Sticking with WordPress for now

I’ve spent the last few days messing around with textpattern. While it’s true that I can get it to do things that I don’t know how to do in WP (like getting comments to show in the index page), WP still feels more complete and polished. To be specific, there are a few WP features […]

Textpattern

After looking at a lot of web app frameworks, Johnvey put it most succinctly: “none of them are complete. You’re better off with an off the shelf solution”. He also pointed me to textpattern, which I’ve set up here. So far, I’ve been quite productive with it. It’s templating system is a bit odd (or […]

FTP App

It seems hard to find a good FTP/sftp app these days. But for some reason, I was searching around today and found Cyberduck, a fantastic open source ftp/sftp app for OSX. It seems to be active, feature complete, and polished. What more can you ask for? It also has a great feature that Fugu also […]

Essays

Ramesh pointed me to a great collection of essays written by Paul Graham regarding all kinds of topics. Most interesting to me are technology and start up-related.

Ranting about Open Source Part II

Here’s what I think it comes down to. Say theres some new type of software product. Let’s say the set of all features that this product can have is F, with features F1…F10. In the commercial world, someone will sit down and think hard and decide which subset of F will result in a good […]

Entourage Performance

I hadn’t run Entourage in a long time since it totally kills the overall performance of my Mac. Today, for some reason, I decided to try it again, and I was also, for some likewise unknown reason, inspired to turn off the ‘check mail every 20 minutes’ feature (this is done by disableing the “Send […]