-
Lessons in home remodeling
Almost a year ago, we embarked on the journey to transform our house into a home. It has been an interesting journey, to say the least. I've learned a lot about myself and a lot about the process. While I love our house and I consider it down, the most important lesson I've learned is that I never want to do this again! Why would I say this? Remodeling a house requires you to make hundreds and hundreds of decisions ranging from what faucets to get to what color paint to put on the wall. We had a general contractor who handled all the sub contractors. Dealing with the general contractor was easy and he was quite responsive.
-
Another Stab at using OS X Server
I've had a few run-ins (as I like to call them) with OS X Server in the course of my career. I've been very comfortable with UNIX/Linux machines for a long time (I compiled my own Linux kernels when I was right out of college) and found them to be quite reliable and highly configurable. The lack of a GUI didn't scare me and I thought it was a plus as there are tons of options for services like Apache and named (DNS) and a there was no way that a GUI could expose all of them.
-
Using Xcode Server for Builds
At last year's WWDC, Apple introduced Xcode Server for doing continuous integration. Lots of people have tried to use it with mixed results. Recently after dealing with our build server for work (we use Jenkins), I decided to give Xcode server a try for one of my projects.
-
The downside of parking meters
San Diego is in the process of replacing regular parking meters with ones that are called multi-space meters. These are ones that give you a ticket that you place on your dash. I thought that these were neat as I could just pay with a credit card as I usually don't have change around. My wife, however, pointed out the problem with these is that the minimum is 1 hour on the meter which costs $1.25. I didn't think much of it until I had to pick something up today and found a meter with some time left on it; I dropped a quarter in it (I do have some quarters in my car) and got another 12 minutes which was plenty of time for my errand.