Archive for the 'Personal' Category
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
On February 19th, 2004 I registered roobasoft.com. At that time I knew I wanted it to someday be my full time job, but it was a remote dream. Today, at 2 p.m. EDT I finished my last day of employment and that dream became a reality.
What’s next? For the short term I’ll be doing contract […]
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
rooSwitch 1.2 is available now. The only feature that made it into this release is the ability to switch profiles from the dock menu. The other major improvement is a fixed hang seen on Leopard.
Here’s some quick status on the rooApps:
rooSwitch
The 1.2 release was started many months ago and took way too long to finish. […]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I have 228 feeds in NetNewsWire. I’m guessing that’s a fairly typical count. It ends up being about 30-60 new news items a day. I noticed I was reading my news in what may be a unique way and thought I’d share:
Turn off auto-refresh. I tell NNW when I’m ready for news.
Every morning I set […]
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Tonight was Apple’s annual design award’s ceremony. rooSwitch took runner-up in the Developer Tool category!
I’m obviously pretty excited about this and am glad I made it to WWDC this year. It’s really awesome to have something I made be recognized by Apple.
On with the thanks.
I’ll start by thanking my wife and our two girls. They […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
In less than 3 hours I’m hopping on a Southwest flight from Boise to Oakland. I land in Oakland at 8:05 and will be greeted by my father-in-law (thanks!) who will drive me to Moscone to get my badge and queue up for the Keynote. In-laws in the SF area are very helpful when you’re […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
I’m going to be showing some slides (and talking over the slides) and doing a demo of RubyCocoa tonight for the Boise ruby brigade. I’ll post the code and slides tomorrow for anyone that might care. Hopefully someone learns something (minimally, I think I’ll get a lot out of it)
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
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27 years ago, I was born. On that same day, Professor Longhair passed away.
I’ll let you connect the dots.
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Your favorite browser sucks! Mine does too. I rotate through Camino, Safari and OmniWeb. They all have strengths and weaknesses. After about two weeks, my default browser seems to have more weaknesses than strengths. So I switch!
“But what about my bookmarks!? and my saved form data!?” you say.
With that, I point you at WebnoteHappy[1] and […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
We keep our home pretty cool during the winter. Since I work out of the house all day[1], I’m frequently bundled up with a hat and stuff. The one thing I can’t really cover well has been my hands. I needs to type. It’s what I do. To combat my whining about my cold hands, […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
In order to keep myself busy, I’ve moved hosting providers again. If you notice any bumps, please let me know @ contact@roobasoft.com
The move is from pair (who I still highly recommend) to a slice over on slicehost (who I hope to be able to recommend). I got the slice to play with some rails stuff […]
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