I’ve noticed that people are slowly discovering the new design of the blog. I meant to write a post about it when I “made it live” a week or so ago, but I have been putting it off for some reason. I think I didn’t want to waste a whole post on talking about my […]

The financial world for small and medium-sized Mac software vendors is going through some interesting changes. Rumors of Google’s GBuy being released on June 28 put me in the mood to expect a shake-up, and today I’ve learned that Digital River has acquired eSellerate, a very popular payment processing service for Mac developers. Strangely, I […]

I have been happily using WordPress as the infrastructure for this blog since its inception, almost one year ago. Since I’m perhaps slightly geekier than than the average WordPress customer, I have been wanting to get to know the sources a bit better and possibly make my own tweaks or write plugins to suit my […]

I have never gotten very good at any of the popular shell scripting languages. Over the years, I’ve dabbled in Bourne sh scripts, Perl, awk, and sed. I was never one of those magical guys who could make anything happen in a few seconds. But I’ve always wanted that to change. I’ve decided to learn […]