Month: February 2006

Using Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X at the Apple Developer Connection. The Apple Developer Connection has a nice Ruby on Rails tutorial called Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X. As the title suggests, it is aimed at getting OS X users off the ground with Rails. The Apple… Continue reading Using Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X at the Apple Developer Connection

List of what's coming up in Rails 1.1. Today someone on the Rails mailing list asked, innocently enough, “Is there by any chance some document available summarizing all the (major) beautiful new stuff in Rails 1.1?” As is to be expected, he received instructions on how to do a diff between the 1.0 release tag… Continue reading List of what's coming up in Rails 1.1

02/28 Trinity 3.1 [DistroWatch.com: Distributions]

Dr. Contextlove or: “How I stopped worrying and learned to love iCal”�. A favorite topic of GTD‘ers is the contexts that we each choose to identify the times, tools, or locations by which a given task can or must be undertaken. This is a highly personalized decision, and I’ve learned a lot from seeing how… Continue reading Dr. Contextlove or: “How I stopped worrying and learned to love iCal”�

Picking your micro-ISV niche. By Bob Walsh, Safari Software, Inc. Over at The Business of Software forum, Jackson asked today, “…But the problem is – how to know what kind of (web or desktop) app to build. How do you detect the trend that will be big, while the trend is still in its infancy?”… Continue reading Picking your micro-ISV niche

Some thoughts about one-man shops. I noticed a post today by Rob Merrill (mostly because he linked to me in the post) on the Good Recruits blog titled Yes they are looking. I thought what he had to say tied in nicely with some of my own thoughts recently about the job I left behind.… Continue reading Some thoughts about one-man shops

W.F. Buckley: Iraq War a Failure. According to William F. Buckley, Jr., conservative icon and founder of the National Review: One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. “It Didn't Work”  [Democrats & Liberals Watchblog]

The secret to Web 2.0. Kottke: “They're all web sites”. Wonderfully simple. Good web sites will endure, regardless of terminology or technology. Let's just continue building web sites. Visit site [SimpleBits]

Remote configure your Tiger Mac through the command line. I was trying to configure my Mac’s built in Remote Desktop sharing last night through the command line. The RDC client, which is built into every Tiger Mac, was prompting me for a password when I attempted to connect using an open source VNC (screen sharing)… Continue reading Remote configure your Tiger Mac through the command line

Another reason why mainstream media is losing readers.  A Failure of the Press When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press — an institution at the heart… Continue reading Another reason why mainstream media is losing readers