And I thought life couldn’t get any busier. [Inserts foot into mouth.] This is just a reminder that whatever the state of things, it can always get more extreme than you can imagine. It also brings to mind that when ‘things’ are already at an extreme, it doesn’t take much added extreme-ism-ness to make it feel completely overwhelming. continue

I’ve been putting together a quick reference guide to MySQL for some upcoming projects and thought that it was handy enough others might find it useful. When I went looking for some good references I was surprised to only find a handful of options and none of them alone had all the information I wanted at my fingertips. So, I figured, it would be worth it to spend the time to create my very own super-uber-ultimate MySQL reference. And now, I’m giving it to you… my lucky readers! continue

It seems to be a number of uncanny order in life, nature, project development… Perhaps my 3-step process in tackling tasks is an obvious idea, but you never know who may need to (re-)discover it. Admittedly, my time management skills are not the best — which is a particular source of self-imposed frustration when living the freelance life. So just trying to intentionally approach my work this way has had a tremendous positive impact on my ability to get things done. continue

Brian Amerige released a second screencast that tackles real-world use of his new remote connection client, Flow. The more I see, the more anticipation builds up. Alas, Flow is still in a private internal testing stage and public beta likely won’t happen till early April. Still, Brian has given us a few more tidbits of what Flow can do. continue

After a long, long, long time, I finally did it. I was asked sometime ago by an old friend of mine to play around with creating a style for his little IRC client for Mac OS X. My tinkering finally produced a style that I was happy with enough to want to release it to the public. continue