Clever tagline.
Dec 22 2008
Elegant and crisp interface design is an important whether you’re designing an automotive dash or a command-line tool. I find good design practices can be harvested from a variety of seemingly unrelated sources. The underlying thread, is to keep things as simple and straightforward as possible. It’s been said a million times, but it’s so […]
Dec 20 2008
ArbCamp08 was great, thanks to all the organizers, who had to scramble at the last minute to handle a huge turnout by changing the venue. With more than 160 attendees, there was a wide variety of interesting breakout sessions and impromptu discussions. I enjoyed the parallel programming session led by Jon Cohen – I hadn’t […]
Dec 20 2008
Completed my first wordpress upgrade, which went fine. Of course, backpus are key. Backup processes for apps like this can be a tricky verification challenge, as users can have a long history of different versions installed as the starting point, possibly with custom modifications.
Dec 15 2008
I’ve settled on the killer combination for easy backups to a NAS on OS X, and it involves installing no software. It’s a combination of rsync, and scheduling with launchd. The first step is getting your rsync command working. I like it because it allows you to maintain a mirror of your files on the […]
