Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp. Some things really stuck out to me: 1. The move to Github quieted the number of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted. 2. Plugins as a [...]

I had a great time last Saturday at Raleigh Ruby Camp and met a host of Ruby on Rails developers working on interesting things. One of the discussions that occurred was lead by Mark Imbracio of 37 Signals. I’ve posted the audio below and have linked to some of the topics that came up in the discussion. The audio quality [...]

While the title of this post may sound like I just strung four random words together, they actually accurately describe the following video that depicts what augmented reality interfaces might look like. For the time being, I think we’re still going to do more with iPhones than holographically projected images, but videos and other speculative works do seem to have [...]

Many people don’t realize that every copy of OS X ships with a robotic personal assistant: Automator. Automator is a drag and drop tool that allows you to quickly throw together time saving mini applications. Something many people need to do is to repeatedly convert photos from one size or format to another, and while it’s easy enough to use [...]