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 didn’t realize that it had been so long since I’d posted anything (or even looked at this site), but was motivated to dig back in after seeing Kevin Burton’s posts about the WordPress BlogSpam Cancer that is rapidly spreading. I have a sort of sick fascination with these weird new security threats as they flow across the internet, get [...]

Another disturbing development from the Mac Shareware front: Garrett Murray developed an application called xPad (stickies, text edit replacement) for OS X and was selling it as shareware. He agreed to sell the website, application and some other bits of intellectual property to Brian Ball of macZOT, a shareware promotion website. Sales apparently weren’t as brisk as Mr. Ball would [...]

My development environment has consisted of a Windows Machine, a Mac Mini and a Linux box (running Cent OS) for a while now. With the recent release of MySQL 5, I thought it would be amusing to both begin upgrading my development boxes and also install PHP+MySQL on all of the different machines to play with replication, etc. I ran [...]

Code may be Poetry, but nothing pays the bills like cash. The ever present awesomeness of WordPress (on which this site runs) has a new link on the homepage. It lays out the prices for sponsoring the WordPress homepage and if you’re not curious enough to click the aforementioned link, let’s just say it’s real close to 10,000 Dollar Menu [...]