Month: February 2008

For better or worse, most of my coworkers live and die by their Exchange calendars. Unfortunately, as a developer working on a Mac 24/7, there aren’t many options for dealing with the barrage of Outlook invites I receive each day. I can either use Entourage which only kinda-sorta-works, or I can just deal with it and transcribe each invite manually into iCal or Google calendar. Both options are crap. (Groupcal from Snerdware used to be an option, but it doesn’t support Leopard and their developers appear to have stopped work on the product.) There’s no reason OS X shouldn’t be …

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A favorite theory among tech pundits is that the company that will eventually dethrone Google doesn’t exist yet. Rather, it’ll be the brainchild of former Googlers who quit when their current job becomes boring or their stock options vest. Imagine a mass exodus – hundreds of very rich, very smart engineers with nothing but free time and creativity on their hands. I like that idea. It has a certain romanticism to it. But what if the next, great tech giant doesn’t come from a Googler – but a Yahoo? If (when) Microsoft buys Yahoo!, how many developers will stick around …

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