In case anyone cares, I’ll be at SD Best Practices in Boston next week, giving a talk on why and how to use open source in “regular” development projects. I’m also going to be seeing some friends from way back, which will be fun.

You are water. You're not really organic; you're neither acidic nor basic, yet you're an acid and a base at the same time. You're strong willed and opinionated, but relaxed and ready to flow. So while you often seem worthless, without you, everything would just not work. People should definitely...

I am trying to convince a friend of mine with an interest in writing (stories, more or less based on personal experience) that she should publish through the web. She’d be doing it as a creative outlet, not with a particular financial or “book” goal in mind, so the standard...

Jon Udell correctly points out that I can point to specific bits of the KMDI archives, unlike what I said in the post below . Until today, I didn’t know how, and yesterday at 1am, I didn’t really care to learn. I may do it later to immortalize some of...

I like to be able to tweak the content of entries without having to worry about whether these changes will affect someone's RSS feed. Since Pyblosxom doesn't have a real “staging” model for posts, I wrote this plugin which lets me see draft posts using (very weak) password protection, and...