URI Roundup
I did a little bit behind the scenes plumbing here over the weekend. It should be smooth sailing, but if any problems crop up you know what to do.
astormMacworld Thoughts
I'm primarily interested in the "Sub-Notebook" rumors. I'm still waiting for the modern computer I can carry around with me as easily as I would a paperback book. The iPhone is the best internet enabled phone I've ever used, but it's still just a
astormThe State of SEO
If you have an infinite number of monkeys trying an infinite number of "SEO strategies", one of them is bound to hit on something that works.
astormCommand Line Weblog Application
I spent the past few days finally getting familiar with Python and built a small text-input/XML-RPC based weblog client. Like Marsedit, only no GUI, fewer features, and free.
astormEveryone is a Test Driven Developer
There's surprising number of programmers who scoff at the idea of test driven development, probably because it's packaged up with other, less valuable ideas and concepts, (lack of discipline masquerading as Agile, for one).
astormJavascript Command Line Scripts
Update for 10.5 Users: While I was setting up my new laptop, I noticed that Lepord (OS X 10.5) had done away with ~/Library/Java/Extensions. It wasn't there by default and creating it manually didn't trigger the magic "classpath but not classpath" behavior
astormASCII Codes
Even in this Brave New iso-8859-1 UTF world, sometimes you still need the numerical ascii character code for a character. Anytime I google for this I end up on a page with a giant image of the ASCII table, useless for copying and pasting
astormThe Email Situation
My email's been more or less horked for the past few years. Alanstorm.com and my various other domains are setup with a catch-all email configuration. This means I get all email for any address sent to my domains.
astormMoveable Type
When I saw that Moveable Type had released a Beta for version 4, and that they were going open source GPL style I thought about giving it another go.
astormQuick Reg. Exp. for Cleaning Up Text Files
Often, when dealing with text files in my day-to-day duties, I'll end up with large gaps of newlines and white space that I want to zap. Something line
astormWhy Working in IT/Software so Often Sucks
I was reading an article somewhere (can't find it now) about Steve Wozniak and his work on the Apple II's original disk drive. The basic gist of the article was, up until then, disk drives were hugely expensive because everything had to be done
astormRecursive FUD
F.U.D. is an acronym for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, which is a phrase popularized by the Linux community to describe Microsoft's original approach to discrediting Linux and other open source projects. Wikipedia has you covered if you need more information.
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