Monkinetic Weblog

Eclipse 2.0 has been released. Eclipse is a Meta-IDE, an integrated development environment for programmers that can be configured to work with most any language/runtime. You can download 2.0 here, but I'm wondering what would need to be done to get a copy running on Mac OS X. There are Win32 and native X Windows versions... but it seems there's no (at elast) Pure Java version.

(Thanks Doc!) Meet MEETUP, the site that lets you arrange meetups with like-minded people in your area. There's a weblogger meetup group, too. ;)

Brent is thinking about creating a mailing list for Mac OS X application developers who are working in the area of webservices, specifically desktop apps for web services. I think this is a great idea, and will help show others what a great platform Mac OS X is!

We went hiking at South Mountain last weekend, and we saw this guy on his mountain-bike-unicycle. He rides the trails over South Mountain just like the other (seemingly thousands) of cyclists. Nuts. Just plain nuts. I can't imagine the strength or balance required for this.

I finally set up my wishlist at Amazon. If you'd like to make me real happy, pick something from that list! :)

Jodi and I went bowling last night with a bunch of friends from church. Neither of us had been bowling since junior high, so we were abit rusty. I think my three games were 84, 98, and 102. Ouch. But - we had a blast! Hanging out with friends, having a great time, it was all a Friday night should be. I managed a couple strikes, completely by luck I'm sure! Jodi got one or two as well, and we both had (more than) our fair share of gutterballs! Thank goodness we were with friends! -)

I finally got around to switching the rest of this site over to the CSS-based them I use on the homepage (blog). I believe it loads a bit faster now, too. (Check one more thing off my redmonk TODO list...)

David McCusker had a crappy experience with the "Geniuses" at this local Apple Store's Genius Bar.

R.E.M. has released an album's worth of remixed songs from REVEAL. This is just so cool. The story of how it happened is here.

Jodi and Jim are having a good discussion (starts here) about the 9th Circuit Court's ruling regarding the Pledge Of Allegiance. Check it out.

I've got some time this evening, so I'm going through the process of setting up fetchmail, procmail, and spamassassin on my TiBook. (fetchmail and procmail come installed on OS X) I hate SPAM.

I went to the public library to day and came back with an armload of books. The Phoenix Library system rocks. My titles:

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar (for fun)
• Server-based Java Programming (to get a better understanding of how Java handles networking etc)
• Enterprise JavaBeans (expanding my horizons some)
• The Humane Interface (HCI design, by Jeff Raskin, Mac interface designer)
• Mapping Web Sites (information architecture brushup)

The "Rodeo" and "Chedeski" fires in north eastern Arizona have now eaten through 300,000 acres of high country forest.

The fire has burned about 300,000 acres - about 479 square miles - since Tuesday. As many as 25,000 people have fled homes from more than half a dozen towns.

For the four of you out there reading my blog, I'm not dead yet. Things in my life have gotten way the heck crazy lately, so I've not been concetrating on redmonk.net. But fear not, I'll be back to posting random bits very soon now...

Seth and other Macrobyters (that doesn't sound right...). Attached are three versions of the FriendlyTemplate, and two photo templates. Please respond via email, as I don't have a private space to do this in. I'll put up more shortly.

Here's wishing the best to Dave, who is in the hospital, and will remain there through this week.

I'm on the tail end of a 30-hour stretch at work. We had a major, multi-application deployment last night, with everyone from the network administrators to the programmers to the message board admin involved. It was a big deal, and of course my app decided to throw a tantrum precisely 2 minutes before we flip the switch.

Jodi posted a pic she took of me in the new specs over on her site. She seems to think they make me look smarter. Is that good?

Seth Dillingham released a cool Conversant macro today, an implementation of the unix strftime function that is used with formatting dates. It works with several data/time related message macros, and date custom fields.

John Robb thinks that k-logs (fancy word for weblogs) in the corporate environment are a good thing becuase they are archived for posterity.