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skEdit, The (Mostly) Perfect Text Editor
I’m crazy about skEdit. I use it every day in my work here at Clearwired. It replaced for me BBEdit, which I had been a paid user of for several versions. (I still keep BBEdit 8.0 around, but I only use it for finding diffs between documents.) I like skEdit so much that I gave it an unsolicited plug in a recent podcast segment.
ABQ Barcamp - 11/11
It's time for Albuquerque BarCamp (11/11/2006 -- location tbd). What is a BarCamp? Well, the BarCamp website defines it as:
"an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees."
Hostage Customers
I was rushing out for lunch yesterday and stopped to get gas at the station right around the corner from the office. I swiped my card and pulled the pump off of the holster, opened the gas cap and waited to pull the trigger. Click, click, click.
On "Worse is Better"
Back in the day, there was a concept popular among Unix-types, called Worse is Better. The idea, basically, is that you start with solutions that are close to perfect, but fairly simple. Then you layer on additional technology to take care of the remaining portions. Plan on reuse rather than everyone going through your gateway. This is in direct opposition to systems that try to be all things to all people all the time.