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The benefits of competition. Competition means users enjoy innovation and lower prices. Take broadband Internet access, for example. Cable and telephone companies are slugging it out, and their customers are the beneficiaries. Oh, wait. It turns out the price of DSL high-speed Internet connections in the US actually rose last year. (And, according the the… Continue reading The benefits of competition

2 ways to make RSS readers smarter. There's two significant features I've been wishing for in my beloved newsreader, NetNewsWire, and the emergence of this cool little ListMixer app will suffice as the prodding needed to toss them out to Brent and the boys upstairs. 1. Per-feed expirations I'd love a little drop-down menu on… Continue reading 2 ways to make RSS readers smarter

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]