Category Archives: Life

X300 first impressions

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

Got my Lenovo Thinkpad X300 last week and I’ve been using it for development for only a few days. Here are my first impressions: Pros Very lightweight Fast – the SSD drive seems to make some things pretty fast and … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Linux, Tech | 6 Comments

Google Code could be EXTREMELY dangerous

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

I host a number of projects including JCatapult over at Google code. We use the wiki over there for our documentation because it is simple and centralized. The wiki is stored inside the SubVersion repository and when you update the … Continue reading →

Posted in Engineering, Google, JCatapult, Life, Tech | 1 Comment

Directv media sharing

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

Okay, this took me a long time to get working and I wanted to set out my steps. The most important part is noted below and it is the step that nearly everyone misses and if you don’t do it, … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Tech, UPnP | 19 Comments

The new year

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

It’s 2008 and I’m hoping to start blogging more regularly again. To start, I figured I’d tell my readers my plans for 2008. Here’s the quick run down: 1. Continue building Inversoft’s Profanity products and increase sales I did a … Continue reading →

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GMail IMAP doesn’t work for mailing lists (conversations)

Posted on December 22, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

Well, I think I’ll have to ditch GMail’s hosted email completely because of the way that GMail handles conversations (i.e. threads and mailing lists). After switching Inversoft and Pontarelli email to Google, I realized that GMail IMAP has a huge … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, Life, Tech | 4 Comments