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Well, after killing bugs for a few weeks, I’ve got to get back on getting our build process in place. Not the whole thing yet, but I’ve got to suck the code out of CVS, build a key framework, then do the same for the app.

Thank goodness for BBEdit, which makes editing shell scripts a highly pleasurable process. (Or as pleasurable as shell script can be).

Greg Titus, writing for Motley Fool:

“AppleScript is a way cool technology. Speaking as a NeXT bigot, I’d have to say that AppleScript is by far the coolest software technology that NeXT acquired when they sneakily executed their buyout of Apple for negative $400 million. :-)”

One of the things Wes linked to in our conversation last night (how’s that for mixing metaphors) was BitKeeper, a distributed source code management tool. I’m looking over the site now; I’d like personal comments from people with experience working with it, too.

Got to have dinner last night with old-school Frontier guru, Peer-to-Peer speaker, and all-around hoopy frood Wes Felter. We were headed to find some interesting night spot on Mill Avenue, near ASU, but we were both starving and settled for Chili’s.

A fun time was had, however, over an awesome blossom, quesadillas, and a couple fine ales.

Thanks to some unfortunate dental work a while back, I’m getting MSN and AOL search hits for “vicodin”. Mmmm. Vicodin.

Some useful sample code here.

Matt Goyer, who had a traumatic personal experience with my employer, discovers that I’m in the aforementioned evil corporation’s employ. As Matt says: Interesting.