Call For Software To Review

The MacZealot's reviews section is incredibly dated and in poor condition I think. Because of this, I'm wanting to post a few new reviews to put some more modern and interesting titles on the site.

If you're interested in having your software seen by a several …

Year Zero: How To Be Viral

Matt Linderman: While record labels bemoan their sad plight, artists like Nine Inch Nails are coming up with creative ways to inject mystery and playfulness into the music promotion game. The elaborate campaign for NIN's new "Year Zero" album - 42 Entertainment is the …

BleakHouse: Rails Leak Tracker

evan weaver: BleakHouse is a Rails plugin for finding memory leaks. It tracks ObjectSpace for your entire app, and produces charts of references by controller, by action, and by object class.

Alec Baldwin wants to leave 30 Rock

Alec Baldwin wants to leave 30 Rock: Cancel the second season if Baldwin won't be a part of it. He makes the show.

Imus Challenges American Morning

Imus Challenges American Morning

Imus' ratings are up 39%. What better way to wake up in the morning than a 90 year old cowboy? I love that guy.

10.4.9 & DHCP Issues

Has anyone else run into this issue since upgrading to 10.4.9. My MacBook Pro will completely refuse to work via Airport. Disabling & reenabling Airport doesn't help. Only solution is restarting.

Apr  3 15:16:10 Phoebe configd[35]: DHCP en2: INIT transmit failed

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Porchlight Adds Case Numbers

Porchlight, the Web-based bug tracker put out by my company just received a big new feature: case numbers. I have received several requests for this and I'm glad to finally get it implemented. Why did I call them case numbers instead of bug numbers? Hmmm.

Porchlight …

Imus Suspended: I?m Outraged

I really wanted to bite my tongue in an attempt to not lash out as how utterly stupid it is for both CBS and NBC to suspend Don Imus for two weeks, but I can't.

I'm even more furious after listening to Imus bow to the feet of Al Sharpton on his radio show and then …

On The Demise Of Don Imus

I promise this is the last thing I'll say about the Don Imus travesty. I made my feelings known in my previous post. I want to share with you a piece written by Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star (and formerly ESPN).

Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black …

Nappy Is The New N Word

Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases

Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases: Each of our clients gets a schema on one of the database boxes. There are multiple client schemas per database. When a box becomes over utilized we get another box and move schemas around.

Magic Multi-Connections

Magic Multi-Connections: Magic Multi-Connections allows you to write your models once, and use them for multiple database Rails databases at the same time. How? Using magical namespacing.

RubyOSA

RubyOSA: I've never really learned AppleScript, but I know Ruby. Maybe this will get me into the whole scripting thing.

Scripting With RubyOSA

Scripting With RubyOSA: My latest article on MacZealots introduces RubyOSA and walks you through creating a few scripts.