http://www.princeofswords.com One sword keeps another in the sheath. - George Herbert Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:55:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weekend I planned to migrate my Macbook to Leopard. I started Friday evening...and I'm already done. It was a really good experience and pretty much guarantees that I am never going back to Windoze, not that I'd even considered it in the last year and a half. Since I have ... http://www.princeofswords.com/2008/04/12/my-laptops-got-new-spots/ Over Christmas break I spent the week re-writing Phat Cock Tees, the first Rails app I did in 2005. It was finally deployed today. Crawling through the code it was clear had a very limited understanding of what the hell I was doing back then. It was still running as a ... http://www.princeofswords.com/2008/02/09/new-improved-phat-cock-20/ So back when you used Win98 to develop webs apps in PHP, there was that cool plugin for SVN that integrated with Windows Explorer. You could see the status of a file because its icon would change colors if you modified it. You could right-click and do most of the ... http://www.princeofswords.com/2008/02/05/tortoisesvn-member/ So a few months ago I was trying to move some color palettes between Inkscape and Color Schemer Studio Pro, both of which I still use. Recently our company colors shifted an RGB value from 204 to 196, which to most may not be noticeable. But, since I created a ... http://www.princeofswords.com/2008/01/29/ahhh-pwitty-cahloorz/ In case I find the two dimensional nature of my imaginary NSFW t-shirt company (Phat Cock Tees) constraining to the point of hindering my artistic vision, I now have a "Plan B". A Shopbot Dirty things out of dimensional lumber and exotic hardwood! Hot Japanese Cherry Blossom action. Got wood? Shiny meh-tal. Hard as steel. http://www.princeofswords.com/2007/06/19/2-d-or-not-2-d/ Tonight I spent some more time playing with the Harmony Remote. A nice touch I noticed (cuz I don't RTFM until I F'n Have To) is a tilt sensor in the device so if you touch it, it kicks on the backlight so you can see it in the dark. Played ... http://www.princeofswords.com/2007/06/12/practicing-a-720/ Between starting to read Godel, Escher, Bach... AGAIN (a super brain bender about Strange Loops) and listening to "How to Think Like Leaonardo da Vinci", I decided to play with music/time this weekend. About a year ago my favorite music store in SA, Hermes Music, sold out to Guitar World. Since ... http://www.princeofswords.com/2007/06/10/in-da-kitchen-cookin-up-beats/ ...but its a universal remote I'm playing with from Logitech. So far I like: rechargeable batteries - I hate trying to find AAA's lying around cradle - gives it a home so I know where to keep/find it easy setup via USB on Mac can setup favorite TV channels - I can never remember ... http://www.princeofswords.com/2007/06/06/harmony-720-sounds-like-a-cool-skateboard-trick/ So I've been back on some web interface design stretches lately. Working alot with SVGs in Inkspace and I've totally found my medium of choice. I got hooked on raster graphics playing with Photoshop more than ten years ago. It was so expensive I never ventured into Illustrator but have ... http://www.princeofswords.com/2007/04/25/colors-inkscape-and-mac-ness/ Over the weekend I spent some time trying organize all the stuff I have going on....again. My hipster has never left me but since I'm on a number of projects, my ToDo lists have gotten a little crazy. Luckily we're using Basecamp for most of them so I can feel ... http://www.princeofswords.com/2007/03/05/devonthink-things-done/