There’s a place in downtown Asheville called The Thirsty Monk. I was initially impressed the number of beers they had on tap. I’m pretty much a beer connoisseur. I love trying new beers, especially imports and microbrews. But I also love a good case of yellow domestic, like Coors Light or Bud Light… but they’re [...]

So I launched a site. It was using nice clean rewrites on my dev server (partly local, partly fedora 8). After launching to a godaddy server, i was getting the error: No input file specified.. I knew my redirects/rewrites should have been working. So, I did some searching, and after (yes, a gruelling 8 minutes), [...]

I’m getting sick of people claiming that bands just plain ‘suck’. These are the same people that would also agree with the old “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

A friend just turned me onto this Rails-based blog app. I’m going to check it out. I’m very interested in the idea of using a Rails-based blog app, since so many are limited in certain ways. Check it out: Typo. I do have to admit, though, that using TextMate and WordPress over XML/RPC is pretty [...]

So I’ve been referred to this application called Adium which is a chat program. It will handle AIM accounts, Google Chat, Jabber, and some others. I’ve been using it for about a week instead of iChat, and so far I’m pretty happy. It’s free software, so it’s worth a shot! You may just like it.

I use a 24″ iMac. It’s at a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. I love having my wallpaper rotate every five minutes. My favorite place for free widescreen wallpaper is, without question, Interfacelift. They have a plethora of wallpaper available, as well as free icon sets for your Mac and Windows machines. Check em [...]

I’ve always noticed TextMate behaves a bit sluggishly when a project contains a good amount of remote file references. I’d much prefer to use TextMate, but end up resorting to the vim editor. I got nothing against vim, by any means, but when modifying many files for one project, it can become cumbersome.

I often enjoy trying out new software to see if it will improve my efficiency and productivity. Currently, I develop with some very powerful tools. This article will outline the purpose of each, as well as highlight some pros and cons of the software I use for web development.