Monthly Archives: August 2007

Cool – my first bug for Rails.. and they fixed it.. nice!

I filed this bug on the ‘to_xml’ method of ActiveRecord I filed this bug with low expectations. Previous bug filings at other projects generally don’t get a lot of attention since the developers are usually swamped. I was very pleased … Continue reading

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This is so true

Paul Graham’s post on keeping a program in ones head. I cannot stand distractions when I’m trying to get things done. It is always good when I learn that I’m not alone on this topic. For example, I’ve read this … Continue reading

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Adobe just announces Flash 9 to support H.264 and AAC

Adobe just made an announcement about their new codec support in Flash 9. This is being released to labs tonight and will probably go out in a general update in the very near future. This comes right after one of … Continue reading

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Brad Fitz on the Social Graph (mentions Plaxo)

Plaxo is also doing interesting stuff Wow, more recognition for the big shift at Plaxo from an engineer I respect. Brad Fitzpatrick wrote most of LiveJournal and probably some important parts of SixApart’s architecture. He just did a great brain … Continue reading

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Tod gets Valleywag’d

Heavy’s NSFW Inventory with Branded Ads Interesting side note. Tod’s post is almost 8 days old at this point.

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Damn – missed California Extreme

I didn’t have it on the calendar and none of my buddies did either, so I missed it this year. Damn.

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Linuxworld

I went to LinuxWorld for the first time yesterday. I don’t think I need to go back again. It really wasn’t bad, it just that it was not that interesting. I just didn’t see any ground breaking technology. Most of … Continue reading

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Mortgages are now 8%

Wells Fargo, one of the nation’s largest mortgage backers, raised the interest rates on it 30-year, fixed-rate, non-conforming (AKA jumbo) loan to 8 percent last week. It is now up from 6.875 percent. Other lenders will probably follow the lead. … Continue reading

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