How-to video site HowTube finally release episode 3 [No longer online —Ed. 2015-08-14], and it takes you through building an entire simple Widget with Dashcode, including tips on how to make links open in your browser, and tricks to make your widget building go faster and smoother.
I took a tour with a bunch of Macworld attendees, Hosted by Adam Jackson of Daily Tech Talk, walking around (and I do mean waking around) the city, and aside from the associated aches and pains, we had a great time. Met some great people, and got some wonderful shots of the city that we might not otherwise have gotten if we had taken the original planned route. There’s something really compelling about the way that this town will have a seedy massage parlor on one corner, and a swanky row of designer stores just across the street, and somehow, it all works.
A photo gallery entry will follow shortly, as soon as I have access to wifi that doesn’t seem to be three thousand people sharing dial-up.
Yesterday, I got Amazon’s shipment of Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide, and I stepped through the installation of Ruby and Rails and did the first “Hello, world!”-type tutorial. Rails looks really amazing (there’s even a tutorial online that shows a simple blog engine being built in 15 minutes, and with only […]
In the course of the recent Comcast debacle, I kept my eyes peeled, and gleaned a bit of info about the diagnostic menus on the Motorola DCT3412 I (“Dual Tuner DVR / HDTV Capable”).
To get into the main diagnostic status menu, grab the remote, and make sure the box is plugged in, but “off” […]
My parents got FiOS internet at their home in Florida a few months ago, and it seemed to be pretty stable and blazingly fast — better than my expensive DSL! My parents! How dare they surpass me in the quest for newer/faster/better digital gadgets! I was appalled!
Anyway, after the shock wore off, I figured […]
When we last left our heroes, Comcast’s contractor had botched the install, and promised to send someone out Wednesday to fix things.
Wednesday came and went, with a call at the very end of the installation window informing us that the contractor had been involved in an accident, and gone to the hospital. Thankfully, he […]
I’ve been looking at the new Series 3 TiVo this morning, and drooling over it. However much I vastly prefer the TiVo interface, though, I’m not sure I’m prepared to shell out an extra $800 plus $13/mo on top of my Comcast service for the privilege. At $8/mo for the box and service, I […]
