ze blog of simon

There are lots of different ways of tracking a project (i.e. a list of tasks, dates, calendars, time frames, notes etc), with various tools (MS Project, Basecamp from 37Signals, Google Calendar, Horde and a gazillion other applications and online tools).

But so far not all of them manage the ideal all of all of the information everywhere. I would love to have the information spread acoss my PDA (Palm, online & offline), Laptop(Outlook, Thunderbird, online & offline) & web-based online access. Certain amounts of this can be done with SyncML, various sync tools & sites (Zyb, ScheduleWorld, Funambol). I like replication. Safety in numbers. Add into this the fact that I work in some awkward environments (I have my corporate laptop, with Outlook/Exchange, I have client sites where I only have OWA, and sometimes I want to get at the data when I’m out and about)

So, how to solve this problem? An application that supports various storage backends.

Tasks & Calendars that can save out details to Horde, Google, Exchange (over WebDAV/IMAP)

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After struggling & cursing Microsoft for months, I found this post, applied this patch, Q330909_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe, everything is good again   There is a description from Microsoft here.

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My job seems to have morphed into writing a lot and not doing a lot[1], while distracting myself from something I should have been doing, I stumbled on this: Writing, Briefly, from Paul Graham. A good read. Although I’d break stuff up more than he does/has in that article

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I applied this patch: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=4193 to my syncml horde instance, working well so far, just have to get my head round the mess of a naming convention in the iCal world.

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