March 2011
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Bond… James Bond
I’m a regular listener to The Talk Show. The podcast typically is just two nerds talking about Apple, Apple’s products, and the competition, but they have their fair share of tangents. One of those tangets is that they’re watching one James Bond movie every week, from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace. I’ve seen a few of the movies, but I’ve never seen one with Sean Connery, and I’ve always felt...
December 2010
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Must-Have Mac Applications
Now that I have been a Mac user for almost a full year, I felt that it was time to post what I consider to be my must-have applications. I am a web developer, so some of these applications may or may not be useful to you, but I found these sort of lists helpful when I first switched from Windows.
Transmit 4 (free trial, $34 USD)
Transmit is an FTP client, except that it is so much more. I only...
November 2010
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Why Wesabe Lost to Mint →
A great read from one of Wesabe’s co-founders on why Mint beat Wesabe.
June 2010
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Apple Pre-Sold 600,000 iPhone 4's →
I guess this sheds a little light on why Apple and AT&T were having problems yesterday.
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Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems →
What little shop will they swallow up next?
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Why Tony Hsieh Sold Zappos →
Read the article to find out why, but it sounds like Tony made the right decision:
Zappos continues to operate independently. Our relationship is governed by a document that formally recognizes the uniqueness of Zappos’s culture and Amazon’s duty to protect it. We think of Amazon as a giant consulting company that we can hire if we want — for instance, if we need help...
Google ditches Windows on security concerns →
I can’t imagine that very many Google engineers were using Windows to begin with.
May 2010
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My (Lack of) Privacy
Until tonight, I have never really considered my (lack of) privacy on the Internet. My Facebook privacy settings have always been the defaults, which basically shared everything with everyone. My Twitter feed has been public, included location data, and relayed everything to Facebook and LinkedIn. My Foursquare check-ins have been relayed to Twitter, and so on. Not only is a lot of this...
April 2010
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Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash →
Jobs lays out six reasons why Apple doesn’t allow Flash on iPhones, iPods, and iPads.
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“[Netflix for the iPad is] a bit buggy and crashes whenever I finish an episode,...”
– Matt Haughey
March 2010
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The Wind of Change is Blowing…
Recreating this website was not one of my new year’s resolutions, but I can’t take it any longer. There are too many things wrong with this it. If you think what you see of the website sucks, you should see the horrible admin interface that I created for myself. Hardly anything is salvageable. Back in January, I started developing a new website from scratch.
Application
The current website...
February 2010
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The M in MVC
I’ve been thinking a lot about code separation, and it’s something that my coworkers and I spent a fair amount of time talking about recently. For a long time, my idea of a model in MVC was a bunch of fairly dumb objects that also handled their own persistence, and I was putting business logic into controllers. I’ve come to believe that this isn’t the best way to do things. What follows is my...
January 2010
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MacBook Pro and OS X First Impressions
Thanks to my new employer, Ning, I am in possession of my first Apple computer. After spending my first week with a shiny new MacBook Pro and OS X, I thought I would jot down some notes about my experience.
There are several things that I am sure have affected my expectations, likes, and dislikes. I am not your average computer user. Being a software developer, I believe I fit into the...
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Ten New Year’s Resolutions for 2010
A little late, and not in any particular order…
Waste Less Time
I spend way too much time skimming RSS feeds, tweets, and useless news articles. In 2010, I will waste less time.
Play More Music
My wonderful wife talked me into buying a Yamaha MO8 last year, and I haven’t played it in more than two months. In 2010, I will play music at least one hour per week.
Read More
I can’t remember...
Re: In a Perfect World…
Every January, one of my tasks is to update my resume. Since my resume is hosted on this website, I decided to take a look at what else might be collecting dust around here. It’s strange to me that I spend most of my waking hours attached to an Internet-connected device, yet it’s been more than six months since I’ve written anything.
I looked through my first In a Perfect World… musing and...
June 2008
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In a Perfect World…
Life would involve less work and more play.
Public education would have more value than a piece of paper at completion.
Adobe would release Photoshop CS4 for GNU/Linux (and I’d have the time and knowledge to use it).
This wouldn’t be the first thing I’ve written for the ’net in the last several years.
I wouldn’t be coming up with more items to add to this list just to avoid finishing a school...
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TypePad AntiSpam →
This looks like a promising replacement for Akismet.
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The Stapler’s Secret →
Apparently staplers have more than one way of stapling — it’s called “pinning”.
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The PHP Benchmark →
Live PHP benchmarks for loops, echo vs. print, and more.