DigitalHobbit

Both a coworker and Andy Hunt’s blog pointed me to this website. It’s about time the venerable “Waterfall” software development methodology got its own conference: Waterfall 2006.

If you’re getting tired of the hype around “Web 2.0″, you may get a kick out of this: Wankr

I so need to get me one of these babies: MacBook Pro.

The specs are quite awesome:

15.4-inch TFT display with 1440×900 resolution 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2MB shared L2 Cache 667MHz frontside bus 1GB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300) 100GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive Slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW) ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory iSight camera 801.11g and Bluetooth [...]

This morning I turned on my iPod after not having used it over the weekend, and I was surprised to find that it had been completely erased, as if I had restored it to factory settings using the iPod updater. It prompted me to select my language, I had to re-enter all my settings, and [...]

The Pragmatic Programmers have published another Ruby book: “Learn to Program”, by Chris Pine. The book is intended for new or non-programmers and teaches programming from the ground up - variables, flow control, and everything. It’s nice to see Ruby move even more into the mainstream, and this book looks like a great introduction for [...]

I just realized that it’s been a little over a year since I pretty much permanently switched from Windows to Linux! I had been using Linux on and off over the past 10 years or so, but it wasn’t until a year ago that I seriously ditched Windows in favor of Linux.

On December 30, 2004 [...]

Koders is a very cool source code search engine. It indexes many open source projects and covers a wide range of programming languages, including of course Java and Ruby, but also more obscure languages. Clicking on a search result brings up a very nice syntax highlighted version of the source code. Many elements in the [...]

I just added another external hard drive to my Linux system, and now I’m wondering about a few potential issues. At this point I have one permanently attached external hard drive, one backup hard drive that I only hook up occasionally, my iPod (which I mostly use on my Windows laptop because I don’t want [...]

I promise after this post I’ll shut up with the Atheist posts for a while. But first:

The Official God FAQ

This is absolutely hilarious! Pay attention to the disclaimer.

And while we’re on the subject, here’s a partly serious, partly humorous proof that there is no god. A lot of good links on that site, [...]

This weekend I’ve watched an amazing movie: The God Who Wasn’t There. It critically explores many aspects of Christianity, and in particular the myth of the existence of Jesus. It accomplishes all this in a manner that is both convincing as well as having many funny moments. Sadly, I doubt that this movie will manage [...]