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 f…

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…

On the rails-core maililng list, Josh Susser dropped the term “syntactic vinegar” to mean the opposite of syntactic sugar: Deliberately making the syn…

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.

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 mor…

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 even…

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 n…

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 handf…