I might have played the devil’s advocate when Lars was hating on frameworks
at the barcamp last weekend, but that doesn’t mean I don’t see his point.
The latest in a series of frustrations with frameworks kept me up until 3am last
night. What better way to cap it off than complaining on the internet?
I used to get several hundred spam emails a day on micropipes.com. I wasn’t
thrilled with having a four or five digit message count in my spam folder, but I
deleted the few that slipped through each day and didn’t think about it much
more. Someone else running a domain on this server got enough initiative to do
something about it though and installed a Grey Listing filter.
I took the afternoon off work so I could drive to Portland to attend Ignite Portland. The introduction
didn't start until 6:20pm - I drove past the theatre at 4:45pm and there was
already a line. The 500 person seating limit was filled while there were still
people waiting in line. I slipped in with the 250 people that were allowed to
stand around the edges before they had to start turning people away.
Firefox 3 is coming down the pipeline along with a pile of great new features
like caching
web apps so they are available offline and the new Places API that
provides a powerful interface to your bookmarks and history. No need to fret if
your extensions will be compatible though - here's the lowdown on what it takes
to stay up to date:
Mozilla’s SVN repository was started on September 2nd, 2006 and just hit
10000 commits. That’s an average of over 19 commits a day for 520 days
straight!