thyncology

5 Software Entries

• 04-03-2008 Firefox 3 Gripes and Cheers Firefox 2 seemed a godsend for a long while. After dealing with IE for so long, and remembering the bad old days when I preferred IE to NS, I was barely convinced I was an FF1 user before FF2 came out. Godsend or no, it has since worn heavy and slow on my desktop(s). This [...]
• 02-11-2008 Cake Fun Well, I’ve been getting a good deal of on-the-job Rails practice, and am appreciating how well thought-out the framework is more and more. In contrast, CakePHP is missing a vast number of features. But it’s still quite promising. I’ve decided against playing with Symfony for now, as it’s annoyingly complex and just doesn’t feel right [...]
• 12-19-2007 Making the Grade Managed to score an A in YSlow’s Performance tab. This takes into account the treating of Flickr, LinkedIn, W3C and thyncology.com as CDNs.
  
  The first makes sense as I’ll be serving up images from there for some time at this point. The second is a temporary concession; I need to make a local copy of the [...]
• 11-05-2007 Ableton Live Lives! Well, I finally got around to plunking money down on something I’ve been wanting to buy a while now: Ableton Live. I hadn’t even played with it really, but from recommendations from Senator Adam of The New Law and numerous publications, as well as simply having become a fan of simplicity and ease of use [...]
• 10-30-2007 Aptana Aptana Aptana So here’s me doing my part in the blogospheric memetic proliferation of Aptana. It went live as Aptana Studio 1.0 today. I’ve been beta testing since they’ve had a beta (which was scarcely a week if that) prior to this release.
  
  In the new release they’ve got IE debugging, (sweet!!) SFTP/FTPS, a dedicated JSON editor, (though [...]