This will be the last post on WordPress.com. I’m moving my blog to my TextDrive account. The new URL for the blog is http://ascarter.net/blog. Feedburner links should still work.
I run Ubuntu Linux on my machine at work. If I need to create a spreadsheet or word document, I either need to use OpenOffice.org or remote desktop into a Windows machine. Both options are not appealing.
In many cases, open source projects are better than their commercial equivalent. But not always. There are examples [...]
This is the coolest portable computer ever.
I mean, portable data center. I love it. I’m sure we could use one at Jobster…
Only two days to go until the return of the best show on TV: Battlestar Galactica. I just picked up Season 2.5 on DVD and have been watching them as a run up to the season premiere. The ending to last season was very risky. I have some doubts on whether they can pull it [...]
Part of my job lately has been to look at how our service is architected. We have a mix of Java and Rails applications but these are not exactly what people call web services. We know we want to turn more of our functions into services but in what way?
I had heard of REST but [...]
This past weekend, I watched the film United 93. I debated whether I wanted to watch this movie or not. I intentionally have avoided shows and movies about 9/11. Networks like CNN and Fox News have made a living off sensationalization, fear, and unethical reporting. Hollywood doesn’t seem like it would be much better. But [...]
Charles Oliver Nutter is one of the key people working on JRuby. He announced that he has been hired by Sun to work on JRuby fulltime. I think this is fantastic news. I’m very intrigued by the possibilities of creating harmony between Ruby and Java. We use a healthy mix of J2EE and Ruby on [...]
Apple rolled out new iPods and a movie store today. These are nice and are an incremental step. I was hoping for widescreen iPod (so I can ditch my PSP) and HD resolutions. No on both of those. The thing that has me most interested is the iTV device. It’s the extension I’ve been [...]
This year was my first WWDC. I don’t have the history that Matt Neuberg has with the event. But his blog post captured the event exactly. The content in the sessions was great. The experience was not.
When working in terminal, I’d like my prompt to look like:
[user@host:.../cocoa/apple/examples]$
I like to know a couple levels above where I am without it taking over the entire screen width. This function will let you show the last 3 levels or the whole path if less. It also shows ~ for your home path. [...]
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