I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
How to best provide support for the software you create is an interesting point of deliberation. I’ve gone through various stages and…
Thanks to Adam Tow, I’ve got a newly updated version of SVN Zapper available. This version should be nicely compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.x.
I finally ran into a situation where I wished the MacBook Air had a DVD drive or a FireWire port. I needed to restore from a SuperDuper backup on a disk image on an external drive to a vanilla MacBook Air and was a bit surprised that I didn’t know how best to do it.…
You may have noticed ShareThis loading a lot faster these days. The team has made some great changes under the hood that have enabled better performance and a much snappier response. The widget now pops up immediately, just like ShareThis Classic. I’ve been beta testing the new performance features here for a little while and…
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My Apple 30″ monitor is dying so I decided to go ahead and replace it (additional business expense in 2008 FTW). I was surprised at what I found when looking up the Apple and Dell 30″ offerings. Apple offers (for $1799 retail): An elegant cosmetic design. Dell offers (for $1399 retail): Faster response time. Higher…
Ok, maybe less “outrage” and more “mild annoyance”. After playing with the iPhone a bit I realized that my BlackBerry would be a bit more useful if I had some apps on it for various one-off features. For example, I thought it would be handy to have a weather app instead of loading up a…
Political Irony – Robin Williams on Obama’s Election BZ’s ’07 San Francisco Fleetweek Photo Gallery – awesome shots of the Blue Angels YouTube – Air traffic in 24 hours.wmv Sock and Awe! – oh my. Brand New: A New Pair of Sox for the Red Sox (thanks Dave) Play With Spider – Flash 3D –…
Does anyone have success stories/recommendations for phone answering services? I am looking for something that will do the following: 24/7 live operator answering. Gather basic information about the issue/problem. Call the scheduled “on call” person to pass the info on to. Call the next person on the schedule list if the first, second, etc. is…
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I got an Android Dev Phone so that we can test on it and build for it. My hope/thought was that I could use the SIM card from my iPhone as needed for testing, and use it as a WiFi device most of the time. After some initial hiccups, that does seem to be the…
When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD Tethering on a mac – BlackBerryFAQ Hardware failure (and why I’m glad I’m prepared) – I ordered a portable external HD from Amazon on the Black Friday sale for just this reason. Treating URL Protocol Schemes as Cruft tecosystems…
This site will be moving to beefier hardware shortly. Apologies in advance for any downtime. UPDATE: Looks like everything transitioned quite smoothly. The big speed improvement you see here is in large part due to the good folks at Austin Web Development. Big thanks to Chris and the team there for the smooth transition and…
If you’re a Ruby dev, you should want this job. A great opportunity to work with a great team.
I was planning to skip the BlackBerry Bold and wait for the Javelin (the updated Curve), but decided to go ahead and get the Bold for a variety of reasons: I wanted 3G I wanted a faster processor for JavaScript, etc. in the browser I played with it a bit and found the keyboard wasn’t…
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