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Archive for February, 2006

The Life - Day 3.2

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

It’s fitting that just after Apple sold its billionth song via the iTunes Music Store that I write about music. By the way, that was billion with a “B”. Amazing!
Oh yes… music. I find that I program way better when I’ve got my Sennheiser HD280 Pro’s plugged into my PowerBook. (Hmm […]

The Life - Day 3.1

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

I’ve noticed that programming time tends to squeeze out blogging time. And vice-versa. But I guess eventually I’ll become a more efficient blog writer and it’ll just flow out of my head like the code does.
Today was pretty good - making improvements in the layout to hide more advanced features until they are […]

The Life - Day 3.0

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Keeping schedules - corporate managers use Microsoft Project. Joel uses Excel spreadsheets. What does a Mac Indie use? I use VoodooPad.
It don’t keep track of estimates or hours worked. But I do keep track of the priority of tasks and when they are done. (Hint: Use Control-Command-Delete.) It works […]

The Life - Day 2.5

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

One of the things that is nice about being on your own is that you really don’t have to worry that much about when you blog. Sure, blogging is probably less harmful than smoking and people take smoke breaks during the day, but then again there’s not usually a corporate policy about what cigarettes […]

The Life - Day 2 - getting into the groove

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Today I woke up at around 10:30 - which seems kind of slackerish, except that I went to sleep at around 3:30. I answered a few emails. Answering emails seems to be the sort of thing that people don’t plan for when considering The Life. As John Gruber points out:
So the conundrum […]

The Life - Day 1 Wrap-up

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

About to get some sleep after working on WebnoteHappy during the day and also my usual night hours. I forgot that today actually wasn’t a vacation day but was actually a federal holiday, President’s Day. So for a holiday I made pretty good progress. I got closer to finishing del.icio.us support and […]

The Life - Day 1

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Welcome to “The Life“. This week, I’m taking a vacation from my day job and spending it working on WebnoteHappy full-time. I’ve done all the development on WebnoteHappy in my spare time, on weekends, nights, holidays, but never have dedicated a full workday to it until today.
I thought it would be interesting to […]

Living “The Life” next week

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Some people go surfing in Maui on vacation. Or perhaps tour Rome. Or maybe go skiing in the Alps. Me? Next week, I’ll be living “The Life”. Or at least the seeing what The Life would be like.
I’ll try to blog a little here and there throughout the week while […]

MacBook Pros upgraded already!

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

I got word from some friends who ordered the MacBook Pro that they have now been upgraded. You can now get the MacBook Pro in:
1.83Ghz ($1999)
2Ghz ($2499)

and 2.16Ghz! ($2799)
This is excellent!
What’s even better is that everyone who had ordered a 1.67Ghz MacBook Pro (which will not exist anymore - or actually never existed except […]

Apple Store presentation and Universal testing

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

I presented at the Tysons Corner Apple Store tonight. Turnout was light, but the presentation went well. Actually one guy, Don, drove all the way from Gettysburg, PA! That is the kind of Mac devotee that I love to see.
I gave a presentation that Pat Faquet, our VP of Programs at the […]