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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)

<useless information> 27 years ago, I was born. On that same day, Professor Longhair passed away. I’ll let you connect the dots. </useless information>

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]