So what's next

Recently a friend and I have been sketching out the concept of building a dating website unlike anything you've ever seen. Bridging two very different ideas into a single entity, a prototype communication model currently under development over at google and the GPL model of freedom. Yes websites need money to stay afloat but why is it that some of the worst websites charge some of the most horrendous prices? Dating is about selling services, it shouldn't cost any money just to walk into a pub and start talking to someone, how exactly is this dating? What if we were to build a dating website which was free to walk into and didn't have all the restrictions of the existing models? What if instant messeger, email, games, fun and entertainment were all built directly into the fabric of the website itself? Communication is no longer a traffic light system, its the enabler of the perfect pick up line, how bout a game of something right inside the... lets call it a wave :) These waves will be central to the entire website people will be able to communicate in real time, schedule events and actually make mistakes like you would as if the person was right in front of you, no more construction of false selfs in static emails. Just you, me, us all as we should be... And fundamentally it will be free to use this communications system, no charge to the users and the only costs will be the addon services like the dating guru's automatic date construction or the automatic matching service. The are other ideas as well, to pull parts of some really awesome dating sites into this communication system, HTML5 has some location based API's that we'd love to use to help people connect based on where they are. Imagine being able to meet someone down the road, play a game of pacman or something random with them and ask down to your local pub just because you opened the iPhone app and used the fabric of the dating website to help you connect with your someone local? I'm excited, are you?...

Fix for RapidSVN Merge and Diff

For anyone out there that is looking for how to make my favorite comparison tool - Beyond Compare 3.0 work with RapidSVN (0.9.8) try...

Diff

Program: C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 3\BComp.exe

Args: %1 %2 /title1=%1 /title2=%2

Merge (for doing three way merges)

Program: C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 3\BComp.exe

Args: %1 %3 %2 %4 /title1=%1 /title2=%3 /title3=%2 /title4=%4

I know the args list looks a little wrong but this version will prioritise your local copy of the file over the head of the branch (cause you don't really want to loose your changes)

Hope this helps...

One week and counting

Well I've got a week to go before it's all over here at Dealogic, then I start a new job hopefully with a bit more excitement and lots more to do. So I need to figure out how to kill an afternoon doing nothing but web browsing, maybe a little bit of work on my game.. Project Dax. Then I can hand it over and get the developers to really start cranking the work out. Really looking forward to this weekend, lazy drinks in regents park on sat, and setting up my new speaker system on Sunday. :-) can't wait. Signing off. B


-- Post From My iPhone

Location:A4,London,United Kingdom

Does the universe ever laugh at you?

Sometimes I wonder if the universe thinks my life is just one big practical joke. I'm sitting here writing this on my iPhone because my internet, tv and telephone are out of order until Sunday. I'm about to go for what is probably the 10th interview i've been for in the last month and it's likely that I'm not going to get it. My personal life is a mess and I'm currently thinking going home is the best way out. Where do I go now? God only knows, hopefully this whiskey will help shut my eyes and start again tomorrow. I feel like I'm having a mid life crisis and I'm only 28. How can this be? And I've recently been told I have a hair pulling disorder called something too long to retype.. Help! Bx


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Failover During Mirroring

So this is the result of the sample application...

refer here