Monthly Archives: July 2006

TextMate

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Joe

I guess its that time for trying out those things that you said you would, but hadn’t gotten around to. Last night, I became TextMate user # 13348 when I paid up my euro’s to the TextMate payment engine. First … Continue reading →

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DarwinPorts

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Joe

A new version of DarwinPorts has hit the streets – version 1.310. If you already have darwinports, you can update it by using the following command: sudo port selfupdate If not, and you’re using open source on your Mac, check … Continue reading →

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PayPal all screwed up with safari

Posted on July 30, 2006 by Joe

I spent a little time today getting an account set up with developer.paypal.com to look around and play with some ideas. After three rounds of resetting my password and attempting to log in, I finally switched over to using Firefox. … Continue reading →

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OSCON in reflection

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Joe

As I’m chilling out, home and relaxing, I’m thinking back to OSCON – the people and the sessions, what I thought. Figured it was worth babbling out to everyone. Or not – you can always close the page if you … Continue reading →

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Django 0.95!

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Joe

Django release 0.95 is out! I gave Jacob and Adrian some shit about their “we’re releasing it this week!” at OSCON, but they did it! Congrats to you guys – it’s a great system, and I’m looking forward to both … Continue reading →

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10 tools developers need today

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Joe

10 Tools Developers Need Today – my pick for the first session today. Tough choice though… The conference session slides are available now though: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/presentations.html 1) spread spam moderation among all the members of a mailing list. 2) http://www.red-bean.com/svnproject/contribulyzer/ – … Continue reading →

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Another look at OSCON day 2

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Joe

Andrew gives a decent overview of Day 2 sessions (mine were scattered throughout the day). And I’m 100% in agreement with the Greg Lang/Autodesk keynote assessment. The backchannel commentary was scathing (“Where’s his left hand?”), and it really felt like … Continue reading →

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LaserMouse

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Joe

Neat project overview of another technology using video to control a PC. Rob Stephenson is giving a presentation here that was a neat project focused on making presentations better. The goal was to use a laser pointer to make a … Continue reading →

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more r0ml

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Joe

After seeing him in this morning’s keynote, I revised my afternoon plans and attended Failing to Suceed by Robert “r0ml” Lefkowitz. I’d actually first heard of this guy from IT Conversations and his session there entitled “missing projects”. It was … Continue reading →

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Google hosting open source projects

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Joe

Yep, it’s out. Announced, and I got to see it. The talk at OSCON was about the (inevitably beta) release of Google hosting service for open source projects. I haven’t dug in or really played with it – the room … Continue reading →

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