Thank you Dropbox

I've been using DropBox for quite a while now, at least a year maybe two. I've used syncing software before and it always got to a point where I would get conflicts and have to do cumbersome folder merges to try and sort out which file was the most up to date. That has never happened with DropBox.

Given that I am primarily a web developer and do a LOT of server-side programming you would think this the ideal solution for keeping two Apache server root directories (one on a laptop, one on a development server) in sync. A vital requirement given my peripatetic work life. But no! The good folks at DropBox insisted that the DropBox folder be called "My DropBox" and as any self-respecting Apache httpd.conf wrangler knows, spaces in folder names do not play well with the web-server du jour.

Over the last few days I've had cause to reinstall my main development machine and noticed that Dropbox now names it's folder simply "DropBox". I don't know when they introduced this change but I for one am very, VERY grateful.