Category: Technology
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IRC Client for OS X
I’m looking for an IRC client for OS X. I’ve run acros several but I’m not sure which will fit my needs. Here are the current candidates: Colloquy Irssix Ircle (gotta love that name) X-Chat Aqua (A port of the popular Linux IRC client) I’m leaning toward X-Chat Aqua, but would like to hear other…
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Disable infrared receiver on Apple computers
I’ve had this annoyance for a while now and was too lazy to Google it. I have an iPhone docking station, an iPod docking station and my Apple MacBook.
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Why I don’t typically use any browser other than Firefox
I’ve talked about Internet Browser security briefly before, but I thought it might be best to follow up with a commonsense commentary on why I favor Firefox over other browsers. On March 18, 2009, TippingPoint‘s Charlie Miller, for the second year in a row, hacked an Apple OS-X based laptop in mere seconds. The source…
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Building Scalable Web-Based Applications
Scalable web-based applications has been getting a lot of air-play on social networks like Twitter lately, mostly because Twitter has been overcome by scability issues and the service unreliable. Having an unreliable internet service is embarassing and unacceptable. There is no better way to kill your brand image than to have your viral social media…
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Apple clearly has Nintendo in its sights
As if it wasn’t obvious each of the last Apple developer’s conferences, Apple has gaming on it’s mind and Nintendo and Sony firmly clearly on it’s radar. Each of the last keynote addresses about the iPhone have featured EA or some game developer. The latest salvo seems like it will go off more like an…
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Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X
If you are looking for a MySQL admin tool that isn’t phpMyAdmin, Sequel Pro may just fit the bill. A community project that in the process of expanding beyond MySQL to other DBMSs like PostgresSQL, MS SQL Server, it looks like it has a lot of potential and decent management of the project. The UI…
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SpringSource
I love Spring… and the software framework is pretty good, too. Having said that, I find it funny that the SpringSource site uses the CMS Drupal.