I’ve always been paranoid about my home code. After doing regular backups at home on a spare hard drive, I always felt that I needed to have an offsite one.
When I discovered Live Mesh, I thought that this was the answer to my need. I immediately connected my project folder and my Subversion folder to the mesh (to have both in-progress and committed copies). The best part is that this is all done in the background. I love it!
It turns out somebody else had the same idea.
I prefer this approach over publicly hosted SVN services, which may require you to post your code publicly for free.
Paul said,
May 5, 2009 at 6:15 am
Wow. I am actually doing that also. Live Mesh+Subversion.
Though it would be way much nicer for MS to combine 3 of their storage-related products (Live Mesh, Live Sync and SkyDrive) to avoid confusion.
What I hate with live mesh is the folder being placed on the desktop. I really like my desktop to be empty. Hope they can integrate it on Windows 7’s new taskbar…
jabanico said,
May 5, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Yes I agree that Microsoft should consolidate all their remote storage products.
I’m fine with desktop folders, as many apps are still tightly coupled to the local file system. Mesh allows these to be “networked”.