I’m taking a week off of active programming to focus on better understanding 3 aspects of Rails development I’ve been wistfully ignoring: Migrations, Testing, and Deployment. There’s a tiny, fun little project I’m using as the venue for these subjects. One week from today (May 1) is what I’m giving myself on this effort. Any […]
Project Idea: a site that reviews and analyzes ‘terms of service’ agreements and ‘privacy policies’ and presents them in an visually skim-able way, a la Creative Commons licenses UPDATE 20 March 2007 I just picked up slareporter.com with this in mind.
I’m with Aaron, I don’t quite get Twitter. If you want to know what’s on my mind…read this blog. What I do get about Twitter is really, really fast publishing. The faster, the better. So, I cooked up a little script (11 lines) to post directly to this blog from Quicksilver. If you’ve got a […]
One of my biggest problems with podcasting is the production process. Even without editing the audio, the process is far too manual to repeat without inherent discouragement (65 podcasts in year 1 and 20 in year 2 should speak to that). In an effort to publish more and make podcasting as effortless as writing this […]
Not much more to say. Things really shouldn’t look different on your end.
I just updated the PodcastMN aggregator source code. New features include; Config file as a central location for all settings Creates html, rss, opml, m3u, and xspf files RSS file includes some iTunes podcast tags Includes the del.icio.us playtagger baked-in As always, you can see it in action at PodcastMN
Hello gentle reader, I’m looking for your favorite open source projects; applications, websites, services. If the code is available for free and you’re a big fan, throw them in the comments. I’ll start: WordPress – weblog engine and content management system Ruby on Rails – web application framework CocoaMySQL – OS X desktop MySQL database […]
Last night, I was poking around Apple’s Dashboard Documentation and starting building a couple widgets. If you’ve upgraded to Tiger and interested in kicking the tires on them, drop me a line. Widget #1 released 18 May 2005: The ProjectMaker Dashboard Widget
If you haven’t heard me proclaim, “RSS killed the visual web designer”, now you have. Quickly stated, RSS is a structured format for distributing text, audio (podcasting), video (vlogging), even applications in a convenient and anonymous way. For the publisher, RSS means the timeliness of email without the worry about spam filtering. For the reader, […]
I’ve got an announcement to make. Some of you lucky folks already know about it. Actually, the only people that don’t know about it aren’t reading this. Huh. That actually makes me feel better. Still, I anxiously await for the DNS to propagate. It’s official – PodcastMN is up.