Staying on top of Changes with Mercurial

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

If there’s one constant in software development, it’s change. Little changes here and there, and the occasional big change happen all the time. Web development is the same, and arguably even more so. Freed from the need to package everything up and ship it in a numbered release, it’s all to easy to fix a [...]

GTD Update

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

So after trying out a bunch of different GTD apps, I’ve gone back to using “Thinking Rock”:1 as it’s the closest fit to how I imagine a GTD app should work. I can enter to-do items by project, then view them by date or by context. Thinking Rock automatically saves my actions periodically and backs [...]

Pzizz

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

MacZOT.com Fans want Pzizz because ‘According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation and its effect on work performance may be costing U.S. employers some $18 billion each year in lost productivity. Another study pushes this cost to over $100 billion.’ – _link to full article_

Spotlight

Monday, February 27th, 2006

A few months ago I noticed that Mail’s search was broken, because searches within “Entire Message” always turned up nothing, altho searching Subject, From or To seemed to be working fine. After a little detective work I found out that Mail.app uses Spotlight when searching Entire Message, so maybe Spotlight wasn’t indexing the mail folders? [...]

TextMate: Can Text Editing really be this much fun?

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Much of my Developer life revolves around working with text files: web pages, perl scripts, php scripts, SQL exports, javascript, log files, config files, time logs, and even plain ol’ text files. BBEdit has been my text editor of choice since the late 90s, and it’s done a great job with pretty much everything I’ve [...]