Just when I thought Apple bashing was finally fading away from general computer industry discourse, some dude publishes an editorial on OSNews.com that is fancinating in its extreme bias, misleading premise, and un-factual conclusions.
Read my rebuttal here and let me know what your thoughts are. I fully admit I’m an Apple fan (I first switched […]

Got a cold, gettin’ better,
will be back to write a letter
sometime soon, never fear.
The ideas don’t stop flowing here
at the Idea Basket.

Now some might say I’m just engaging in an ego trip, but I decided I’d try to scrounge up a decent portrait of myself and put it on the blog here so y’all know who’s writing what you’re reading. I like to connect with people on the Web and always enjoy seeing what they look […]

I recently watched an extremely enjoyable and inspiring presentation at Google by a researcher with University of Washington’s Keeping Found Things Found project. In the presentation, William Jones covers a wide range of organization topics, going beyond the usual folders vs. tags debate to a more comprehensive look at the how’s and the why’s of […]

One of the main enhancements for Willowgarden DP2 will be a vastly improved architecture for the data mapping layer. The goal is to allow archetypes (domain objects) to be loaded and saved via one or more storage systems and formats with minimal loss of data integrity. In other words, I want to be able to […]

I checked out the new MacBook a few days ago at my local Apple store, and I was quite impressed. I thought the iBook design couldn’t be beat, and I still like my iBook G4 a whole lot, but the MacBook (even with the slightly bigger width) is a small, sleek bundle of power that […]

I’m going to rant for a moment, so you may want to leave if you aren’t in the mood.
I’m sick and tired of seeing political tirades mixed in with technology discussion on blogs. When I go to a blog that’s all about, say, marketing Web services, or developing Cocoa software for Mac OS X, or […]

The race is on to take a bite out of the Web development platform pie and become the dominant PHP 5 framework. Who are the players? What are the stakes? Who will win? This essay will spell it all out for you in black and white.

What is this “framework” of which you speak?
In order to […]

I feel like I’m posting on the Signal vs. Noise blog with this one, but what the hey. I was just reading a TIME article on the Nintendo Wii, which to my non-gamer brain sounds like a great product, and I was struck by the brilliance of the philosophy behind the design of the Wii. […]

Whew, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount of work I have ahead of me for xajax 0.5 and Willowgarden DP2. Not that it’s particularly difficult or time-consuming compared to the work I’ve already done, but in both cases the work requires a singularly focused and specific train of thought, which is tricky to […]