Some Guy's Blog

I attended a NovaJug meeting last night with Neal Ford talking about Domain Specific Languages and Patrick Peak who spoke about Hibernate. Domain Specific Languages seem like something I’ll keep my eye on, but are nowhere close to being used in real applications today. I’m intrigued by some of the possibilities, but if, as in [...]

Richmond RING I am the membership chairman for the Richmond Real Estate Investors Networking Group. It’s a group that has a handful of experienced real-estate investors, willing to share their knowledge. I’ve already learned a lot from the group, and I hope it continues to thrive despite the poor showings from the last two months. [...]

The top 54 album list has been compiled.  I hope to post at least one mini-review a week to get myself into the habit of posting again.  The first one is already in the can, but I hope to have some more ready to go so that I can guarantee to have you one every Friday. [...]

I’ve tried out ecto, and things were going well until it mysteriously lost its outer window?  I don’t have time to be tracking down bugs in my blog posting client, so I decided to try BlogJet.  I know you may not care, but there it is anyway.

I managed to get two items crossed off my blog to-do list: I got sidebar elements encapsulated (less than one line of code) and then the CSS and images ready. CSS is one of the weaker parts of my portfolio, but at least I have something I can call my own. As I learn more [...]

Ecto has won the desktop blogging client tournament I’ve held by supporting most of the functionality I’d expect from such a client. I’ll make sure to keep you updated with how it goes.

TextDrive is offering another round of lifetime hosting sales. I participated in the second round (VCII) and couldn’t be more pleased with what I have received thus far, and it’s only been a few months. TxD is improving very, very quickly, and they have some very visibly intelligent people working for them and affiliated with [...]

I’m very excited to be working on a new blog engine named typo. For the first time, my blog is written in an language and platform that I can easily alter, so that the entire blog is a vehicle for expression instead of only the articles. You’ll also notice that I’ve integrated my two blogs [...]