This is the initial plan for how and what I’m going to be testing on the hopefully forthcoming Sun Ultra 40.

So I got the quote for my Ultra 40 that I’m going to be using for participating in Sun’s try before you buy program. Hopefully they’ll soon be shipping me a $5,000 system for testing Ruby on Rails. One thing that I did notice, thanks to a comment on Jonathan’s blog entry about the promo, [...]

Sun Microsystems, venerable system and software vendor of the Unix world, has a rather interesting promo going on. It’s part of their try-before-you-buy deal, where you can get a free 60-day run on one of their mid- or high-end servers and workstations. According to Jonathan in his blog post, if you post a thorough review [...]

So I’ve decided to move the blog off of TextPattern and on to the more dynamic and powerful WordPress. I will need to go through and convert the older Textile-format posts to HTML, so that may take some time. Please bear with our dust!

So it looks like BareBones Software has remembered how to make new products, and it looks like it’s Cocoa, too! A BareBones app that doesn’t feel like an antiquated holdover? Unpossible! But, all that being said, they announced Yojimbo 1.0 today and it looks somewhat decent. It’s one of those information gathering tools, sometimes called [...]

Lots of my friends and colleagues use various different databases for different things, as do I. One thing that I keep coming across is people using MySQL. I’ve never much liked MySQL; its transaction system is fairly new and is not enabled in the default table type, it’s really fast for read queries but slow [...]

There are several aspects of Mac OS X, both from a system level and an application level, that handily make it the best system for web browsing and development on the market today. First and foremost is the plethora of web browsers available for it: Apple’s Safari The Mozilla Project’s Firefox Omni Group’s OmniWeb The [...]

I’m working on the site again. I’m rather fond of this layout and would like to thank those who helped me with it: BlueRobot My friends My coworkers Now, with that out of the way I resume hacking away at both figuring out how Textpattern works and getting it to look the way I want.

This is my first test of using Textpattern on my shiny new TextDrive account. Seems to work well so far.