Just a quick pointer for anyone living in Canada – the Roomba Discovery (2.1) is on sale for $299 at Canadian Tire. This is a great price for the Roomba Discovery, which is an update to the original Roomba that adds quite a few improvements. The ones that affect me are easier to clean brushes […]
C++ is getting an upgrade one of these days. Herb Sutter is on the committee that’s doing the work, and he’s posted the highlights of the most recent standards committee meeting. My favourite is Auto type deduction. This means being able to simply use “auto” as the type when the compiler is perfectly capable of […]
The general concensus is that MSH.exe and “Microsoft Shell” were great names for the new shell, and that PowerShell is a terrible name. You’d think after the .NET naming fiasco Microsoft would have a new process for picking product names. I do a Start / Run… / “cmd” combination all the time to get a […]
I’ve got my own blog now at http://blogs.adobe.com/stevex. I’ll still post the usual stuff here (whatever that is), but stuff related to Form Designer or XFA I’ll post over there.
I’ll be dropping by BarCampOttawa tomorrow, probably not for the whole day but I’ll try to be there for the afternoon. It starts at 8:30am. What kind of geeks are you going to get out to a conference at 8:30am? It’s a good thing they promised StarBucks would be available, that’s all I’ve got to […]
I’m trying to learn Ruby and figured an IDE would help. I’ve been reading Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, which is a lot of fun to read (even teaches you stuff about Ruby), but once you get beyond the language syntax, the hard part about any new environment is finding your way around the libraries. […]
I usually love reading Joel Sposky’s stuff. His insights into the software business are usually right on. But I have a few problems with his recent article, The Development Abstraction Layer. The premise of his article is that software developers create products, and it’s the job of the development management to make the developer’s lives […]
Our new baby is here! Matthew John Edward Tibbett arrived on Thursday, March 23rd, at exactly 1pm. Mom & Baby are doing fine. I gave the little dude his own domain already (click through for a picture), and his own email address. Now I’m just waiting for Baby’s First Spam.
I have a real dilemma when it comes to writing web applications, and web hosting. I spent the last couple of days moving 8 different websites from one host to another, and in doing so, I had to dig into each web app to figure out where it stored some configuration information. They’re all PHP […]
I signed up for DreamHost using someone else’s promo code, which let me get a year’s hosting for $42.40 ($77 off) and they got $20 for the referral. Seems like a pretty good deal; so I created my own promo code. So sign up for DreamHost using promo code ‘stevex’ or via this link and you’ll get $77 off, […]