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Indy in New York
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Thanksgiving Computing
Just remember: nothing says traditional Thanksgiving like the Honeywell H316 Pedestal Kitchen Computer.
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Happy Thanksgiving
As my American readers sit down to enjoy a happy Thanksgiving meal, I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season.
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Dropbox on the iPhone
Ive been a big fan of Dropbox, a completely seamless remote storage solution, since they first had their closed beta. They provide two gigabytes of storage for free, have native clients on Mac, Windows, and Linux (including 64-bit!) that Just Work™, and have a ridiculously clean website that m ...
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Rebasing in Mercurial
So, youve adopted git. Or maybe Mercurial. And youve started to use it. The problem is, every other commit reads some variant of, Merged with stable, merged with base, or some such. These commits convey no useful information, yet completely clutter your commit history. How do you make your history m ...
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Why QA is Important
QAs one of the most important parts of any software development project, so Im profoundly saddened by how often its overlooked. Thankfully, Copilot has a solid QA process, so when we release software, I can generally be confident that it will work as-advertised.
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Tricks with mq
Last night, I realized that I had accidentally made some commits to one of my Mercurial repositories without an email address set, meaning that they all showed up as benjamin@localhost. Since the repositorys private, and I wasnt worried about destructively rewriting history, I wondered, can I fix th ...
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TED Talk on the Third World
This is an amazing, riveting talk on the progressboth social and economicthat has been made in the Third World. If you vote, if youre active in politics, you need to watch it.
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Why I Love Meetings
Learn why I love meetings over at the Copilot blog.
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Rachmaninoff Had Big Hands
I dont want to get into the habit of posting videos, but having played a lot of Rachmaninoff when I was youngerincluding Prelude in C# minor, Op. 3, No. 2this video had me in hysterics: For the record: when I last played the piece, I couldnt play the full chords, either. (Courtesy of The O ...
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Minority Report in Real Life
A company named oblong has implemented the Minority Report computer interface in real life: You can read more on their corporate blog.
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Guide to Deploying Seaside on Linux
While Ive gotten pretty good at deploying Squeak and Seaside behind Apache, I remember that the first time I tried it, I got horribly confused and frustrated by the lack of any simple, easy-to-follow guide. Well, if your virtual host runs a Debian-based distro, now youve got one: Peter Osburg has pr ...
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The Impact of Gay Marriage
I have to confess, this is roughly my take on the situation. Im not especially clear on what the hullabaloo is about.
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Phones and Bovines
Would we recommend the Storm? If youre locked into a contract with Verizon, want a touchscreen phone, and are willing to put up with an OS that moves like a tranquilized yak, then yes the Storm is for you. Not exactly the rousing endorsement that Verizon and RIM were hoping for, I think, but co ...
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bitquabit 3.0 Beta
Well, bitquabit 3.0 is slowly coming online. The new blog is up and mostly functional, the new landing page is in place, and soon my independent coding escapades will be fully onlne. In the meantime, feel free to follow along over at my bitbucket account.
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Free Books on Programming Linux
When I was a junior at Duke, we had to make some changes to the Linux kernel for my OS class. Unfortunately, I was the only one whod had much experience in Linux before, and our professor seemed to think that providing any instruction about how Linux kernel workedor even how Unix programs in genera ...
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Ubuntu 8.10: Fonts Done Right
I recently upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 8.10, and amazingly, Ubuntu just went from one of the wrost font systems Ive seen on any system to the best Ive seen on any system. They seem to have taken Microsofts ClearType technology and improved upon it. I would love to know what they tweaked to achieve ...
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Announcing Fog Creek Copilot OneClick
Im proud to announce that weve just shipped Fog Creek Copilot OneClick. You can read about the details at the new Fog Creek Copilot blog, Air Traffic
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Debugging objc_msgSend
Hamster Emporium has a great article on how to debug crashes within objc_msgSend. When I first learning Cocoa to write Fog Creek Copilot for Macintosh, I remember my first crash within objc_msgSend leaving me frustrated, as I had absolutely no idea how to proceed. I wish this article had been avail ...
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An Apple a Day Brings a Blue Screen Your Way
I love OS X, and in general find Apples software on the platform extremely high-quality, but when it comes to running Apples software on Windowswell, its an entirely different ballgame. Safari uses its own widgets, windows, and font rendering, which makes it look utterly out of place on my desktop. ...
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Google Continues Quest to Index All Atoms
Google has begun digitizing old newspapers, making certain old Onion stories a bit less funny. I hope it goes without saying that I love technology, butat the same time, theres something I used to find infinitely more gratifying about having to use card catalogs, paper indexes, and microfiche. Th ...
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