Git: Using a branch to hold unfinished work

I keep my company's "static" web pages in version control. This has saved my bacon more than once. We used to use CVS, but we've recently switched to Git, which has worked out nicely so far. We were very happy with CVS, but several tandem projects had resulted in …

Getting Comfortable with Spaces in Leopard

Last night Bridget and I got to talking about some of our favorite things on OS X. The conversation came around to Spaces, as I think it usually does when you are talking about Leopard. Spaces and I have had an on-and-off relationship ever since the first developer's …

And now for something completely different...

This post is purely mommy, so if you aren't interested, please move on. Something geeky will come along soon.

Okay. If you're still reading this, you are a Mommy or you are actually interested in my mommyish side at least. I read lots of great mommy blogs and many of …

My App Has Been Named!

I know you thought you'd never hear from me about this again, but I have finally Named My App. Thanks again to all for the great suggestions. They were so much better than I could have come up with.

And the winner is…

Moviesaurus Rex from Brendan Cullen.

I really liked …

Accessing VPN from Parallels

I ran into a rather annoying problem with my virtual PCs tonight. I am trying to test a web application running on my staging box in the office. I'm connected to the corporate network via VPN and using the dev box's private URL. This all works great, until I tried to …

Where has my focus gone?

Just a short post because I have an incredibly busy day ahead of me. But, I'd like to know where my focus has gone. Does somebody have it? Can they please return it? I've looked everywhere: under the bed, in the couch cushions, all the closets, in the garage. It's …

Name that App!

In my day job, I have the extreme pleasure of coding in Objective-C. Eventually, I will be tasked with porting our web applications over to a language and framework stack that is a bit more web-application-friendly. Naturally, my first thought is Ruby.

In order to …

Entering Dates: Use Fewer Options, Not More

A few weeks back the CWSA held a roundtable discussion about form design and development. You were there, weren't you?

One of the topics brought up was how to enter in dates. Date pickers can be clumsy and ugly, with a host of browser compatibility issues. Providing …

Of Going to the Park, Making New Friends, and Being Shy

We went to the park today. I haven't been there since last year when a group of rowdy kids decided it would be fun to push then two-year-old Timmy around on the jungle gym. That experience made me a little nervous about going back, but the kids needed to burn off some …

Listening

"Mommy, I got a burn in my eye." says Timmy.

"That's right, because you jumped on me when I had hot coffee."

"Yeah."

"That's why Mommy tells you not to jump on me when I have hot coffee. Do you think you'll listen now when Mommy tells you not to do …

Everything Broke!

Last night we had a pretty nice thunderstorm. It wasn't as bad as some of the others we've had, but there was some spectacular cloud-to-ground lightning. One bolt took out our utility pole. Ray went out to take a look after we lost our power and found shrapnel in the …

Its the Small Things

It truly is the small things in life. I love roses. I used to have some beautiful ones on the side of our house. Unfortunately, rose bushes take almost as much care and attention as my kids--no joke! Once they came along, the roses were neglected and now I've got …

Vacation Bible School

Today was the first day of VBS for Timmy. He was pretty excited to go, although he didn't really understand what it was going to be. He excitedly put on his special t-shirt (a yellow one he picked out with an iron-on we got at registration) and dutifully carried a …

Screen for Ruby

I've been learning Ruby and Rails the past week or so and I really do love it. However, I have lots of terminal tabs open and this was getting quite annoying. One for MySQL, one for the server, one for the Rails console, etc. Then today I ran across a post in the …

Spiderman 3

We were really excited to see this movie. My son and I loved the first two and he just couldn't wait to see the third one. So, naturally we had really high hopes. I popped the DVD in yesterday afternoon after their nap.

Here there be spoilers

Before I go any further, …

The Apps I Use

I've wanted to do one of these posts ever since I saw Brendan's a few months ago. I just haven't had the time until now. Anyway, here goes:

EagleFiler

I can't say enough good things about EagleFiler. This is my brain. I dump anything into it that I want to be able …

And here we go!

The house is on the market--officially. Somehow, I expected something to change when the sign went into the ground. I thought there would be something different in the air. Perhaps our neighbors would look at us differently. People might stare as they drive …

I'm Naked!

With all the problems with Permalinks lately, you might be wondering if I've lost my fabulous theme as well. Nope. I'm naked today.

April 9th is CSS Naked Day this year. Today web developers and designers all around the world will be showing off their mastery of web …

Fun with Permalinks

The two or three of you out there who do read my blog will have been noticing some rather frustrating problems. They are all my fault. I apologize. Here's what happened, just to explain and to make sure I don't make the mistake again.

I recently upgraded WordPress on …

I'm Naked!

With all the problems with Permalinks lately, you might be wondering if I've lost my fabulous theme as well. Nope. I'm naked today.

April 9th is CSS Naked Day this year. Today web developers and designers all around the world will be showing off their mastery of web …