Stoney's Zone

Month: October 2007

  • The Ghost in the Remote

    I’ve been puzzled lately about why my iPod is already playing when I plug it into my car stereo. Yesterday, it dawned on me that I’ve started using my Apple Remote to run iTunes on my new iMac.

  • Getting Real

    I just finished Getting Real, a book by 37signals. I bought the PDF version, but it’s available online for free as well.

  • Software Is Hard

    Kyle Wilson’s description of Chandler’s development, taken from Dreaming in Code, immediately reminded me of my experience with On Technology. Not that it was also a Mitch Kapor company, but that it was a similar bunch of very smart programmers without any business constraints, trying to build a utopian system. The result was predictable. I…