iamcal.com Since May 2000

Sep 26th: I've been meaning to link to this for a while: Deploying at GitHub explains the develop/stage/deploy cycle at github, which can rougly be described as "Like Flickr, but with personal dev environments and using Git". It's light on technical details, but says a lot of the right things.

Sep 25th: The silver searcher is basically ack, rewritten in C to be crazy fast. If you're regularly using grep to search a codebase, this is probably a much better idea.

Sep 24th: The case of the missing bees (more specially, colony collapse disorder) might have actually been solved.

Sep 18th: In followup to my previous post, someone has spent the time to create Spotify playlists for all of the Festive Fifties from 1976 to 2011, including the two all-time lists. Some excellent listening.

Aug 31st: The World of Warcraft 5.0.4 patch has been out for 2 days, so it's about time I published a new addon. BuffGuide shows you your raid buff status (for the new 8 buff system), along with food and flask buffs, replacing the long-ago discontinued BuffEnough. Source is on GitHub.

I've also updated Precedence for 5.0.4, but only the Hunter module so far and it's not quite ready for a release.

Aug 15th: This is my cam is really nicely done; a profile of each camera you've used on Flickr. Chris has a little write up about how it came to be.