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I’ll be in the Bay Area from Friday August 18 through Thursday August 24.

if you want to meet up (or have a place for me to crash).

A while back, I asked your advice on how to produce PDF, DOC, and RFT output from a web app, something I needed for isabont.com, which we launched a few weeks ago.

Thanks to your help, I figured it o…

I have a client that categorizes their documents.

Great, you think. Well, they categorize their documents in one or more of almost 3,000 categories. That’s something that’s hard to build a nice, simp…

On the rails-core maililng list, Josh Susser dropped the term “syntactic vinegar” to mean the opposite of syntactic sugar: Deliberately making the syntax uncomfortable when straying from the golden pa…

My friend Nikolaj Nyholm, of O’Reilly fame, is looking for a lead web services engineer for a fascinating face recognition startup he’s involved in.

He’s looking to fill the position immediately, for…

I was still stuck in the web 1.0 world of Expedia, but thankfully Nikolaj Nyholm recently fixed that by pointing me to Kayak.com, which is so much more useful—lets you quickly narrow by number of stop…

Am I the only one who finds the upcoming.org user experience frustrating? More than anything else., what I want is to subscribe to an RSS feed of events in my selected metro areas, tagged with one or …

I missed out on the real RailsConf, so now I’m considering going to the Europe one, except it seems nothing’s happening: There’s no buzz, there’s no notice that it’s about to sell out, no sense of urg…

Quicksilver triggers are God’s gift to mankind. They let you create global triggers for any action Quicksilver can describe.

I always work on a handful of TextMate projects at the same time:

• a client…

It took me a bit to figure out how to use the formatted_XXX_url named URLs that the SimplyRESTful plugin generates for you. It’s not hard, it’s just not documented, either, and the code isn’t the clea…