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I just got done with the book “Getting Real” by 37Signals. This book is a bible for anyone looking to start a web app using minimal resources without sacrificing quality.  “Getting Real” is divided into 16 chapters and covers planning your application up to launching and supporting your application. Each chapter consists of [...]

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Last Saturday Miss Rhead spoiled Gavin and I with her astounding vegetarian cooking: Garden burgers topped with sauteed mushrooms and pepper jack cheese. I have to admit that I now actually like garden burgers MORE than I like meat burgers! Her cooking inspired me to want to learn how to be a better cook [...]

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Songbird is a cross-platform, open-source iTunes replacement that is built off of Mozilla. It has a similar look and feel to iTunes, but it extends many of the features. The site actually has a great screencast that introduces the unique features found.
I was introduced to Songbird by Ian McKellar at SHDH15. I’ve [...]

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As previously mentioned I would do a review of the brand new Firefox plugin “Operator” by Michael Kaply. Instead, I felt this article at the Mozilla Labs Blog did a better job than I ever could at describing the functionality of Operator.
There are a few highlights I would still like to cover though. [...]

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Today I have been playing around with the social web browser Flock. Flock is based off of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and has integrated support for services such as photobucket, flickr, del.icio.us and various blogs. Like so many things, I first heard about flock at SHDH13 after overhearing Chris Messina talk about it. [...]

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