My personal journey away from and eventual return to the linux desktop, how it compares suprisingly well with the competition, and how it could be better.

As the effort to infuse new life into crosscheck continues, I introduce a prototype of the next generation crosscheck, while at the same time issuing a plee to the community to become more involved.

Crosscheck, The Frontside's browserless javascript unit-testing framework has languished recently under the limitations of its current architecture and its regime of piecemeal updates. If the project is to keep alive, it's time to iterate all those things.

As a long-time html/css/javascript programmer I finally get around to getting my hands dirty with flex. I liked a lot of what I saw. Not least of which was the harmonious interplay between vector and raster graphics.

From Ruby on Rails, to the Amazon Web Services libraries, the ruby culture has a serious love-affair with global variables which I have yet to grasp.