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Required web developer tools

I’ve been wading through Jot Script, AJAX, dojo, css, and JavaScript over the last month building out applications on the Jot Wiki Platform. About a week into it Fadey [1] sat down with me and set me up with tools that changed the way I thought about developing on the web. Apparently while I was [...]

Safe

I remember waking up for school in a cold house in the winter, under the warm covers, cold nose poking out. Make it to the kitchen. Just to the kitchen, not far. Brrrr. Cold air. Quick, out of the covers, run, into the hall, the house is dark, no lights. Small sliver of light coming [...]

Hustler’s story

Top on my playlist as of late has been the Biggy Small tribute album. It was released a few weeks ago and it is really well done — I highly recommend it. Even if you don’t buy the album you should head over to iTunes and buy “Hustler’s Story” (track 14) which features Scarface and a [...]

Pilgrimage to the Daily Show

Before the shit hit the fan last week Jul and I took a trip out to NYC to see the Daily Show. We stayed at a wonderful hotel call the Roger Smith which is owned by Phoebe and her family, a friend of ours from Brown. The hotel is really something special. Each room is [...]

Maurice on the strength of children

When I was at Brown Maurice Sendak came to speak. He told the most amazing story that had the entire audience in tears. I can’t do it justice but it was so great it is worth retelling. At the time Maurice was heavily involved in children hospitals and care for terminal children. He led an [...]

My Data Sources

I have a My Documents folder. In the My Document folder is are My Pictures, My Images, My eBooks, My Library, My Photos, My Music, My Phat Music…all of which are pretty ridiculous given it is My Computer (as the icon reminds me), but I think they crossed the line when Excel added my most [...]

Still alive, tracking bugs, planning reunions

Over the holidays I released my first two applications on Jot. I’m pretty excited by where they landed. You can read more about them here: http://blog.jot.com/archives/2005/12/21/no-assembly-required-batteries-included/ Try them out if you have a sec. It was a bit of a sprint at the end, with a few hick-ups near the finish line, but everything landed [...]