I have had a half day outage of my personal domain kariv.com today. It is hosted at godaddy.com. THe reason was “application pool” starvation. I tried to figure what I did wrong for about 3 hours, before calling their support. Once I did, and spent 40 min on the line it was fixed. Of those 40 min, 10 I was waiting for an agent, 5 for identifying me (logging into my paypal, finding the numbers and reading out to the agent), 15 for her trying to troubleshoot the problem, 10 for second tier support to actually figuring it out.
It could have been worse. But I am still unsatisfied. I am going to move to discountasp.net which is the best asp.net hosting out there. lots of awards. And my experience with them for several years was nothing short of excellent.
Godaddy will stay my registrar. THe current one I use, idregister, is too small and too hard to reach.
As I keep working on gganttic (www.gganttic.com) I am more and more aware of Google Apps powers. The latest example is the use of blogger for our internal discussions.
Once I have ported all my archtectural and product managment documentation to Google Docs and shared it, I becaome to consider building our discussion threads around Google Documents. Our functional architect suggested using blog instead. So we have blogger account that non except of us insiders can read. And boy it is useful.
We dutifully tag the posts with “labels”. Then it is easy to find all relevant postings using labels.
Today I discovered the Polling plugin. Create a question and 4 versions of the answer. You post in on the blog. You set the target date. One can revise one’s vote at any time (i guess until the due date)
I assume that some discussions will become valuable enough to form into a document. But for the living discussions I like blogs better.
My pet project, gGanttic is out
You can check it out at www.gganttic.com
gGanttic is a Gantt chart centric online project management that stores tasks in Google Spreadsheets. So you can see the Gantt chart (bar chart) or you can edit your tasks in Google Spreadsheets. Simultaneously with other developers.
I started this project after we tried to use Microsoft Project server. It did not work for us. Lots of logistical and technical problems, even though we brought in expert consultants. And all client access is ActiveX based, so no luck for our Macintosh guys.
Being fascinated about Google applications and Microsoft Silverlight technology I decided to write my own. It currenly is very bare bones. But it will grow.
It shines where it counts (for me) – collaboration and anyplace availability.
