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tumbling around…

I’m due for another semi-annual update or some such. Work is good; progress continues on the "Calendar and Contacts Server", which is unfortunately the official name of the open source version of our CalDAV / CardDAV service. I’ve been enjoying … Continue reading

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Automator: Variable stacking

Shortly after discovering the existence of variables as real drag-n-droppable objects in Applescript Studio, I ran smack into a big limitation: the linear flow of an Automator workflow does not seem to allow for storing and recalling multiple values at … Continue reading

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php 5.3: short_open_tag default has changed!

Snow Leopard Server includes an upgrade of PHP to version 5.3. This version has a changed default for the “short_open_tag” option as compared to the version that shipped in Leopard server. The difference is that short_open_tag is now disabled by … Continue reading

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Blog Post

Hi again. Been a while… After about a year on Apple’s customer software seeding team, I scooped up an opportunity to move to software engineering proper, and now work in Apple’s Mac OS X Server organization on the iCal Server … Continue reading

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Thanks Rachel!

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#29171520 She’s the most adorable newscaster of our time because: * She is either genuine, or good enough to fool me. Either way, I’m satisfied in this respect. * She’s one of the very few in the mainstream who attempts … Continue reading

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Winterland wondertime

It’s not snowy or anything in San Jose, however I still present to you the following, in celebration of the times: http://dreness.com/media/winter_wonderland.m4a This is a cut from a collection of live sets from Wynton Marsalis (and several variations on his septet) … Continue reading

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oops

I forgot to localize an image in this post, instead linking directly to it… I know better, but I guess not that time. Anyway, of course now it’s gone… and so I’ve had to delete it and then retroactively re-title … Continue reading

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Instamapper

Instamapper is kinda nifty. Upload GPS coords from a mobile device to a web service, plot them on google maps. Simple and fun! Here’s my bike ride home from coffee:   They have an iPhone app called GPS Tracker that … Continue reading

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Infinity!

“Screen Sharing” (aka VNC) between two Mac OS X machines, each connected to the other. Heading to Austin in a couple hours; spending the week there on bidness.

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more motion

Times of change are rapidly approaching! Again! I’m expecting an offer for this job sometime this week. Heading to Austin next week to help host a beta run of an upcoming Apple training course for which I’m developing part of … Continue reading

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