Amethyst Reese

Context: BarCamp Rochester — Anyone and everyone is invited to attend, and everyone is highly encouraged to present something of their own, no matter what it is.

Update: The information in this post is unfortunately out of date.

Thank you Explosm, you’ve just made my day!

With the ongoing work towards a 1.2 release, the Mantis Bug Tracker features a brand new plugin and event system, which will allow users to implement entirely new features for MantisBT without ever needing to touch any of the core codebase.

Merry Christmas everyone, happy holidays, and a happy New Year.

As a well-seasoned PHP developer for MantisBT and other projects, but at the same time a seasoned developer in Python, C++, Lua, etc, I found this interesting article on Hacker News, Yet, a short piece on the “history” and development of PHP as a language.

John Gruber recently talked about how he deals with email on the iPhone, where Apple’s Mail tool lacks the ability to do something even as simple as flag a message in the inbox.

On the topic of IE8: How about rather than asking web designers, server owners and IT staff everywhere to add some hack tag to their code, you force IE8 into compatibility mode unless a designer specifically enables IE8 rendering on their page by adding s…

On the launch of the excellent Ticketstumbler site: I don’t think the creator of an interface can ever objectively measure the usability of the interface, no matter how much they use it; they don’t ever have to learn it, because they created it in the fir…

On local government corruption in New York: Where there is money and people with power corruption is very likely.

On the Openmoko: … by the fact that Openmoko is a tiny company, they don’t have the purchasing power that Apple has to get newer hardware components at an inexpensive price point, hence the older ARM CPU and TI Calypso GSM chipsets.

On the new G1 phone using Android: i need a google account to use gphone; i need itunes to use iphone; i have to buy apps from approved channels. it favors the vendors apps; no thanks wake me when i can buy a device that runs apps i choose, connects to the

With all the recent talk of Google Chrome and all the other browser options, I find more and more that the love-to-hate Firefox 3.0 is still my best friend, and will not be replaced anytime soon.

Now that I’m restarting my “blag”, I gotta have a bit of ripe content.