A collection of various ramblings on technology, life in 
Thursday, August 28, 2008 The fine folks at The Salem Insider are compiling a list of Salem-based bloggers. If you live in Salem Mass and have a blog, you should add your blog site to the list. And no, your blog site doesn't have to be about Salem. They just ask that you be a Salem resident. It's a neat way to see what others in Salem are writing about. posted by Kirby | August 28 03:18 PM | comments (0)
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 I know there are family and friends waiting for me to response to emails, IM, txt, facebook wall posting, tweets, etc. I'm sorry to say you will have to wait another day or two. I'll be catching up on personal emails, etc starting tomorrow. Meanwhile, check this out if you need entertaining while you wait. posted by Kirby | August 27 06:31 PM | comments (0)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 I decided the time has come to separate blog postings specific to White Peak Software from my personal posting found here at thecave.com. If you are interested in following product news, tips, tricks, and all other things related to White Peak Software please visit or subscribe to blog.whitepeaksoftware.com. posted by Kirby | August 26 11:11 PM | comments (0)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 High royalty rates could kill web radio including Pandora. This is very disturbing news for me because I listen to a lot of web radio especially Pandora. I rarely if ever listen to AM/FM radio these days and web radio is my only insight to new music. Web radio influences me to buy new music.
As I mentioned before I have only recently started buying new music again. A big part of this is has to do with the availability of DRM-free music. And the music I do buy now is heavily influenced by what I hear on Pandora and other web radio stations. If web radio dies because of the insanely high royalty rates then there's a good chance my music buying habits will die off too as I will end up going back and listening to only the music I already have. posted by Kirby | August 20 09:30 AM | comments (0)
Thursday, August 14, 2008 I'm planning to move a web site from ASP.NET to PHP. My primary development machine is a MacBook Pro. I use VMware Fusion for hosting a number of different OSes including Windows and Linux (mostly Ubuntu). So now I'm wondering what type of development environment I should setup for working with this new PHP based web site.
Should I develop directly within OS X? It's definitely convenient. But I don't need services such as Apache, Postgres, etc running on my laptop all the time. Also, I'm concerned that it might introduce my laptop to additional security risks.
Should I develop within a Linux guest OS? This is not as convenient as doing development within my host OS but it does mean my LAMP development environment is not running all the time wasting system resources when I'm not doing development work. And it is also more secure because I can restrict access to the guest OS.
So my latest thinking is to use a hybrid approach. I'll setup a Ubuntu LAMP server as a guest OS using VMware Fusion. Then use a file share so I can edit the web site files within the host OS. It seems like this approach gives me the best of both worlds. I can edit files in OS X using an editor like TextMate while hosting and testing the web site on a LAMP server. Hmmm, I think maybe this is the right approach for me. posted by Kirby | August 14 12:18 PM | comments (3)
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