who wanted to know if her RSS Reader was updating. Let me help. I love you.…

My wife got me started listening to James Morrison, and I'm a fan for sure.  I really wish he got some radio play here.  Interwebs to the rescue... This Boy Call the Police These are from his earlier album.  We just got his new album and it's different but it's…

I made the mistake of upgrading from Fusion 1.1.3 on my MacBook Pro to 2.  First, while I'm ranting, let me just say that VMWare's upgrade process for Fusion is something right out of 1992.  But let's say you do go ahead and upgrade.  Here's what you're in…

When Mike gave his keynote (.ogg) at FSOSS 06, he emphasized the fact that "small is beautiful" when it comes to open source contributions.  It's a very inviting message to those who are just starting out, and one that I've often repeated to my students as they get…

So I'm not done talking about tools tonight...you have to watch this talk on dtrace, and do so now.  I'm laughing as I type this, it's so funny and interesting.  Well done, Bryan Cantrill.…

Today I was treated to a talk by my colleague Jordan Anastasiade on Eclipse WTP bug fixing.  In 45 minutes he went through the structure of Eclipse, showed us how WTP works, demonstrated a bug in the tool, and proceeded to fix it right down to creating the patch, explaining…

This is so bad I can't stand to retype it and look at it again.  Sickening. UPDATE (June 5, 2009): thankfully, justice has been served.  Awesome.…

So I'm trying to get my wife set-up on her new Mac, and everything works great...except you, Gmail.  What's your problem?  Supposedly you love Mac.  And yet when she tries to do the most basic of things, you feign ignorance.  I mean honestly, what's up with that (and that)…

The Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) is scheduled for Oct 23 and Oct 24, and online registration is open.  There are various early bird rates, so register early.  This year's line-up includes many familiar Mozilla faces: Stuart Parmenter Dan Mosedale David Eaves Frank Hecker Mark Surman Johnathan Nightingale…

Today in class I needed to run a custom patched build on a remote Linux box, but only had a Win32 machine in our classroom.  Luckily, one of the students showed me Xming, and combined with PuTTY, I was in business!  The best part is that this lovely little X…