It’s a personal assistant for online services, available to act at a moment’s notice to things that happen in your sleep, or when you have better things to do. “If This Then That”, or ifttt.com, is a service that has been around for over a year now, and I’ve used it for several projects in [...]
Multi-touch is the new interface buzz-word of the last few years, inciting a geek-frenzy after its big screen debut in “Minority Report”. While such an interface is still a little bit far fetched for the consumer market, the multi-touch concept has made its way to consumers, notably via the iPhone and the trackpads of the [...]
I have a late 2008 15″ MacBook Pro – the first of the unibody models. It’s got 4GB RAM, and it’s an amazing machine. But like anything I’ve had for more than a year, it’s starting to feel a little slower than I remember. A fresh installation of Leopard always helps, and although defragging hard [...]
This has nothing to do with programming, ColdFusion, JavaScript, or things nerdy. It’s far more important that that. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That’s the “seven word summary” of the book, In Defence of Food by Michael Pollan, and it should be required reading for all people who eat. It’s a relatively quick [...]
I’ve been using Billings for about a year now. It’s a great OSX application for managing clients, projects, and invoices. It’s currently $40, and for the price, it has saved me enough time to be worth it. On the downside, I’ve found it to be less than intuitive on occasion, and I’ve often had to [...]
This is for Mac people only – sorry Windows friends. I’ve been looking for this for a while. Now, I’m pretty hard core, but I’m not hard-core enough to use the command line for all my interactions with MySQL. If you’ve been using the MySQL Query Browser that can be downloaded form mysql.org, you probably know that it will crash if you breathe on it. I’ve looked at a few of the clients that have come out for MySQL, but none have made me want to shell out money to replace what I had.