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I started to realize how cool git is when I saw this:

Circuit City, may I please direct you to my comments about Zed. At least FedEx was at least professional when they took my call, they stay in the I’m-annoyed-but-I’ll-still-work-with-you category. Both could use a healthy dose of Joel’s advice.

I’m not sad to see the writer of Mongrel leave. Not one bit. I’m not sure what Dave Thomas was reading earlier today, but I don’t have anything positive to say about it. I like Mongrel. I’ve read Zed Shaw’s article rant on programmers and statistics, and I liked it quite a bit — though [...]

When I first thought of getting and iPhone I never figured I’d use the video feature much. But it turns out that I was wrong. I’ve found that things like Railscasts are both incredibly useful, and surprisingly readable on the 160 dpi screen. I’ve also just loaded up the Apple Video Tips to check them [...]

It’s been an eternity since I’ve created a podcast. The kids have grown, but both are still in diapers, neither can dress, and both still need assistance with food. It’s a ton of work, and I totally LOVE being a dad. This has had a tremendous impact on my time over the last 18 months, [...]

All 32 CPUs showing 97% or greater. Is this “normal”? I got CC’d on an email this morning that included this statement. While I’m sure the answer is a very clear ‘No’, the email made me start to question the reality I inhabit just a bit.

Back at RailsConf a couple months ago, there were a few presentations that made an interesting case for considering OpenSolaris instead of Linux. I had never really considered Solaris much before then. When we got back, one of my friends, Preston Lee, really wanted to dig into it to find out more. He got a [...]

I’ve been using Safari 3 for Mac OS X for a couple hours, and while things seem generally nice so far (I love the expandable text areas, and it really is a very fast browser), it’s definitely a beta. I ran into a few odd screens, while trying to learn the shortcuts. Like this one: [...]

It’s all over the news today. Steve Jobs announced that there won’t be an SDK for the iPhone — just use Safari. Oh, and you Windows developers can use Safari for Windows to test out your iPhone apps. (BTW — I really love the “resizable text areas” in the new Safari 3 beta. It makes [...]

I’ve been using Firefox for a long time. Last night I decided to give Camino a spin. I’m using a nightly build of what will become the 1.5 stable release later this month. This thing sings. It’s fast, feels lean and light, and it stores my passwords in Apple’s Keychain. Lovely. There’s no way I [...]

In last year’s JSF Burrito podcasts, I argued that I didn’t see the point of using a strong component model for JSF and that throwing away nice HTTP RESTful URIs is a Bad Thing. In an interview with InfoQ, DHH takes up a similar (though probably more polite) stance. InfoQ: DHH Responds to Stateful Web [...]

My two year old just blasted past between my laptop and the plug. The mag adapter dropped off my MacBook Pro in silent fashion. My two year old kept quietly running (a rare thing — the quiet part). I was happy. It’s the tiny details like this where design shows its true colors. Is your [...]

These days there’s lots of sleaze around, and one place where it annoys me is at the domain registrar GoDaddy.com. I’ve used them forever it seems — back when I saw their ad on AltaVista’s search engine. These days, though, I find their marketing to be sleazier than I appreciate. On top of that I’m [...]

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since my “burrito” podcasts on JSF. So what have I done in this last year with JSF? What is my opinion now and how has it changed? Have you ever skipped out on a movie that was popular? Decided not to see it because it either [...]

Today: Release team took 3 hours to respond to the build request I spent all early-morning working on. That made it very late for the QA guy. When we sent an updated release, they asked for us to re-email something we had sent just 1 hour before. I can’t get a login to my dev [...]

Just before election day in the US I bought another Mac (a MacBook Pro, Core 2 Duo to be precise) after ditching my Ubuntu laptop. This goes against some of the recent migrations that smart people have been making. Mark Pilgrim moved from Mac to Ubuntu, as have a few others. I’ve read why they [...]

Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve moderated my comments, and there was an abundance of spam. I didn’t read any of it, but in skimming for the stray real comment my eye caught on one spam message that began: Your site is very cognitive. I think you have a good future. It still baffles [...]

I’ve had lots of feedback from listeners of my JSF podcasts. Many of them have asked what I’d recommend instead of JSF. I think the best answer is no answer here. Matt Raible’s latest post is a great example of the process I’d actually recommend to make your own decision. Look at your project, your [...]

Michael Slattery makes a good observation in a comment on my last JSF podcast. I generally enjoy your podcasts. [...] I have some feedback. It seems like you are complaining mostly about an implementation of JSF rather than the spec itself. Much of my chatter has centered around examples involving the actual implementation. Let me [...]

Merlin Mann has an interesting take on podcasting here: Flash: “Podfading” ravages the landscape of logorrheic bloggers Me? I like the idea that a podcast is simply another way to post. Nothing more. Same way that Flickr and del.icio.us — to name just a couple — let me share something in a way that isn’t [...]