Long time, no see.

It’s been a while since an update. Needless to say, I’ve been a busy chap the last few months… the work I’m doing with my Sydney client turned a particularly busy corner, alongside gearing up a new business so I’ve essentially been buried up to my eyeballs in work!

Exciting new developments though… I have an opportunity to dabble in SAP.

I’ve also set up shop in a shiny new office in the Brisbane CBD. It’s taken the better part of 4 weeks to get naked ADSL installed here (cable guy should be arriving….. 8 minutes ago) so it’ll be nice not to run up my 3G bill.

Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen all week is Panic’s status board. Panic make a brilliant FTP client called Transmit… amongst other products that I haven’t explored yet.

Panic status board

Seriously cool.

But is it really necessary?

YES.

A status board like that would make a such a difference in any development environment. Being able to see at a glance who’s doing what, what people are saying, live updates of a product’s uptime/downtime… given the opportunity, you could fill a wall with live data about your products, and it wouldn’t be wasted space.

I’ve seen the classical whiteboard setups, but you always have the problem of people not updating it because they don’t have 5 minutes free to run to the whiteboard, or someone accidentally wiped out an important note or somesuch. The whiteboard has had it’s day.

While flitting around the Panic website, Coda has caught my eye… I might have to look at that.

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[V] is for [V]ictory.

So I got a call from Raj at Telstra Complaints yesterday. They’re dropping the two hardware charges ($399 a piece) and the early termination fee ($341). He didn’t mention the month of wireless access I was charged for (incorrectly) so I’ll have to chase that up. All things considered though, I am grateful for the quick response (despite the last post, the complaint was only sent less than a week ago). Good to know there are still some elements at Telstra interested in good customer support… unless of course it was more a matter of “just give him what he wants, it’s not worth being dragged to the TIO”. But… grateful nonetheless.

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, as they say.

VICTORY IS MINE!!

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