Things don’t have to change the world to be important.- Steve Jobs
Thursday, November 22, 2012
You're Holding it Wrong
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Social Segmentation
App.net will combine the simplicity of cloud infrastructure with the power of web frameworks to deliver the best platform for developing social web applications.- Orian Marx
Now I am "in the cloud." Truly. My website updates are pushing into the cloud. My micro-updates are pushing into the cloud. My nerd updates are in the cloud. My source code? In the cloud. It's all up there somewhere as the system of record and sometimes it's not on my computer. In reality, in my day-to-day living and even in the grand scheme of things, I don't know why that should make a difference to me. But it does. There is something about knowing all the stuff that I create is sitting in my house. Physically.
Anyway that's how things are. I've also now fully segregated my three "social streams." So if you're interested in my all the nerdy stuff I'm working on in my personal time, my attendance of various Sacramento technical user groups, compliments about my Drobo or Google TV, than the right place to go is App.net (short) and Google+ (long). If you're interested in my nieces, nephews, vacations and other commentary the place to go is Twitter (short) and Facebook (long). If for some reason you're interested in what I do for a living, find me on LinkedIn.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Birthday Spending Spree
It's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, long-term, really excited about it- Mark Zuckerberg
This year I did a little bit of a technical shopping spree! First I got myself a subscription to App.net for no particular reason. I now segregate my online streams to personal (Twitter -> Facebook), professional (LinkedIn) and Nerd (App.net / Google+). Why not collect them all?
Second I purchased Coda from Panic Software. In my new gig I we do PHP development and I've been using Sublime Text since its basically the only text editor that supported my Retina MacBook Pro. Sublime Text is okay, but I've been avoiding purchasing it since I know at some point in nearish future TextWrangler will start supporting Retina and I would have the option to switch back to a free alternative. Yet I've been having a stare down with Coda. After getting it, I have no regrets! I've got the Git integration working for my work as well as for all my personal projects. And for my personal stuff that gets SFTP uploaded the publish action is all built in. It's fantastic.
Third and last - I got iA Writer for iOS. I've been doing a little bit of writing for NaNoWriMo and since I've been mostly using my iPad as a Desktop replacement I wanted a program that I can write in that will sync across all my devices. So iA Writer to Dropbox sync across everything? Perfect. And why not iCloud sync? Because it would require me to purchase iA Writer for Mac, and I don't see a point in that.
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