mj » Syncbridge http://cimota.com/blog you want to start something? Fri, 09 May 2008 07:52:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Don’t like Outlook? Get Chandler. (or iCal Server…) (or…) http://cimota.com/blog/2007/10/12/dont-like-outlook-get-chandler-or-ical-server-or/ http://cimota.com/blog/2007/10/12/dont-like-outlook-get-chandler-or-ical-server-or/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:32:31 +0000 mj http://blog.infurious.com/2007/10/12/dont-like-outlook-get-chandler-or-ical-server-or/ The Scobleizer writes: I’ve been hearing about the Chandler project for years..

Me too, Robert.

It’s nice that the default screenshots of Chandler, much regarded as an Outlook killer, are all on the Mac and, frankly, the application looks better for it. It still looks a little cluttered but it’s a great amount of progress considering when I last used it, it could barely launch.

We’re waiting, of course, for some other software. iCal Server does some parts of it but we hope to have another little announcement in a few weeks time.

]]> http://cimota.com/blog/2007/10/12/dont-like-outlook-get-chandler-or-ical-server-or/feed/ Ah. Becoming clear http://cimota.com/blog/2007/10/10/ah-becoming-clear/ http://cimota.com/blog/2007/10/10/ah-becoming-clear/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:11:32 +0000 mj http://blog.infurious.com/2007/10/10/ah-becoming-clear/ CalConnect.org

This is for my reference.

]]> http://cimota.com/blog/2007/10/10/ah-becoming-clear/feed/ The Leaning Tower of Pisa http://cimota.com/blog/2007/01/19/the-leaning-tower-of-pisa/ http://cimota.com/blog/2007/01/19/the-leaning-tower-of-pisa/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:57:29 +0000 mj http://blog.infurious.com/?p=259 “By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.” - Guy Kawasaki

I know exactly how this feels.

Another quote recently came from another company which is building services based on Google Calendar and described it as trying to build a house during an earthquake.

Working with Apple’s SyncServices is similar. The only showstopper bugs we came across were related to “just the way SyncServices does things”. It randomly resets, wiping out your calendar data or your address book data or resetting your .Mac sync and the best Apple can offer is “Restore from your backup.”

And just for you snarky types, this happens on machines NOT running SyncBridge.

As a result of that, and also because of Leopard and “Calendar Server”, we’re redoing a lot of SyncBridge to try and make up for shortcomings in SyncServices. It’s delayed because of some contract work which came in as a bit of a surprise but Phil, our lead coder, will be at the Big Nerd Ranch in Germany next week.

And yes, there’s other products on the horizon….

]]> http://cimota.com/blog/2007/01/19/the-leaning-tower-of-pisa/feed/ SyncBridge: no new registrations due to system changes http://cimota.com/blog/2006/11/30/syncbridge-no-new-registrations-due-to-system-changes/ http://cimota.com/blog/2006/11/30/syncbridge-no-new-registrations-due-to-system-changes/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:02:11 +0000 mj http://blog.infurious.com/?p=232 We’re preventing new registrations for the time being as we implement some changes.

We’re not happy with the performance of Ruby with our database queries even on the new server and so we’re going to be doing some extensive back-end changes.

We’ve also extended our free registrations until the end of December 2006 while we work on things.

]]> http://cimota.com/blog/2006/11/30/syncbridge-no-new-registrations-due-to-system-changes/feed/ SyncBridge at it’s new home http://cimota.com/blog/2006/11/17/syncbridge-at-its-new-home/ http://cimota.com/blog/2006/11/17/syncbridge-at-its-new-home/#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:06:35 +0000 mj http://blog.infurious.com/?p=224 Man, that was a tough couple of days but SyncBridge is now in it’s new home and the performance load on is soooo much more comfortable. DNS is moved, certificates done and email is receiving and sending fine!

The new hardware, Juggernaut, was so quick that when building the environment we were complaining about the speed of the broadband because compile times were blazingly quick (the main server has 4 bloody-quick processors after all!).

We will be scheduling a bit more downtime in the next month or so to beef up the RAM on the beast but other than that I’ve been running the machine ragged even under load and it’s been hopping, skipping and jumping…

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