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A Little Perspective on Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

Now that I’ve recovered from my Google shock, I can return to what I really came to write about.

I ran across this very interesting video series on the All Things Digital website. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates on stage at the same time sharing their stories. I know this footage is almost a year old, but I only stumbled on it just now. But if you haven’t seen them yet I would strongly recommend watching them. Read more

Google Earth Hour

Imagine my surprise today when I pulled up Google to do a quick search and was presented with the first major change to the interface since I was first introduced! Not to worry though, Google is just trying to make people in the United States aware of power conservation efforts. The normal interface should return tomorrow.

Here’s more information on the Google Earth Hour.

Living Dangerously with Wordpress 2.5 RC2

Being one that always loves to play around with new things, I wanted to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 RC2 on my production site but being production I didn’t initially want to risk it. Instead I did a quick install on my development server which took less than 5 minutes and gave things a run through. I was so impressed by the new admin interface and integrated media manager that I decided to throw caution to the wind and go ahead and upgrade. So here we go as I bring Jon’s View up to WP 2.5 RC2 Read more

First Impression: Ruby on Rails

My travel plans fell through this spring break, so I finally had some time to sit down and take a look at Ruby and the Rails framework — a task that has been on my to do list for over a year. I acquired Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Application by Patrick Lenz and got to it. My first thoughts as I started was “gee, this is a lot like Python.” We’ve got an interactive shell at our disposal and the syntax is more natural than say C++. Web development is far from an interactive shell however. Read more

iScripture.org Updates Rolled Out

I received some great feedback from users of iScripture.org, the iPhone webapp that I released last week. And so I had another weekend of obsession implementing some new features that were suggested and fixing bugs. Read more