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I’ve used many-a revision control tools during my software development career, beginning with Visual Source Safe, migrating to SourceGear’s Vault followed by a long and fantastic relationship with Subversion and now, in my own personal projects, git. By far my favorite has been git.
Ladies and gentleman, I’m telling you now: Distributed revision control is [...]

As I read Open Thread: Social Web & Its Challenges, I realized how ridiculously fragmented and ugly my own online identity has become. Twitter accounts, MySpace, Facebook, OpenID, banking, shopping, noise and clutter and ugh! Dameon Welch-Abernathy wrote (in response to Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate):
Companies are building services atop services without a [...]

This week I’ve been learning about…

ZFS: See tutorial 1 and the tools for OS X
The Dojo toolkit: I appreciate the elegance and performance of Dojo.
ANTLRWorks: The excellent grammar studio for ANTLR

I spent some time working on Stoopad. Exciting things happening with WordPress, particularly the 2.7 RC1 release. Updated quite a few plugins. [...]

My brother’s birthday was yesterday. Feeling inspired after reading this very instructional page, and knowing full well it’s just what he needs, I set about making my very first Thing in a Jar!
Essentially it’s sculpy, some acrylic paint, rubber cement, a jar and Coke. Dang that’s easy! Unfortunately I am simply not a photographer, [...]