This past Tuesday was my one year anniversary at OSAF. It has been a great experience for me, not only in the technical dimension but in the community dimension. Most of my involvement in the open source community was due to XML/Java stuff that I did at the ASF, and perhaps a little bit due to my involvement with pyblosxom. In the past year, I...

During OSCON back in July, I wrote a bit about svk, an interesting version control system that can act as a proxy for Subversion and CVS. svk allows you to use a subversion like command set, and allows some of the distributed features of systems like arch or bitkeeper. I've been interested in playing with it, and got as far as installing the...

During OSCON back in July, I wrote a bit about svk, an interesting version control system that can act as a proxy for Subversion and CVS. svk allows you to use a subversion like command set, and allows some of the distributed features of systems like arch or bitkeeper. I've been interested in playing with it, and got as far as installing the...

We're not subscribers to Netflix, but I like their notion of an "interest queue". In addition to the queue, there's what I'll call you interest working set, which is 3 DVDs. When you return an item from working set, you get the next item from the queue. I'd love to have a queue like this for books, and I'd also like to be able to specify...

We're not subscribers to Netflix, but I like their notion of an "interest queue". In addition to the queue, there's what I'll call you interest working set, which is 3 DVDs. When you return an item from working set, you get the next item from the queue. I'd love to have a queue like this for books, and I'd also like to be able to specify...

Most of you who care probably already know that we did the release of Chandler 0.4 this week. You can read Mitch's blog for some additional details, Lisa's blog for some perspective on the release, and Oren's blog for a brief user report. This is still a bleeding edge release. I hope this is the last time that I'll have to write that, but we'll...

Most of you who care probably already know that we did the release of Chandler 0.4 this week. You can read Mitch's blog for some additional details, Lisa's blog for some perspective on the release, and Oren's blog for a brief user report. This is still a bleeding edge release. I hope this is the last time that I'll have to write that, but we'll...

I'll be down in San Francisco from Nov 1 through Nov 4 for a visit to the OSAF home office. The days are pretty full, but I have a few evenings free, so if people are interested in getting together, leave a comment or send e-mail.

I'll be down in San Francisco from Nov 1 through Nov 4 for a visit to the OSAF home office. The days are pretty full, but I have a few evenings free, so if people are interested in getting together, leave a comment or send e-mail.

I read Merlin's tip on using QuickSilver's append to file command to manage a Getting Things Done inbox list. My lists are outlines in OmniOutliner, but I wanted to be able to do the same thing. Below is an AppleScript that you can invoke from QuickSilver, which will take the contents of the clipboard and append it to the children of a topic...

I read Merlin's tip on using QuickSilver's append to file command to manage a Getting Things Done inbox list. My lists are outlines in OmniOutliner, but I wanted to be able to do the same thing. Below is an AppleScript that you can invoke from QuickSilver, which will take the contents of the clipboard and append it to the children of a topic...

One of the great things about NetNewsWire 2.0 is the new tabbed browser, which (at least for me) can open more tabs than Firefox and saves tabs between application sessions (and crashes). NetNewsWire saves the list of open tabs in the file ~/Library/Application\ Support/NetNewsWire/Tabs.plist. I've made use of this because the current version...

One of the great things about NetNewsWire 2.0 is the new tabbed browser, which (at least for me) can open more tabs than Firefox and saves tabs between application sessions (and crashes). NetNewsWire saves the list of open tabs in the file ~/Library/Application\ Support/NetNewsWire/Tabs.plist. I've made use of this because the current version...

ApacheCon 2004 will start 5 weeks from today, so if you haven't registered yet, procrastination time is coming to an end. ApacheCon is a relatively small and highly technical conference. I really like the atomsphere, the opportunity to sit down and spend time talking with people. PyCon and ApacheCon are my favorites among the tech conferences...

ApacheCon 2004 will start 5 weeks from today, so if you haven't registered yet, procrastination time is coming to an end. ApacheCon is a relatively small and highly technical conference. I really like the atomsphere, the opportunity to sit down and spend time talking with people. PyCon and ApacheCon are my favorites among the tech conferences...