Comments for Andy Gibson

Comment on Vertical Limit: Why Chrome is no longer my default browser for work by Andy Gibson

Andy Gibson — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:24:43 +0000

I often find that tabs are a bit like post-its. Yes, 30+ tabs is excessive and for the most part I do manage to keep on top of things but when we have a day where the shit hits the fan my tab count rapidly goes through the roof and since you never know when you need the content of any one of the tabs you just don’t close them. What sort of work can trigger this? Well a stack of support tickets all with realated information, multiple instances of a website (maybe dev, staging and live), google searches, HTML sources, web service calls, etc. All things that help in the reporting, analysis and repair of bugs on live systems.

The other time things grow is when I open blog posts, news article and such that I don’t have the time to read and want to come back to later, I organise the tabs to remind me to read them.

I keep my 5 core tabs open because I have found I waste more time consistantly loading them up, logging in (if they have crap authentication systems) and then working out what is new and what isn’t. I tend to look at them far less if they are always there, I just collapse the tab group and get on with my work.

Comment on Vertical Limit: Why Chrome is no longer my default browser for work by Jim

Jim — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:22:22 +0000

First world problem alert!

30 tabs at once? really?

Each to their own of course, but I find it hard to believe you really *need* that many open at one time (or more as you say “others” do).

You must context switch a lot! Try closing Hootsuite, Gmail, G+ etc for a start and concentrate on work!

Comment on LayoutRenderer cannot be found: ‘aspnet-request’ (NLog 2.0 beta 1) – Fixed! by Colin Mackay

Colin Mackay — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:56:49 +0000

I got this error too, but on the final release of NLog 2… It turned out I’d forgotten to actually reference the NLog.Extended.dll assembly in my project. (Oops… A bit of a school boy error there!)

Comment on DDD Scotland 2011–Voting opens by Tweets that mention DDD Scotland 2011–Voting opens - Andy Gibson -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention DDD Scotland 2011–Voting opens - Andy Gibson -- Topsy.com — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:26:41 +0000

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Comment on DDD Scotland 2011 – Call for speakers by Tweets that mention DDD Scotland 2011 – Call for speakers -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention DDD Scotland 2011 – Call for speakers -- Topsy.com — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:11:47 +0000

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Comment on And you enter your Dawn of War 2 pre-order code where? by Andy Gibson

Andy Gibson — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:32:37 +0000

Hmm, the feed appears to be working for me, try using
http://www.andy-gibson.co.uk/index.php/feed/

Comment on And you enter your Dawn of War 2 pre-order code where? by Robby Paugsch

Robby Paugsch — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:27:02 +0000

Hey, I try to subscribe to your rss feed but it’s not working! Anyway, nice post

Comment on Feedly – RSS Reinvented! by Lee Traupel

Lee Traupel — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:36:01 +0000

Hi Andy,

Great insightful write up about Feedly. I like and use it as well but trying to figure out how to cross promote if via Posterous in some way. Do you do this?

Comment on Fallout 3 Freezes/Crashes – Possible Fix by jgt2598

jgt2598 — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:24:34 +0000

I had the same problem, thought it was the number of mods I was running, ended up uninstalling and reinstalling twice. WASTE OF TIME! This solution worked on the first try. THUMBS UP!

Comment on Feedly – RSS Reinvented! by Wiertz sebastien

Wiertz sebastien — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:43:41 +0000

When I was forced to switch from FeedDemon to Google Reader, I was not so happy to leave some functionality behind me (I loved the feedDemon client)
Feedly is now the first app I open in the morning for my “breakfast 2.0”. I have now no fear to add sources to my RSS feeds since I know it will be clearly represented in a “magazine like” interface

A nice article !

PS: I do not see Buzz in my option
PS2: I really like the feedly sidebar !