My holiday project has been deploying store.roobasoft.com. It’s Andy Kim’s open source Ruby on Rails store, Potion Store. I’ve known about Potion Store since Andy first opened it to the public. Since my current PayPal standard solution was working, and sales weren’t great, I didn’t see any need to change things. However, the PayPal standard [...]

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. [...]

Here’s a video showing one of the excuses I have for it being so quiet here lately:

Video made with iStopMotion.

Note that the rock, grass and mulch you see used to not exist. Our back yard used to be a wasteland of weeds as tall as me. As seen here:

At the 1h 24m mark of Macbreak Weekly episode 51 Mr. Merlin Mann gives rooSwitch a pick of the week nod and Leo then talks up rooVid a bit. It’s always great to hear and see others talk about your work in a positive way.

Thanks guys

There are plenty of uses for rooSwitch that I will never think of. That’s why I love finding blog posts from users explaining how they’re using rooSwitch. What’s better than a blog post? A screencast!

Earlier this week, I found a user generated screencast showing off rooSwitch managing multiple profiles for Final Cut Pro. I got [...]

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 [...]

The traineo folks hooked me up with a simple API quite quickly (simple == good). The widget has two big improvements:

You can now enter your traineo username / password (no longer relies on Safari cookies) The gauge is much more reliable and the NaN issue should be resolved.

It was fun working with the traineo folks [...]

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 [...]

I’m late to this party, but here goes:

MacSanta is:

Thanks to MacSanta, you can save 20% off applications from all 77 companies below! Just use coupon code MACSANTA to save through December 25th.

The number 77 is probably higher by the time you read this. Apps are being added daily.

Since I didn’t have a way to accept [...]

The hard part is over. I can effectively type without forcing my fingers to go where they should. I think I’m at about 70% the speed I was with Qwerty. I’m really surprised that I stuck this out.

For a few uninteresting reasons I had the opportunity to install three different OS’s. The interesting part was [...]