node.mu

John Siracusa on OS X Snow Leopard:
Got all that? A nearly two-year development cycle, but no new features. Major new frameworks for developers, but few new bugs. Significant changes to the core OS, but more reliability. And a franchise rejuvenation with few user-visible changes.
It’s enough to turn a leopard white.

I am running VMWare Fusion 2.0.x at home, and VMWare Server 2.0.x on my Ubuntu workstation at work. I wanted to move a virtual machine created on VMWare Fusion to VMWare Server.
Some gotchas that I’ve come across:
64-bit and VT mode
64-bit virtual machines are only supported on CPUs that have VT mode.
Fusion-only feature not handled gracefully [...]

I’ve had a few requests for my Vim settings recently. I might as well share it in a blog post. So here’s my .vimrc.

I know this. Put an iPhone into my hands, and I want to build software for it. There is just something about this device that compels me. I want to write something for it, even if I end up being the only user of my creation.
I never have this reaction when I interact with Windows [...]

I’ve had the Topre Realforce 86U tenkeyless (no numeric keypad) board for several months now. It is my all time favorite when it comes to keyboards. It’s got a superlative key feel and a fantastic build quality. Plus it comes with a red esc key. That has to count for something ;)
The tactile feedback; the [...]

I have recently started playing with Objective-C and Cocoa. One of the first things that I did was to tell Xcode to use MacVim as my default code editor. In the past, I have mostly been using Vim colour schemes with dark backgrounds.
However, I now wanted a colour scheme with a light background. Something that [...]

So I got an iPhone 3G last Friday. Initial thoughts:

The screen is absolutely gorgeous.
The Exchange integration works as advertised. I’m now getting my work emails / calendar events pushed to my phone. The challenge now is not to become a slave of my email.
You quickly take the GPS functionality for granted. Got a meeting at [...]

This post started as a comment on Kay’s blog post about Akash Mehta’s post titled “Last we checked, PHP IS a framework”. But my comment veered off-topic. So here we are. Feel free to recurse back and read what they had to say on the subject.
I would not call PHP a framework. I tend to [...]

What you do when you’ve been slack and haven’t posted for months? You think of something interesting to say. What do you do when your mind goes blank? You post a screen shot or a dot file. As a bonus, here’s both:
Screen shot of my xterm session in OS X:

And here’s my .screenrc file:

activity “activity: [...]

Moodle 1.7 Beta
Martin branched Moodle 1.7 from CVS HEAD today and announced the release of Moodle 1.7 Beta. This is a beta release, and is not recommended for production sites. The release notes has a list of the headline features for this new version:

Roles
Permissions based on fine-grained capabilities allow all kinds of roles to be [...]