I rendered a quick animation of the reSIProcate project’s development history using the wonderful ‘gource‘ tool. You can see it here if you like, in 720p/H.264. I love the flurries of activity that pop up over time. Props to Adam H for pointing me at this tool.
Category Archive: Tech
Jan
20
Quote of the Day: It’s the yaks.
I know, three posts in one day is really too many; but this quote really tickles my funny bone while being a solid reminder why we need some humility and introspection powers. While discussing the requirements or principles that might guide the development of a new mail application for Mac OS X; Brent manages to …
Nov
19
A compelling replacement for make
Having lived with make for over 20 years; I’ve decided that something has to be better. Turns out, there is something better. I’ve been enjoying getting to know both Python and scons together for the last few months. What a wonderful tool for building. There is a ton of information online, so I won’t add …
Nov
17
Web developers outsmarting users (or not). Design assumptions that hurt.
Website #FAILs. Lately I’ve noticed a lot of websites make crazy assumptions about my location. I was thinking it was geolocation gone wrong, but it appears that in general they are doing something completely illogical: they are using my language preference list to guess where I am. This amounts to assuming that all French speaking …
Oct
20
VMware Fusion linux guest os and host file sharing.
I managed to install vmware tools into my guest OS (CentOS 5.2) using the manual install method, mounting the ISO image and then running the perl installer. So far, so good. However, the files are all mounted with the host OS uid/gid. There is likely a better solution, but given that the guest is a …
Jul
14
Hype Instead of Content
Microsoft has apparently released some advertising for their new Office flagship collection (Office 2010). The movie can be seen on YouTube here. I find it upsetting that they can spend lavishly promoting nothing — note that there are zero product shots in this ad. It is pure blockbuster hype. Arial!? Don’t get me started on …
May
15
Who Writes This Stuff?
Sometimes you just have to wonder what the web developers were smoking. A large trading company recently told me the following after I failed to remember my password in three attempts: So there goes any hope that I’ll get that task done. They are forcing me to ignore them until I can restart my browser. …
Mar
07
Cisco VPN Software Replacement under OS X
Just as I had finished complaining about Cisco’s VPN drivers causing crashes, I stumbled across a macosxhints.com hint about vpnc. Looks like this is well worth the effort to install and try it out. This will let me get that Cisco code out of my kernel and perhaps make the lock-ups go away. Further instructions …
Mar
07
Theme Problems
Something isn’t working properly with my normal theme, so I have installed the WordPress ugly default until I can debug the combination of Themes and plugins I was using previously.
Mar
04
VM and VPN woes
I’ve been using a Mac since 2003, and I love it. It is far and away my favorite machine of all time, I’ve had several and I will continue to buy and use them. For software development and general messing around, having a BSD-like OS under a pretty hood has been VERY excellent. One things …