Archive: Outside the Box category
I realized this morning that I don't necessarily have to install Subversion on Bluehost to be able to use it -- I can have my Mac be the server. Granted, that means I won't be able to access it from other computers, but for now that's not really a ...
Check out 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail, a great article by Josh Porter on Bokardo.com. Here are the main points:
Focus on social instead of personal.
They solve too many problems, or try to.
They’re about making someone other than the user happy.
They sell it the wrong way.
Not in it ...
John Dvorak writes about the Eight Signs Microsoft Is Dead in the Water:
For the past year or so, this is what I've been telling people in private. Now that there appears to be some sputtering by both the stock and by those who defend Microsoft I think it might ...
I downloaded Quicksilver, "a unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data." Merlin Mann's talked about it on 43folders and it seems to be pretty cool, from what everyone is saying. I'll give it a shot for a week and see how ...
Remember how I couldn't log in to my WordPress admin page in Firefox on Windows, only Internet Explorer? (And even then the Tiger-like admin interface didn't show up.) Well, Firefox here on my Mac works fine. As does Safari. Yet another reason not to use Windows ...
A few days ago I looked through the Capistrano (SwitchTower) site a bit, but it didn't look like anything I'd really need to use. But then when I read the Apple Ruby on Rails tutorial (see my last post), this popped out at me:
When it comes to deploying ...
Technically these aren't my very first steps, because I installed InstantRails on my Windows box the other day and played around a little bit. But development on Windows is not fun, and the DOS prompt just doesn't cut it as a shell. (I couldn't get RadRails to work, ...
Finally got a Mac at work. Mmm. :) It's really, really, really nice to be back on a real computer. We still haven't figured out the network situation yet (they kind of don't want us to put a hub in), so I have to switch the Ethernet ...
In The Back-Logged Life, Greg Knauss writes about info-glut. It's the mountain of stuff that keeps piling in, crashing into our lives (or seeping up from the sewers, in some cases) and always always always bogging us down. And yet some of it is important, which is ...
Apple recently posted this article: MySQL on Mac OS X: An Ideal Development Combination:
According to Brian Aker, Director of Architecture for MySQL AB, “Frankly I think Mac OS X is the best platform for doing development today. It gives you the best mix of development tools and required business ...
