The best word I could use to descibe what Macworld felt like earlier this month in San Francisco is crossroads. Apple is at a major crossroads, one of several in its astonishing and dramatic ~30 year history. The success of the NeXT takeover…oops, I mean aquisition…the iMac, the release of Mac OS X, and now […]

I’m almost done reading The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper. I never picked it up when it first came out a few years ago, but someone recommended it to me last month so I finally gave it a go.
It’s a pretty fascinating book, although if you’re a programmer (and I am, to […]

I took a break from blogging the past few days to focus on getting some work finished, getting some spiritual stuff in order, and on a fun note, enjoy the Macworld shindigs. I was home during the keynote and checked all the newsfeeds constantly — and then watched Steve in action later in the day. […]

I won’t even try to speculate what will be unveiled at the Stevenote next week. All I can say is this:
2006 is the year that Apple changes everything in the computer industry.
The year of the iPod was clearly 2005. I hope the year of the Mac just started.

From the news release:
We’re very pleased to present to you a major upgrade to xajax featuring a number of new features, under-the-hood improvements, and bugfixes.
Some highlights include: object support for registered functions, support for registering functions in external PHP files, pre-function and catch-all function support, optional error handling, a heavily refactored Javascript engine, a […]