<p><a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/HomePage">Rails</a>, a ruby framework, is simply the best way I&#8217;ve found to develop small to medium sized web apps. I could rave on for quite a while, but I won&#8217;t.</p>

Instiki, one of the nicest little wikis, now has a standalone application for OS X. You start the application, as you would any other program on your mac, and you have a wiki running on your network. No pain, all gain.

bq. In effect, CoDeeN is one of the largest “open” proxy networks in the world, and therefore draws unwanted attention from malicious users. This paper discusses our experiences with undesirable traffic on CoDeeN, the mechanisms we developed to curtail it, and the future directions for such work.

Full paper here. Rather interesting.

I was at the beach for with some friends. Since I’m not really into sunbathing, I pulled out the camera, took a few portraits, and then combined a mix of everyone’s facial features into several different new faces. Here’s an example:

Last week, my little sister asked me to show her how to program - she wanted to write her own random fairy tale generators. She learned quickly, and had the skills she wanted in about an hour.

I picked JavaScript as a good beginner language (it just beat Ruby - since with Javascript she could easily put her code on a web page and show others her work). We both opened up a shared document in SubEthaEdit, and activated web preview. As either of us typed, the final result of the JavaScipt program showed in the preview. It was a great way to teach, and to learn.

We ran though all kinds of things about variables, objects, and arrays. We used fairy tale variable names:

She has decide that camelCasing variable names is ugly, so she writes her variables LikeThis.

I did not show her functions, or control structures yet. When she wants to do something she can’t do with her current knowledge, that will be the time to learn new things.

Looks like you can use Subversion with flat files.

Sample application code for a Restaurant Locator done in Flex. (Flex has quite a lot of potential for use building web based enterprise application)

Darn. OS X now has it’s first Microsoft sized, blatant security hole. Best instructions keeping yourself safe are at Daring Fireball.

Now I’ve got to go “patch” my Mac friend’s computers.

The ever cool SubEthaEdit now supports regexs for find/replace. This nice - I take advantage of regex powers in BBEdit.

Two thousand, three hundred graduates fill the area floor, while thousands of parents and friends fill the stands. Hand painted in white on one graduates black mortarboard - visible to the audience looking as he walked the stage - “R U HIRING”