I had a PowerBook that was showing it’s age. I didn’t feel like buying new computer so I actually bought a Mac mini on the recommendation of one of my co-workers. Setting up the machine is typical Mac: plug in and go. The migration assistant made transferring everything over to my new computer way too … Read more
I set up this blog site for programming. I set up this site so that I could share with other programmers some of the problems I have had and how I overcame them. I set up this site, so that I could share with other developers who had similar problems as I did. I didn’t … Read more
You know, I want to go to WWDC, but I couldn’t justify the trip. I had to many things going on at that point in time. The more time went on, the more I thought about going. The track I was really interested in was OpenCL. Honestly, I didn’t think it would sell out. But … Read more
You would think that you could use your FreeBSD server as a file server to host your backups. It’s not as easy as I thought it would be for my laptop working over a wireless network. I actually use Retrospect for my backups, but I found that as my data got bigger, reliable backups were … Read more
I work on large projects that are sometimes too unweildy to debug. The compile times are too long, the apps can take a while to load and when you’re looking to test something quickly, you don’t want to have to sit at your desk and wait for the IDE to finish what it’s doing. So, … Read more
I’m actually using my PC for this one program. This one program I am writting about is Google’s Chrome Web browser. This program is fast! Very fast! So fast that I am actually using my PC over my Mac to search the web. I’m sad by that fact, but luckily, Google is coming out with … Read more
One of the problems I have in my house is that I have multiple cameras of different brands. Although all of my computers are Macs, my wife uses iPhoto and I use Nikon’s ViewNX application to manage photos. She shoots Canon JPEG images and I shoot Nikon RAW images. Sometimes my wife uses the Nikon … Read more
Lately I have been posting very few words. I’ve been reading more than I have been writting becuase there are so many good sites out there, that I have not had the time to write anything worth writting about. Well, here is a website sent me that illustrated some really creative ways to use images … Read more
This is not an advertisement. I’ve been looking around for companies that provide SVN hosting and I stumbled on this company that claims to be 100% Carbon Neutral: http://www.dreamhost.com/. This is an interesting idea and I actually felt good about the prospect of doing business with a company that actually cared about the environment. Now, I … Read more
Like the average person who thinks they are an above-average driver, many software developers think they are gifted, talented, creative people, better than the developer sitting to their left. You know who I am talking about. You probably work with them or you ARE one of them. Anyway, I’m not here to rant about them. … Read more