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So, my recent problems with Zope 3 that were making me want to resume smoking? Yeah, I’m a smoker again. Two months clean. The stress just got to be too much.I reported my problems to the community, with long and detailed explanations and explorations and pleas for help. The responses? Very few. Far fewer than I would have hoped. I had to scrap upgrading a customer to Zope 3.3 after losing a day of...

There’s a great set of lines delivered by Lloyd Bridges in Airplane:Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.Sometimes I love Zope 3. Other times, it makes me start to sound like McCroskey. I haven’t smoked now in two months,...

Ian Bicking wrote a Zope 3 Critique a couple of weeks or so ago, partially in response to a critique by Jean-Marc Orliaguet. I’ve wanted to write a response of my own, but time has not allowed it. Now, I’d like to use a few posts to post my own responses to a few items.The first point I’d like to address comes under headline 3, The importance of standards: I personally don’t care much about namespaces....

I know that I haven’t posted much lately. I do have a couple of long draft pieces saved that I haven’t had time to finish. I don’t know if I’ll get back to them, but I’ll try.I’ve been looking at a lot of different things recently, looking for new inspirations, tools, and/or chances to widen my understanding. I find myself growing increasingly fond of a couple of things in particular: Seaside on the...

I’ve surprised myself by starting to enjoy doing browser-side development in CSS and JavaScript more than I enjoy the server side. Prototype, Scriptaculous, LowPro, and a comfortably growing in-house library have gone a long way towards helping with this shift, along with finally getting down into the guts of CSS and learning about the box model. Tools like FireBug and the Web Developer Toolbar for...

I saw a link today from Hack The Planet titled “What’s new in JavaScript 1.7: Lisp/Python!”, pointing to a “new in JavaScript 1.7” page at developer.mozilla.org.So, of course I had to follow this and see what he meant. Sure enough, JavaScript 1.7 starts to look a bit more like Python in some places. From the “What’s new” document, this is an Array Comprehensions example:var ten_squares = [i * i for...

Congratulations to Allan Odgaard and everyone else involved with TextMate on winning an Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X Developer Tool. TextMate has so greatly improved my development life, finally allowing me to (where possible) work on my desktops / laptop instead of on a development server as I’ve done for so many years.A little bit of my development day today: Using Mac OS X terminal to test...

These are absolutely amazing. Phill Ryu held a Fake Leopard Screenshot Contest in anticipation of next week’s Apple Developer Conference which will unveil the next version of Mac OS X. Some of these people put a lot of time into these designs and some of theme are quite interesting. The winning shots by Eric Patterson are quite nice, going for user experience: more views of data “your way”, nice collections...

The staggering array of personal shit management (PSM) tools for Mac OS X seems to be growing, constantly. There are Outliners, Notebooks, personal hierarchical databases, and so on.Many of the tools may look similar on the surface. Besides downloading all of the trials or crawling through the archives of About This Particular Outliner, how can you decide which tool may be right for you? Many companies...

A post that’s been making the rounds lately, it seems, is Tim Bray’s “On Ruby”. Bray praises Ruby as being “remarkably, perhaps irresistibly, attractive,” especially for people (like Bray) who are proficient in Perl and Java. As some see Bray’s post as a pro-dynamic-language post as much as (or more than) a pro-Ruby post, I finally decided to take a read.As I was reading, this paragraph jumped out...

I’m not sure what this indicates about me, but I felt such an overwhelming air of excitement and relief that I almost - almost! - had a little tear in my eye when I saw this announcement from the OmniGroup. Omni’s new secret product that’s no longer a secret is (oh boy oh boy oh boy!): OmniPlan. Project management software.Why am I so excited about project management software? Because there’s very...

If you ban the burning of the American Flag because it supposedly desecrates what our soldiers have died to protect (funny - I don’t see soldiers out protecting the flag over the supermarket from lightning), shouldn’t there also be a ban on using the flag to bring everyone down to “celebrate their independence from high prices at your local car dealer and/or furniture warehouse Fourth of July Independence...

Terrific targeted advertising: The current ad that appears on the main page for Sci-Fi channel’s excellent new Battlestar Galactica series is for Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005.The ad? It just says “Cylons. Why debugging matters.”I think that’s the first good ad I’ve seen placed by Microsoft in a long time. For those unfamiliar with Battlestar Galactica, especially the new series, the basic premise...

A nice post from 43Folders came across my desk today pointing towards a post by Eric Schmidt about Using OmniOutliner Pro and Kinkless GTD in Law School. Schmidt first covers how he uses OmniOutliner Pro to take and manage notes for his law courses. One significant Pro feature in OmniOutliner is the ability to have Sections - a navigable list of top level outline elements. Kinkless GTD uses these...

Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. This is about the Mac OS X applications I can’t live without, and some mentions of ones that I’ve still never found use for.Can’t Live WithoutQuicksilverThe ultimate quick launch and system control tool, Quicksilver is like the perfect marriage of graphical and command like control. Before Quicksilver I was an avid user of Launchbar. At heart, both of these...

A couple of months ago, we started work on a major rewrite of one of our core sites. What started as a small and specialized e-commerce service a few years ago has grown mightily over those same years. The architecture, however, has hit a limit - especially when compared to the large push for what we want to do (and can do) next. The current site works great and handles its load and duties very well....

Last night I floated like a ghost past the strip club, under the freeway, over the railroad tracks, past the big electric sign and refrigeration companies and worn out corners until I got to the super-center. I needed milk, inner tubes for my bike, and dog treats. Of course, my cart started filling up with much more than just that. And in the middle of my 11pm shopping excursion I stumbled across...