One of the reasons why I’ve been too busy to write on my blog lately is that we recently moved into to a new studio. We had a lot of preparation to do before we moved in and are finally getting settled in the new space. We took the space from… To this… As you can see.. we have lots of natural light for the entire team… I...

It just occurred to me that my first Skitch was on July 7th, 2007. 7/7/7. I’ve been meaning to post an article about how Skitch has changed the way our team approaches reporting bugs and communicating ideas visually. First of all, the Skitch web site advertises it (see video) as a fun tool for playing with photos and sharing stuff with...

In a new article on A List Apart, Jeffrey Zeldman writes: “Some who don???t understand web design nevertheless have the job of creating websites or supervising web designers and developers. Others who don???t understand web design are nevertheless professionally charged with evaluating it on behalf of the rest of us. Those who understand...

In a new article on A List Apart, Jeffrey Zeldman writes: “Some who don???t understand web design nevertheless have the job of creating websites or supervising web designers and developers. Others who don???t understand web design are nevertheless professionally charged with evaluating it on behalf of the rest of us. Those who understand...

It just occurred to me that my first Skitch was on July 7th, 2007. 7/7/7. I’ve been meaning to post an article about how Skitch has changed the way our team approaches reporting bugs and communicating ideas visually. First of all, the Skitch web site advertises it (see video) as a fun tool for playing with photos and sharing stuff with...

It just occurred to me that my first Skitch was on July 7th, 2007. 7/7/7. I’ve been meaning to post an article about how Skitch has changed the way our team approaches reporting bugs and communicating ideas visually. First of all, the Skitch web site advertises it (see video) as a fun tool for playing with photos and sharing stuff with...

Not terribly long ago, I announced Active Delegate, which was a really lightweight plugin that I developed to allow models to talk to multiple databases for specific methods. The plugin worked great for really simple situations, like individual models.. but when it came time to test with associations it fell apart. I haven’t had a chance...

Not terribly long ago, I announced Active Delegate, which was a really lightweight plugin that I developed to allow models to talk to multiple databases for specific methods. The plugin worked great for really simple situations, like individual models.. but when it came time to test with associations it fell apart. I haven’t had a chance...

If you upgraded to OS X Leopard and are running MySQL from the MySQL.com installer1, you might be having some problems with starting it from the GUI interface. There isn’t a fix from MySQL yet, so to get around that… you can run it from the command-line. Start MySQL from the command line cd /usr/local/mysql; ./bin/mysqld_safe &...

If you upgraded to OS X Leopard and are running MySQL from the MySQL.com installer1, you might be having some problems with starting it from the GUI interface. There isn’t a fix from MySQL yet, so to get around that… you can run it from the command-line. Start MySQL from the command line cd /usr/local/mysql; ./bin/mysqld_safe &...

If you previously followed my article, Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, second edition and are now upgrading to OS X Leopard, you’ll want to make a few adjustments to your setup. First of all, it’s great that Apple has decided to provide Ruby on Rails out of the box. ~ > gem list rails *** LOCAL GEMS *** rails...

If you previously followed my article, Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, second edition and are now upgrading to OS X Leopard, you’ll want to make a few adjustments to your setup. First of all, it’s great that Apple has decided to provide Ruby on Rails out of the box. ~ > gem list rails *** LOCAL GEMS *** rails...

If you’re using Skitch and the new Spaces in OS X Leopard, I would encourage you to set the following up. Uploaded with Skitch! This will allow you to use Skitch on any Space without needing to move it around. Took me a few minutes to figure out that I could set it up like this. As you can see… I’m on Leopard now… only...

If you’re using Skitch and the new Spaces in OS X Leopard, I would encourage you to set the following up. Uploaded with Skitch! This will allow you to use Skitch on any Space without needing to move it around. Took me a few minutes to figure out that I could set it up like this. As you can see… I’m on Leopard now… only...

I saw this photo of the Microsoft team from 1978 on Anselm’s flickr and thought, “Hmm, that looks like Chad Fowler!” Could this be Chad Fowler’s dirty little secret?.. Happy Saturday!