Entries written in December 2007
Written December 25, 2007 in howto
Inc.com published Joel Spolsky’s Travel Tips… but there isn’t much in there for, you know, the common people. I’ve been flying since I was twelve, but I only fly once a year and I’m on a budget — no first class tickets for me. My father was a regular …
I’m a big fan of the Mac-only developers that have released programmer tools over the past few years. OmniGroup makes OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner, two applications that are open in my tray more often than they’re closed. I feel the same way about Panic’s suite off applications, esp. Transport. The interfaces are FAR easier to use
Coda is Panic’s latest application, and is a text editor aimed at making web development easier. I have been a vim user for ages, but in a terminal window — I don’t like VIM’s gui for whatever reason. I’ve tried Dreamweaver, gVim, BBedit, TextMate, … just about everything under the sun, but I still keep coming back to vim. Coda has some improvements on all of these, but also some things that annoy the everloving heck out of me.
ReadWriteWeb spends a bunch of time pondering why TV-quality scripted video is failing on the web.
Here’s the answer: If it’s longer than five minutes, no one wants to stream it.
The solution: Either snip it into tiny little segments like webcomics (1-2 minutes per day, daily releases) so that people …
When I first started doing PHP back in 2000, PHP4 was brand new. I did some extensive testing to figure out the best way to echo strings. It turned out that the best way was using single quotes, because otherwise the PHP parser parsed the string for variables.
In modern times, …
This is required reading for anyone who’s even thinking of offshoring some programming work. However, it’s not the entire story.
I’ve managed several offshore teams from here in the states for clients. There’s two ways the project can go: You can hire someone like me who speaks english and ‘programmer’, has enough of a business mindset to understand your business processes (because why would you write a program that implement’s someone else’s idea of how your business runs?) and has enough of a technical mindset to lay down the technical specifications. This is what the article above recommends. There’s more ways to do it … read on if you’d like to see a discussion of them.
I’m always getting late fees at the library, so a pay-to-rent service like Bookswim would make sense to me. But at $15/mo for two books at a time, I’m not sure it’s worth it. Still, this is a GREAT service for those like the elderly without easy access to …
This article got posted on Digg earlier today: When Acts of God Bring Down Web Hosts … and it’s got to be the lamest collection of such stories that I’ve ever seen. Anyone who deals with other people’s servers
Here’s my list of stories from the past year:
- Softlayer Dallas: …
My bestest friend in the whole wide world, Danielle Corsetto, has released her first anthology of her webcomic Girls With Slingshots.
Go buy it. That’s an order.
Jumpchart is Daring Fireball’s sponsor this week. Normally I wouldn’t repost a sponsored post (hey, it wasn’t me they paid), but I tried out out. More inside, but the general gist is that it’s a great idea, but there isn’t anything you can’t do with Google Docs — and the account tiers are so limited that if I want to work collaboratively with someone I’ll just do it in Google Docs instead for free.
My number 1 career mistake in IT was not looking at the way things were going and changing my skill set to match. I was working with PHP, and the environment went Perl::Mason. I was a Redhat admin, and they were going Debian. The guy who was the big Novell …
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