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• 6.28.08 Coming up for air posted in Geekery

  So, I haven’t been able to put the time into MoodBlast lately that I’ve wanted to. I have reports that it’s stopped working with the new Adium beta and some Tumblr troubles. I’ve also received a developer key for ping.fm, which could lead to some very cool things… once I find the time to make them happen. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to wrap up the branch I’m working on this week and put out a release that will address immediate concerns. Thanks to everyone for your bug reports and feedback, if I haven’t responded directly to you, it’s not because I didn’t mean to. Chances are, you’ll hear from me eventually…

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• 2.2.08 Giving Flock some love posted in Geekery

  Okay, it’s time for a little more in depth post on why I’m loving Flock. The easy part of that answer is that it uses the Mozilla rendering engine while adding some very useful (to me) functionality (Twitter sidebar, blog tools, media stream…) and provides compatibility with most Firefox plugins. The more complex answer is that with a little effort, Flock can be customized to do way more than advertised…

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• 11.24.07 Project Status Report: November 2007 posted in Geekery

  I have way too many irons in the fire right now. I thought I’d offer a quick status report on various projects so that those of you who are waiting for particular updates have an idea what’s happening…

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• 11.10.07 Path Finder, Lost and Found posted in Geekery

  This post was originally going to be about how I had decided to part ways with Path Finder and free up a little extra CPU/RAM for myself. There were some improvements in Finder that I was pretty psyched about, and I figured out workarounds with Quicksilver for a lot of the things I missed most about Path Finder. And then, tonight, a new release from Cocoatech brings me running joyfully back. I absolutely love developers who are as excited to stay on top of new technology as I am :). I’ll share some of my Quicksilver solutions in a second, but first, here’s what’s new in Path Finder…

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• 9.7.07 MoodBlast 2.13 posted in Geekery

  MoodBlast 2.13 is out, current users can just use the built in update options. New users, head for the download page! As mentioned previously, Facebook is no longer a friend of MoodBlast. We’re sorry that it ended the way it did, and we hope they’ll call someday, but for now, we just need some space. However, and in no way is this meant to trick you into upgrading to a Facebook-less version, but UTF-8 and international weather support has greatly improved, the interface is further tweaked and we’ve added Yappd! Here’s why…

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• 6.3.07 Subversion and Quicksilver posted in Geekery

  Okay, you probably already knew this, but I just figured it out. I was looking for a simple way to add and commit files to a subversion repository right from Path Finder. After playing with a lot of applescript nonsense, I finally discovered that with the Subversion Module installed in Quicksilver you can just invoke quicksilver with the current selection (⌃-⌥-space, unless you’ve modified the trigger) and type sv(n) to get a menu of Subversion commands to run on the selection. Status, Add, Commit, Log and Update are all available (with Growl support). The file actions (rm, cp, mv) are not available, but it does what I generally need to do. I’d probably prefer not to be able to delete files with an accidental keystroke, considering the speed at which Quicksilver works. So, for those using SVN for web development (or any other use), this is a great way to quickly check the status of a file/directory, add new files, and make a commit with a message. As a speed-related note, get used to typing svst, sva, and svc for quick access to the most used commands.

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• 5.14.07 VirtualBox: Open Source Virtualization posted in Geekery

  VirtualBox is an Open Source x86 virtualization product available for OS X. Functioning along the lines of Parallels, but free, I’ve recently gotten XP up and running on my Intel based MacBook Pro and have Internet Explorer versions 5-7 open for testing my websites without having to boot up my old PC. In fact, now I can sell my PC ;). VirtualBox is simple, powerful and easy on the eyes. I had XP up and running in 30 minutes, and 27 of that was the actual XP install. I especially recommend this product if you’re a web developer who needs to test websites cross-platform. I’m currently working on figuring out how to approach a localhost test server in a way that will let me access it from both platforms while I’m working. Once I get that down, I’ll let you know how I did it ;).

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• 4.23.07 A Few Thoughts on Coda posted in Web Design

  I seem to be the only one not thinking of switching my entire web development platform to Coda. I’m not saying it couldn’t ever happen, but in my last 2 hours of experimenting I’ve been suffering from Dreamweaver flashbacks.

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• 4.20.07 Wrapping Up on Subversion posted in Geekery

  Well, it’s been a fun ride. I’ve done my best to share my experiences and hopefully a few people learned along with me. I know that Subversion has become a great part of my development cycle and that I will continue to use it and develop similar work cycles into the future. As a final hoorah for the series, I’m just going to mention a few things…

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• 4.18.07 The TextMate Subversion Bundle posted in Geekery

  Now that you’ve got Subversion working and have a basic understanding of the command line, I’ll show you how I make life a little easier for myself. I experimented with a few graphical clients but actually found working with the TextMate Subversion Bundle to be the easiest way to go. If you need to update your bundle, see the instructions below, otherwise, jump to the second section!

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