Wow, another screensaver 90
Finally got through the things I wanted to do for my initial version of this new screensaver. Check it out on my screensavers page.
Screensavers 56
Early this morning I uploaded my first macosx screensaver. You can get it on my screensavers page. Check it out.
You can really hate some people you know... 182
When I started writing this blog (for the 3rd, 10th? time) I felt that I wanted to turn it into something that started to get more hits.
Google Analytics quickly burst that bubble. For a whole week, my only visitor was a chinese seach engine.
Which all ads to my feelings of envy when I see someone 'getting it right'.
Specifically, I mean "The Reinvigorated Programmer":http://reprog.wordpress.com/
This guy (Mike Taylor) knows his stuff, rights well and manages to do what I can never seem to (keep up the pace of posts).
So, I have added him to my RSS feeds, and I suggest you do the same.
Reading his posts inspires me to redouble my own efforts.
Finally, adulthood 53
Finally, for my own present to myself on my 44th birthday, I purchased a 1TB firewire 800 external hard disk, for use as a backup device.
I recently had the unfortunate experience of losing my macbook pro hard disk. While I was able with heroic measures to not lose anything, it scared the bejebus (yes, a technical term) out of me.
Does this mean I am finally growing up? or that I have run out of other, more exciting things to buy myself?
Toyota, you know you are in trouble 7
When even the geeks are making fun of you! http://www.xkcd.com/702/
Does anyone else work this way? 6
It is just after 7am on Saturday morning and I have just completed the most intense half an hours work of my day. When I finished, I opened my eyes and turned over in bed with a smile.
JQUERY, before you go to bed, put your toys AWAY! 8
I have been wrestling with an issue I have with jquery dialogues. When I hit an issue like this, I always assume it is my fault. Pretty safe bet that. But no! JQUERY does not put its toys back where it found them!
Interesting Book... 7368
The article I mentioned about AREL mentioned a book that I really intend to look into.
YERS! get in there! Rails 3.0 FtW 166
For the last 5 years I have classed myself as a Ruby on Rails developer. More recently, I realise I might possibly not be able to say that. I have been using Django a lot. I love RoR, but Django has some nice features. One of them is its ORM query mechanism, but things are changing....
Wait, stop, I have been doing it wrong for 20 years. 12
IT, as in IT work.
I have been a professional coder (don't laugh) for over 20 years. Yesterday, My son(Alex, 12) and I where in the car, and as is natural, our discussion got around to copyright. Where it has been, where it is going, why it is as it currently is. During the discussion, I realised, I have run my career all wrong.