they can realize what they have incommon, and then find a cure.

Not likely? I don’t know, anyhow I’ll keep an eye on it to see what happens, but I’m probably going to wait until I start submitting my own info.

– Jo

I just read this article byTechcrunch - Twitter abandoning Rails.

If you have read my thoughts about Django and Rails earlier you know that I’m quite interested in this at the moment, and I’m still having trouble choosing ether one of them. I’ve been going in between both, but this kind of puts another extra weight on the Django side. Though it’s really way to early to know whether Django has the same problem or not. I guess that I have to choose soon, otherwise there will show up something new and then I’ll start doing all this again.

Anywho, scalability is obviously something that you always have to put into consideration, at least if you have any aspirations about your site.

I’ll give you a link to the site I’m working on at the moment in a couple of weeks when I actually have something to show. That site is at the moment getting developed in Django, so there you pretty much have my answere what I’m going to choose.

– Jo