Chaos Server

Things don’t have to change the world to be important. - Steve Jobs The saying goes that every family needs a doctor and a lawyer. Something like that. Though in this past few decades the need for the family IT technician has clearly arisen. My circle of friends tends to serve that role for our families and much as an IT professional will joke to his savvy friends about dealing with clients, so we talk with one another about the family issues and excitement that we are having. One of my favorite positive stories come from the college days when most of us we dual booting, triple booting, quadruple booting out machines. One of my friends said over the summer he walked in to find his mom on his machine happily writing up a letter in StarWriter under OS/2 with no clue that she was on the cutting edge of computing technologies. Recently I have been seeing my family slowly making the shift from Windows and Blackberries onto Apples and iPhones. It's an interesting shift. Four year...

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 I generate all this content and I lose a lot of it.  There was a time when my website was fully updated using a bizarre local workflow of text files and AppleScript.  As much as it was a person Rube Goldberg machine, it made me happy to know that the system of record of all of my stuff was on my computer and that was pushed up into the cloud.  You know - so centuries after I was gone archeologists could use the forensics of my hard drive to reconstruct my life.  Assuming someone saved my hard drive for centuries after I was gone and cared. 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 somewh...

It's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, long-term, really excited about it - Mark Zuckerberg I'm used to getting little bits of money for my birthday from parents or my grandparents and being told that I'm supposed to spend the money on "something fun." You know how that goes, they are trying to get you to treat yourself to something you wouldn't normally buy because it would be too expensive. 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...