Thank you Steve Jobs

I was 16 years old in 1983 when my high school physics teacher, Rocky Trembly, carried a little white box into the classroom. He fired it up and the dark screen lit up and said, “Hello.” I didn’t know it at the time but that moment turned out to be the cornerstone to a lifetime of exploration and discovery. Throughout my life I’ve earned a living as a art director, writer, technology manager, web master and systems engineer and none of it would have been possible or probable without that single moment. Now as the screen goes dark I’d like to say thank you to Steve (and Rocky) for making my world and the whole world a better more different place. “Goodbye”

Picking the Right Web Server for the Right Job

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Thats as true for Web servers as it is for work around the house. This overview explains the pluses and minuses of the obvious candidates — IIS and Apache — and suggests a few alternatives worth exploring.

via Picking the Right Web Server for the Right Job.

Test Early » Hudson – Tips and Tricks

Test Early » Hudson – Tips and Tricks
Hudson is an open source CI server that is by far the easiest one to configure. Second to ease of use is Hudson’s impressive plug-in framework, which makes it easy to add features. For instance, Hudson has a plug-in for tracking FindBugs issues, PMD issues, and CheckStyle issues over time as well as code coverage. It also trends test results from JUnit, as well as build results and corresponding execution times. In spite of all these cool features, we had to find ways to get around some common issues we faced at work using Hudson.

This article describes a few real-life tips and tricks that we have found at work and will assist in configuring Hudson to work most effectively in your environment as well:

1. Changing Hudson home directory
2. OutOfMemoryError
3. Securing Hudson
4. Hudson Views
5. Hudson and Groovy
6. Spaces in directory names
7. Browser to use

Beginners Guide: Programming Cocoa for OS X | MacApper

Beginners Guide: Programming Cocoa for OS X | MacApper
A few months back a friend asked me if I wanted to help work on a small application for OS X. He figured because I had a long history of Windows based programming I would have no trouble making the transition to writing apps for Mac. Well he was wrong for obvious reasons and I also found (unlike coding Windows apps) that the journey to bring my skills up to par for Mac, was a greatly rewarding, yet somewhat convoluted experience.

Back then I put the question to Mudi, one of the devs behind ForkLift, and he came through with some really great suggestions for me (thanks dude!). What follows are some beginner’s recommendations and a brief outline for those interested in learning to build wicked cool programs for Mac’s OS X.

Please backup your hard drive now… twice – goodCRIMETHINK

Please backup your hard drive now… twice at goodCRIMETHINK
There is a tightness in my chest, and I am crying right now. I have just suffered a catastrophic data loss for the second time in my life. Fool me once, shame on, shame on, fool me can’t get fooled again, or something like that.

In college, a freak transformer explosion and subsequent power surge killed my hard drive. From that point on, I swore to always back up my data, and mostly I did just that. As of mid this summer, I had a ridiculous mirrored RAID drive setup with external SATA drives and all sorts of doohickies. I had about 1 terabyte of data backed up locally and had started to upload it offsite to a service called Mozy. But then I started selling off my desktop in preparation for my move from Boston to NYC. I purchased a LaCie 1TB Big Disk and put all my media files and documents from my “Atlas” drive on it. That drive literally held my world on its shoulders.