March 2009
10 posts
motivation
Being a father of two small children, the time for extra-curricular activities (i.e. development) is very limited.
Breaking up tasks into bite-size bits (GTD anyone?) is a good way of moving forward. Instead of designing a total view, I can set as a target to place a single button. It leads to a sense of achievement, and keeps me moving forward.
If the target is too ambitious, I don’t...
twittergarten
sometimes reading twitter feels like watching children bickering in kindergarten.
music
been on a trip down memory lane. albums by afro celt sound system and grace jones have been procured.
metaWeblog-server
I now have an xml-rpc server running that understands newPost, getPost and getRecentPosts. Currently it only returns static data, but at least it is a start.
meta-meta-weblog
I am in the process of writing a bridge between MarsEdit and nanoc, and will use this blog to document the process. As the bridge will be using the MetaWeblog API, I guess this blog temporarily can be considered a meta-meta-weblog.
mac mini
I am seriously considering getting a mac mini for the TV in the living room. I already have an eyeTV stick, and ripping the kids DVDs would mean never having to worry about finger marks on the Shrek discs again. With my birthday coming up soon, there might even be a budget break for it.
“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains...”
– Richard Dawkins
xml-rpc frontend to nanoc
As I have more or less made the decision to use nanoc for creating my own sites, I now want to try to write an xml-rpc front-end for it, so that I can use MarsEdit to create pages.
Objective C
In my quest to master Objective C, I think I will use the Head-First book on objective oriented programming and adapt the examples from Java to Obj-C. Should be an interesting exercise.
Static website generation
I am now checking out nanoc, a ruby tool for static website generation. Looks v. nice.
nanoc