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One of the little touches I added to Able, which came from code originally in BrowserMob, was a nice little JDK logging formatter. It is designed to work with modern IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA being my personal favorite) and their ability to understand shorthand notation for classes.
As I was building BrowserMob, I was getting irritated by [...]

Very smart move by both the Merb and Rails project leaders:

Big news in the world of Ruby web frameworks: Merb and Rails will be merged.[From InfoQ: Merb Will Be Merged Into Rails 3.0 ]

I’ve been telling people for a while that Ruby has been following the Java path at an accelerated pace. Ruby [...]

Reposting Matt’s blog entry:

If you live in Portland, Oregon - or just happen to be in town - you might want to join us for some beers and tech talk tomorrow (Monday) night. Patrick Lightbody, Howard Lewis Ship and Matt Raible will be meeting around 6:30PM at the Rogue Distillery & Public House. [...]

I completely agree with Martin Fowler’s latest post:

The sweet spot, however is in making DSLs business-readable rather than business-writeable. If business people are able to look at the DSL code and understand it, then we can build a deep and rich communication channel between software development and the underlying domain.[From MF Bliki: BusinessReadableDSL]

We’re [...]

I’m loving the fact that FriendFeed is now showing pictures in my posts. To celebrate, here’s some pictures of my dog:

Found out that FriendFeed supports showing images in your blog posts as long as your blog emits MediaRSS. This is a test of that feature by using a tweaked version of the MediaRSS plugin for WordPress. It has supposedly been modified to be compatible with FriendFeed.
Here’s a nice picture of where I stayed during my [...]

If you haven’t seen it yet, now is your chance. I recommend watching them in this order: Volume 1, 3, 2, 4, and then finally 2.5 (Jack Black is in 2 and 2.5).
Volume 1

Volume 3

Volume 2

Volume 4

Volume 2.5

I’ve been looking for a decent blog publishing tool, but every time I think about it I realize that nothing is likely to be as easy to use as the FriendFeed bookmarklet. I’m completely in love with the FriendFeed bookmarklet and it’s super simple way to add media to your comments. I wish posting to [...]

I thought Ecto might be perfect for me, but then I just got let down In my last post, the following quote, when pasted in from the original NYT article, ended up with garbled text after the apostrophe in “Toyota’s”.

It’s likely due to the fact that it’s a special character vs. a basic [...]

I just added the FriendFeed widget to my blog, as well as updating the theme to something a lot nicer. Unfortunately, some weird CSS magic is going on where the widget’s text is way too big. I’ve tried adding CSS rules with !important, but they still aren’t being honored. Anyone care to take a look [...]