BOSS logic

The agile disease

Luke Halliwell recently wrote an exceptional piece titled The Agile Disease. And, as someone that pushes this disease in various forms, you might be surprised to hear that I agree with just about everything he’s written on the topic, save a few points. For example, the commercial trendiness of Agile and its “manifesto” is just [...]

Subversion of OS/X

I recently stumbled on a comparison of Version and Cornerstone, two leading Subversion clients for Mac OS/X. These are both excellent clients for SCM control, although if you use an IDE such as Eclipse or IntelliJ you probably won’t need a stand-alone SCM client. In my case, I’m more interested in accessing the code than [...]

New skin and WordPress 2.6

Upgrading WordPress is getting easier and easier, especially with handy little plugins like the WordPress Automatic Upgrade. Three blogs upgraded in just a couple of hours (and that includes all the tweaking and plugin upgrades that go along with it).
So, at any rate, the old Boss Logic look has been around for three years or [...]

Notebook event

For those of you in love with the Apple notebook line, Apple is about ready to turn their attention to the next generation, as the company announced a special event being held in Cupertino on October 14 at 10:00 am. I’ve been a fervent fan of the MacBook Pro line for it’s power and developer-friendly [...]

Hell all over again?

Now that Google’s Chrome is making some waves (about 2 million downloads worth), it’s probably starting to hit web developers:

“This is hell,” [said an attendee at Web 2.0 Expo], to applause from the audience. And he followed up with a question to the panel: “What are you going to do about it?”

With Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, [...]

Reversing Google’s fall?

Now that Android is out, and we can all look forward to Google’s first Android powered phone, will it be enough to slow or reverse the company’s stock price drop? Don’t get me wrong, Google is still a fantastic company and a darling in many regards; it’s still a dream job in the eyes of [...]

Not finding

Every wish you could use the command line find utility but have it exclude directories? Yea, me too, all the find. No seriously. And it turns out it’s pretty easy to do, too… it only took me a decade or two to stumble on the solution:

$ find . ‘!’ ‘(’ -name ‘.cvs*’ -prune ‘)’

There you go, [...]

Precipitate

Oh, this is cool.
Precipitate lets you search for and launch the information you have stored in the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac. It currently supports Google Bookmarks and Google Docs. Precipitate works by creating files on your machine that are imported by Spotlight, then periodically checking in with the server [...]

Modern data visualization

Smashing Magazine has catalogued some of the most amazing visualization technique available today. I’m particularly fascinated by the spacial navigation and visualization models. As technology catches up with the processing capabilities of humans, we’ll be seeing more and more technology like this. We don’t think in folders and files–we think in relationships, proximity and “likeness.” [...]

Social media defined

If you’re still a bit fuzzy on this “social media thing,” here’s a great little move by Common Craft that makes it all clear. And tasty, too.

Mouse-less computer?

Microsoft, having let Apple pave the way, has announced that they’ll be releasing touch screen computer technology in the near future. I wonder if what this report implies is correct though–a mouse-less computer would indeed be a bad thing. Sure, I love being able to touch my screen to control things. There are even times [...]

Self-charging iPod?

http://devicedaily.com/gadgets/apple-files-patent-solar-cells-for-portable-devices.html