Ever wonder what the hell your manager is saying? You sit there and watch their lips move, but yet there appears to be no content… just flap flap flap. Thing is, they are trying to say something to you, but they’ve been going all day on three cups of black coffee and no lunch and,… More

A recent Slashdot article about, yet another, start-up founded by Stanford grads got me reminiscing about the good old days when databases where in your face… and… fun? I was a Borland barbarian back in the late 80s and 90s and we had a head full of steam and we had a crazy Frenchman steering… More

Designing phenomenal UI is a thankless, unfair task which is full of contradictions. Let’s go over the list of goals for good UI and notice how screwed our UI designers are. Good UI should: Be easy to learn, but powerful to use Be pleasing to the eye, yet not annoying Integrate with a user’s natural… More

It had to be done.

There are a couple of early websites that are just burned into my memory. So much so that I often go to the Internet Archives to see the ancient versions of the sites in their original GOOD LORD WE NEED CSS SOON glory. It’s the same feeling I get when I return to my high… More

Having a full blown case of N.A.D.D., I know two things: There is an infinite amount of information out there I have a limited time to find it all The consequence of these truths is simple. I’m in an incredible fucking hurry to learn as much as I possibly can. My desktop is my primary… More

I’m scratching my head regarding my recent upgrade to Movable Type 3.0. Back in April, it became fashionable to rip on Six Apart and their apparent desire to make money as a company. Rabid discussions ensued regarding their pricing and, to their credit, the general agreement is that they’ve nailed their revised pricing, but still… More

It takes time for a holy shit to sink in and become a real holy shit, but the holy shit experience is so few and far between that when you even get a whiff of one, you pay attention. I’m likely the last person to discover Quicksilver, but I’ve been using it all damned day… More

I’m fond of my Gmail account. I’ve got enough email accounts out there that pointing all of them at a single account is a time saver. Combined with the Google blazin’ fast search, I feel like I’ve got a usable meta-mail account. And that’s about it. The folders, filters, labels… I know all that stuff… More

The current gig has presented me with a technical scenario I’ve never been in. I’m managing engineers who are writing in a language that I’ve never programmed in Cocoa… Objective C. Yes, many of the lessons of Java, C, and C++ do apply, but when I sit down to do a code review ALL THE… More