iLife '08
Posted by Jim Jagielski on Tuesday, August 14. 2007 in Junk Drawer
Wow.
iPhoto requires an immediate software upgrade. iDVD crashes and requires removing old themes and convincing the installer to reinstall them. iMovie crashes when updating an iPhoto library. iMovie is unable to open or use old iMovie HD projects with anything close to reliability.
I don't use iWeb and have been afraid to even try Garageband now...
I've never had anything even remotely close to this kind of trouble with any Apple product (h/w or s/w) ever before... weird.
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Tiny tidbits
Posted by Jim Jagielski on Thursday, August 2. 2007 in Junk Drawer
As fun as vacations are, they don't seem as relaxing as they used to be. The reason is obvious: what with cell phones and now near universal cell and Net access, you are never, truly "away." So you always feel that pull... That's a darn shame.
I miss the days when registrars were just, well, registrars.
Yep, I've been bitten by the photography bug. Seems v. common now, especially among techies.
IMO, Java is a success despite the best intentions of entities continually trying to *force* it to be a success. But I don't know how much longer that will last.
Eileen and I are coming up on our 21st wedding anniversary. 21. Years. Where did the time go?
So PHP4 is being end-of-lifed at the end of the year. I wonder what 20/20 hindsight a year from now will determine about that decision...
I wish I could find a cheap MacMini or Mac Cube. Like $200. Or even an iBook around that price. So far, no luck.
Why am I always running out of disk space?
I should have waited and gotten the Intel Quad MacPro instead of the Quad G5... rats.
Rise of the Silver Surfer wasn't as good as I hoped, but wasn't as bad as I feared. Transformers on the other hand was spot-on regarding my expectations. But the bots were very visually confusing, imo... And I'm eagerly awaiting Iron Man.
"Milk was a bad choice"
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Long time
Posted by Jim Jagielski on Thursday, July 5. 2007 in Junk Drawer
Geez... it's been almost a month since I last blogged... Obviously, I still don't make it a priority and when blog-thoughts pop into the old noggin, I think "Nah, that would make a pretty bogus and meaningless entry" and so don't post anything... I still feel that blog entries need to be "important", and I guess my standards are too high (and therefore I self-censor a lot more than I should).
So where to start:
Events are manna from heaven. Although I agree that we should continue making Apache more event "aware", I remain unconvinced that event-based servers are, in and of themselves, "better" especially as the issues which are problematic for non-event-based servers become resolved and improved. The cool thing about Apache MPMs is that *you* decide which impl makes sense for your environment; no "one size fits all" approach.
For people using XML/XSLT and making the move from PHP4 to PHP5, xslt-php4-to-php5.php and domxml-php4-to-php5.php save you some time until you can port the code the right way.
JSR 315
RMS: Open mouth, insert foot
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Sliced bread
Posted by Jim Jagielski on Friday, April 6. 2007 in Junk Drawer
For anyone who does Cat5/5e cabling, these things are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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iTerm
Posted by Jim Jagielski on Tuesday, March 27. 2007 in Junk Drawer
As someone who spends the vast majority of his time within the shell environment of OS X, I find myself using (and enjoying) iTerm more and more over Terminal. I like the tabbed windows and it just "feels" like a cleaner, more simple interface. I still wish there was even more of a border on the bottom (and not one that's gray), but that's a minor point.
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