June 20, 2008 – 12:55 pm
That is Access Control Lists. I’ve been developing with CakePHP this spring and summer and it was all going very well until I actually needed to control access to the application. It’s not even that CakePHP falls short here. There are apparently tons of built-in tools for managing access. They’re just poorly documented and the [...]
May 13, 2008 – 12:02 pm
A couple of weeks ago I met with Garrick VanBuren to talk about cullect.com. I came away from the lunch excited about two things: Trying out some of the features in cullect that I hadn’t quite understood before and giving Ruby on Rails another shot.
I went to lunch with Garrick to offer him some feedback [...]
May 1, 2008 – 9:19 am
Yesterday I was listening to the Sound Opinions podcast with Peter Blackstock as a guest to talk about the last print issue of No Depression magazine. (I’m reluctant to link to ND, since I’m pretty sure Peter will find this within hours.) But something caught my attention even though I was very busy at work. [...]
April 24, 2008 – 11:39 am
Spring is slowly opening up upon us here in Minnesota and I suddenly find myself busy to the point of nearly being overwhelmed. I say “nearly” because I’m getting to do an awful lot of what I want to do, so even though I have very little spare time, I’m happy.
I’ve started work with Scott [...]
April 22, 2008 – 12:00 am
A few days ago I wrote a little entry about Microsoft’s relevance share. Admittedly, my piece was more about perception and taken from a broad perspective of Microsoft’s culture.
Peter Bright wrote a really nice piece that says the same thing in much greater depth. Bright’s piece is up-close and personal. Well worth a read if [...]
April 21, 2008 – 11:39 am
I thought maybe Comcast was “getting it.” They seemed to be on the cutting edge of responding to consumers’ needs by monitoring Twitter and blogs for complaints–and then responding to them.
Unfortunately the problems seem so pervasive that a simple campaign of Google Alerts and Twitter monitoring can’t fix them. The question remains then, is Comcast [...]
April 18, 2008 – 12:00 am
In four recent instances I’ve written something or mentioned something in a podcast where someone directly related to the subject found the post/podcast. That seems to me to be a relatively recent phenomenon.
Instance one: In a recent Minneapoliscast podcast, we discussed the demise of No Depression’s print magazine. Soon after Kyle Matteson and Steve McPherson [...]
April 17, 2008 – 12:25 pm
Lots and LOTS of people own computers that run Microsoft Windows. I won’t even go into market share figures. I’ll grant you that point. But what is Microsoft’s vision? Is this it? I certainly hope not.
If a bad spoof of a baby-boomer rock star signifies Microsoft’s outlook–even internally–they have no hope of maintaining a [...]
