A modest proposal: change from the chaos development method to a sustainable system.

A modest proposal

It is a sad thing to those who walk through this great company, when they see the development pc's (devpc) crowded with cpu power, crowded with large disk space, attached to ethernet cables teeming with the power for megabits per second, all in bits per sec and using notepad to edit code and then copied to the production servers bypassing all reason and the sanity of good source control and release processing.

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Dev PC - the reality

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Dev PC - the current condition

GPS without connectivity is a waste!

Why buy a GPS device without internet connectivity?  It's crazy.  Every device needs access to the internet.

 

The better choice is a phone with GPS and internet connectivity.

 

This is what can be done:

 

Map Your Photos!

Check it out. This is an amazing tool for runners to be able to record and display the experience of a race (or maybe just a normal run, why not?) I wish that I had been able to do something like this for the marathon I ran in 2006 (maybe taking all those photos would have distracted me from the pain too!)

This video shows a running route with photos on it, in Prospect Park, Brooklyn (the race was the Turkey Trot back in Nov 2007). The author is an avid runner as well as technology fan-- he's been working on something that uses GPS to track your location and upload a photo from your camera-phone automatically-- but then you can also upload better photos manually (camera-phone photos are not always the best, and not everyone has GPS)

I hope this tool becomes available to us all soon!

Check out the video: