When Pow Eats Up the Clock Cycles
I have been a huge fan of Pow to serve my Rails applications for development on my Mac. ?I wrote my love for Pow a while back and have been using it ever since, but all has not been a perfect experience along the way. ?After upgrading to the 0.3.2...
Homebrew Upgrade Woes
I ran into an interesting problem recently after updating my installation of Homebrew on my Mac Pro. ? Starting with the update command, which ran successfully:
ASP.Net MVC vs Ruby on Rails Smackdown Results
I’m sure everyone saw this already, right? ?In case you didn’t then it’s worth a look. It amazes me (though it shouldn’t) how far a community of developers can take something vs. a software giant like Microsoft. ?It looks like open source wins against corporate. ?Sure, the results are not...
Farewell to Stack Exchange
I posted recently about having priorities straight in your profession and Jeff Atwood, founder of Stack Exchange, comes to the realization as well.
Less is More, Enjoying Startup Life
Interesting, thought provoking and true post by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) of 37Signals about how people seem to feel obligated to work crazy hours and make their startup all consuming. ?This is the wrong approach and can be harmful to the overall life of the startup. As David points out:...
Mixing Secure and Non-Secure Assets in Your Web Application
The life of the web developer never seems to be easy, always a new problem cropping up.
Marco's Love of Android
I have been following an interesting discussion between the Shifty Jelly folks and Marco Arment of Instapaper regarding the merits of developing for iOS versus Android and whether it’s worth the developer’s time (read money) creating for the platform.
Attending Voices That Matter : iOS Developers Conference
I am very excited to be attending the Voices That Matter: iOS Developers Conference in Boston, November 12-13, 2011. ?It is put on by the folks of Addison-Wesley Professional, one of my favorite publishers. The speaker line-up looks fantastics, from the VTM site: > Learn all about developing applications for...
Lesson Learned : Don't Be The Cheapest
My new MacBook Air 13” has finally arrived and is a gorgeous example of Apple’s design, but this is not about design.