Author: Rob Warner

After some discussion with Apress, I’ve decided to move my blog from there to here. Many thanks to Apress for hosting my blog all these years. We must still like each other, too, because...

Originally posted 2005-06-27 14:37:18 The conference kicked off this morning, but I’m still at cruising altitude. After arriving at the airport Sunday evening about an hour and a half before my flight, I slumped...

Originally posted 2005-03-31 20:30:10 I’ve had my iBook, which introduced me to both Macs and Mac OS X, for almost a year now. When I first got it, I struggled to find software for...

Originally posted 2005-06-17 07:47:29 I came across this blog entry that talks about a web site that allows you to type in a keyword search. It then searches Amazon using that keyword, and builds...

Originally posted 2007-09-11 13:05:45 Day three started with Bruce Tate, Ruby, and Rails. Tate isn’t entertaining nor dynamic (a la Scott Davis), but his presentation skills suffice and his material is excellent. Leading Java...

Originally posted 2007-08-25 02:23:12 From the what-will-they-think-of-next department, here’s an external hard drive designed to house your deleted files. It’s shaped like a trash can and sports the recycling logo, so it attempts to...

Originally posted 2007-08-21 18:05:02 I just released version 0.2 of Safe, the command-line password management program I’ve been using. This is the first public release, and it’s still alpha, but I’d love feedback. I’m...

Originally posted 2007-08-21 17:17:22 Last year I built a computer with parts ordered from newegg.com. Over time, and because of its faster processor, larger hard drives, and buckets more memory, my home-built computer has...