It would be hard to talk about usability without the ubiquitous iPod coming to mind. Apple likes the slogan “it just works,” and they spend a lot of time, energy and money painting anything by Microsoft as for business, too technical, and difficult to work with. I’m certainly no Apple fanboy, and though I use [...]

One of the least discussed features of Subversion is the post-commit hook, or really any of the built-in hooks that Subversion offers. These hooks are executed at a variety of different times, and the one I’m focusing on is the one that is executed just after you commit changes to the repository.

I just finished reading a fantastic biography of John Adams, largely composed by correspondence and other papers that John Adams wrote during his lifetime. The vast amount of paper records that survived him have given rise to one of my most pressing questions – how those of us in the digital age will be remembered.

Freelance Switch once did a blog entry on the benefits of charging by the project, rather than by the hour. They argue that the benefits outweigh the costs, including the benefit of increasing efficiency.

PHP has rung the death knell for PHP 4, announcing today that PHP has reached it’s effective end of life.