- Posted by ploft on March 18, 2009
Lately a couple of my friends has asked into how my Google Calendar setup works, since I'm driving this as a central element in my daily planning. It's evolved a bit since I first started to use Google Calendar to be used across multiple devices and systems.
My girlfriend is also a happy user of this setup, allowing here to control her working schedule, since she's working with changing work hours. This has been an issue for a quite some time, since I never knew when she was home because my memory often gets flushed or reset every time I sleep.
My current setup:
4 main calendars:
- My own
- My girlfriend
- Our shared calendar (my girlfriend and me, for stuff where we both attends)
- Building/estate (this is used for registering worktasks, and/or different numbers for stat on electric and water usage)
3 special calendar, for some features that the Google Calendar sadly doesn't have embedded yet:
- Weather (Feature added from calendar settings)
- Holydays (in this case the Danish holydays, feature added from Google calendar "inventory")
- Week numbers (http://recover89.googlepages.com/googlecalendarweeknumbers)
The 4 main calendars are synced with:
- My Apple Iphone 3G (all four, changes are pushed)
- My personal pc, main Outlook calendar (all four, syncs every 15 min)
- My workstation pc, secondary/shared Outlook calendar (only my personal and shared calendar, syncs every 15 min)
- My workstation pc, as a Vista Gadget (my own and shared calendar)
- Girlfriends Nokia 6500 (her own and shared calendar, syncs once every day)
Now you might think that would build up events every day, and displays on some devices is almost impossible to get a good overview of your appointments, but luckily the different calendars are color coded.
The Google Calendar is the primary calendar, and to keep this simple we decided it would be the best (and easiest) that additions and changes has to be made though the Google Calendar webpage.
For syncing the Nokia phone with Google Calendar I use, I would guess Ericsson could use this as well:
www.goosync.com
Iphone setup for Google Calendar:
I'm currently using www.nuevasync.com, but I've heard that Google now supports push technology and thereby allowing you to skip nuevasync as a gateway/pass-through service, and connect directly to your data in Google Calendar, but haven't tried it yet.
Vista Gadget, Google Calendar:
http://www.eelkespaak.nl/2008/08/windows-vista-sidebar-gadget-for-google-calendar/
- Posted by ploft on November 2, 2008
Attending the
Microsoft TechEd EMEA 2008.
I’ll be blogging about the TechEd sessions, and the overall journey.
After almost 4 hours waiting in between flights in Frankfurt airport (
yawn...) I grabbed a taxi from the Airport to my hotel. The ride included some new interesting insight to the local people – or at least the taxi drivers. Along with a lot of singing, yelling at the pedestrians, signaling other drivers on the road - and what sounded like Spanish cursing (because of all the one-way streets leading to my hotel), the chauffeur finally made it to the
Confortel Barcelona hotel.
The hotel is somewhat futuristic compared to all the other hotels I’ve stayed in. A very stylish and minimalistic look dominates the place along with a snazzy looking room too. Note that the minibar
IS free – that gives points in my book.
20:30
foooood! Incarcerated in the Frankfurt airport, the selection of nutrition is fairly limited. Looking forward to enjoying a real meal, I checking the area not far from the hotel, and found a small place called La Emperatriz, where I ordered a well proportioned steak (since it’s my birthday :-), enjoyed the feast to the fullest.
I’ll be checking up on the TechEd sessions tomorrow morning – it’s my understanding, a lot of new sessions has been added – among sessions about
Windows 7, which could be very interesting to attend to.
Enough for me today, see you tomorrow.
- Posted by ploft on October 3, 2008
Finally the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server is landed, gotta check it out. I’ll expect to do some posts about it in the near future.
Get it here...
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
- Posted by ploft on September 30, 2008
So Microsoft announced the 8th of September the Hyper-V Server would be ready within 30 days... as of now there are only a couple of days until the this deadline is up, so I hope Microsoft won't let us down with a notice of delay.
For those of you who might have missed the fuss about the Hyper-V Server and the Hyper-V feature in Windows Server 2008, this is a dedicated server only for hosting Hyper-V machines. Now you might say, yeah but we have the same opportunity with Windows 2008 Core server with the Hyper-V feature enabled – yes, but Windows 2008 isn't free - the Hyper-V Server is going to be free of charge, and has a built in console application for administrating the most simple things of the server-setup. The Hyper-V server should have an even smaller footprint than the Windows Core edition, and should feature wise it should match the same options as if you were running a Windows 2008 Standard edition with Hyper-V.
As soon as it ships I'll be testing it, and I will post my experience here as soon as possible.
- Posted by ploft on September 30, 2008
Our guys in Redmon has revealed some of the extensive enhancements for the next versions of Visual Studio (codename Rosario) and the .NET Framework 4.0. Sentences like efficiency in simplified application life-cycle management, improvement in the capabilities and scalability of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio, and futher sneak peeks at some of the new areas for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.
Check out the Press Release at Microsoft.com
- Posted by ploft on July 25, 2008
July 25th, 2008 (Last Friday Of July) - is the official Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
Today I was introduced to a new event that I – as an System Administrator – didn't know existed, but I can defiantly appreciate the concept of System Administrator Appreciation Day. Read more on sysadminday.com
- Posted by ploft on July 23, 2008
Any Danes going to “TechEd for IT Pros” in Barcelona this year? If you would like some companionship feel free to ping me.
I’ll be staying at the “Confortel Barcelona” hotel...
See ya’ in Barcelona the 2nd November (which by the way is my Birthday ;-)
- Posted by ploft on August 10, 2007
Not in particular pleased with the original themes for BlogEngine.NET, I’ve decided to make my own. Here is the result! A bit more graphical and experimenting than my usual clean minimalistic style that I’m known for, but also a test of an idea of how to mix this artistic-freedom-mosaic-like-design to somewhat more businesslike.
I hope you like it as much as I do. I plan to do some further development on this design as time go by. I also have some thoughts about a gallery-extension to BlogEngine.NET so that it would be possible to show some of my photography work.
- Posted by ploft on August 9, 2007
Since one of my friends and business partner Brian Holmgård have started his first blog, he’s enthusiasm about the concept blog has let me into this world of blogging. I don’t expect to multiple-blog-posts-a-day any soon, since this – and writing only in pure (and understandable) English - is kind of new to me.
Time to pop the Champaign, first post posted…! Weehu!