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Rails success. My little Rails project at work is starting to wind down finally. I’ve been heads-down on this thing for almost a week, but it seems to be worth it—I have a nice UI around my database, along with a clean schema to replace the hacked-up one from the previous design. I have 8… Continue reading Rails success

One year of VoIP. From looking back over my phone records, it looks like today marks the beginning of my second year of VoIP. I’m not sure which day I actually set up my Asterisk server, but I signed up with NuFone on March 23, 2004, one year ago today. At the time, I paid… Continue reading One year of VoIP

Running your company on web apps. Evhead rounds up the web apps that help run Odeo. Visit site [SimpleBits]

New Office: The BitCave. SimpleBits is unpacked and settled into its new office in dowtown Salem, Mass. I've snapped a few photos and gathered some thoughts on the big switch. [SimpleBits]

Boston-Area Web Geeks Meetup. Continuing the tradition of past gatherings, Ethan and I are organizing a meetup for web geeks in Boston, on Thursday, April 28th. I hope you'll join us, where we'll be celebrating the end of winter hibernation. [SimpleBits]

GigE to the Home – Wireless Next?. Converged Digest reports that Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) officially launched its 1 Gbps symmetric service for the residential market. Yes,”GigE”. It's 1,000 times faster than most DSL service in the United States. Approximately 800,000 households, out of a total of 2.2 million households in Hong Kong, are… Continue reading GigE to the Home – Wireless Next?

Installing CFMX on Mac OS X. For a long time I've been promising to publish my simple guide to performing this installation. I've talked a lot of CFers through it now, many of them brand new to Mac OS X and not at all familiar with the Unix command-line. So here is my version… [An… Continue reading Installing CFMX on Mac OS X

Frustrations with Apple's tech support. In response to an irritating problem I'm having with my two new Mac servers, I called Apple for support today, and have to say I'm less than impressed. First, to explain the problem: both of my machines are wired on a network, and while the network has the capability of… Continue reading Frustrations with Apple's tech support

“It would be a tragic mistake to underestimate the potential market power Skype is accumulating.” So says the always insightful Martin Geddes. He's right, and yet this mistake is still quite widespread.   [Werblog]

Mono in focus. Mono, which is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .Net Framework, was in focus at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 on Thursday. The technology features a virtual machine that can enable .Net applications to run on Windows or Linux and Unix, and lets .Net developers build apps for those two platforms.… Continue reading Mono in focus