Things have slowed down on Shopp lately as I’ve had to meet other project deadlines, but exciting things are still happening. For example, development of the shipping cost calculation architecture has wrapped-up. More juicy details of that and other work underway on the other side of the continue button. continue

Yes, it really does work. It just requires a bit of command-line TLC to appease the LaunchDaemon and filesystem hot wiring to make Apache/PHP and MySQL play together. continue

With all the tra-la-la buzz of the iPhone over the weekend, I’ve been thinking about what I really want out of the iPhone beyond the “it’s the latest greatest, next-generation, world-changing, fit-as-many-buzzwords-in-as-possible tech gadget out there”. Alas, I want one, but given my experience with Apple’s first generation devices, I think I’m gonna wait on this one. That said, read on for my most anticipated features. 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