Feedmarker Blog

Hey everyone, Feedmarker is going to be down for a little while so I can move it to a new, improved host. My shared hosting (www.asmallorange.com) has been great but the app is outgrowing its limits. So, stay tuned and be patient, I hope to have the move completed by this weekend.Thanks

RubyManual.org is a nicely organized, searchable documentation reference for the Ruby language (it’s about time). I cam across it this morning and put together a little bookmarklet that will let you search the manual really quicky. Just drag the following to your toolbar:Ruby Manual LookupThen you can just click the bookmarklet, enter your search string, [...]

Ok folks, let’s keep this orderly; try to contain your emotions. Saddam Hussein’s novel, already a bestseller in Jordan, is being released in Japan. And we all know what that means: it’ll be at your local Barnes & Nobl within a month.
The historical novel depicts ancient tribal warfare and includes chapters entitled “The Foreigner Who [...]

Ok, this is just silly. Microsoft has put up a page on the Windows Vista Web site that is meant to help laypeople (like me) “get ready” for the release of the long-awaited (and long-delayed) next incarnation of Windows. Here’s a snippet:
Getting ready for Windows Vista, available in early 2007, means choosing the edition that’s [...]

Rich over at Basement.org has a great post on why it’s important to take a step back from all the buzzwords and think objectively about Web2.0. In it he looks at some traffic stats from a few Web2.0 players and wonders how many of the hundreds out there are even getting noticed (much less turning [...]

Usability is expectationMy boxers need a redesign. Either that or I need to find a different brand of undergarments.Today, for the seventeenth time this year I showed up to work with my underwear on backward. I discovered this 45 seconds before an important meeting, when I rushed to the bathroom to try a preemptive #1.Do [...]

Sorry for the interlude… I just got back from a nice vacation in Akumal, Mexico (I recommend it if you’re looking to go somewhere near Cancun but not in Cancun). Anyway, here are some of the sites that caught my eye this month:

event:Selectors – Justin’s blog is required reading for anyone doing Rails, javascript, [...]

Joel Spolsky has a good (but long) essay  discussing how to price what you sell.  If it’s software, your marginal costs are small (or nil) and you  theoretically could maximize profits by hyper-segmenting your market and charging everyone a different fee (according to what they can pay).  But should you actually do this? Turns out [...]

Just wanted to let everyone know what I’ve been up to lately (besides re-writing Feedmarker and releasing it as open-source).I’ve been working on adding graphing functions to Teacher! reports. After I push the next release, when you create a report, you also see a graph of that student’s grades as they compare to the class [...]

Excerpt from this article in Forbes about the ecomics of prostitution:
Economists have been equating money and marriage ever since Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker published his seminal paper “A Theory of Marriage” in two parts in 1973 and 1974 …Becker allowed nonmonetary elements, like romantic love and companionship, to be entered into courtship’s profit and [...]