Note Pass available in the AppStore
My first iPhone application, Note Pass, is available in the iTunes App Store. It is a very, very basic application, about 5 lines of code, that was inspired by Quicksilver’s Large Type feature. All…
benjaminchristen
A blog archive — 42 posts written between 2005 and 2009.
reminderss alpha is live!
Announcing: reminderss - retro browsing for the rss reader era!
JavaOne 2006
I'm at JavaOne (my first, wooo!) and blogging about it on java.net here.
MacBook, 13" Black -- I want it
I'm lusting for the new MacBook. Perfect size for traveling and easily powerful enough to hack away on some RoR (rails), Java and Cocoa (really fun, I've heard). I've been envying all the mac laptops…
Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.0 Beta
Google Toolbar for Firefox
sxsw is a blast!
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/benchristen/111187356/ "photo sharing") throwing the ajax gang sign with the ajax godfather Originally uploaded by benchristen.
I have no idea what to present at BarCampLA
None. Well, some, but I don't think they're all that exciting. Maybe I can talk about GTD (and my text file/svn system). I had thought to talk about how to name your applications, but then someone…
Best Domain Search (so far)
Real-time Domain Search is my favorite domain search site/util. Simple, real-time, ajaxed (fast) and a direct link to purchase the domain on godaddy -- awesome. They only search .com and .net, but,…
networking dos and don'ts
Do: Flattery. We all LOVE to hear about how great we are, especially when it's sincere.
What to do when you run out of Internet?
This happens (surprisingly) quite a bit (and I know it happens to some of my friends too). What do you do when you've run out of Internet? I've read all my rss (bloglines) feeds, checked in on my…
Learning Ruby!
I'm learning Ruby! It's fun to do simple things in a new (for me) language. Hello worlds are always fun. Here's what I just did!
Lazy Explanation of Blogging
I get asked about blogging quite a bit. i.e. What is blogging? How do I get started?
Blogging Roller: Roller 2.0 ships!
Blogging Roller: Roller 2.0 ships!
five years
Today is my five-year anniversary at my current job. w00000t!
Ownership
Let's say you work at Ford or some major auto manufacturer. You bust your ass designing and building (yeah, I know they're not hand-built, work with me here) dozens of car models or maybe you work…
Wow, ruby on rails
rails\take2\with\sound.mov (video/quicktime Object)
And then there were three news readers
It all started with Sage. That was when I really grasped the awesome power of rss (and by rss I mean all syndication formats, atom, etc.). It changed my life. I could now keep track of an exponential…
Technical Interview Resources
Here are some resources I highly recommend if you're in a position to be interviewing candidates for engineering positions. Hiring Technical People is a great blog precisely about this topic.…
Yahoo! Hollywood
Interesting, I saw this on Ken Norton's blog - This is what being a "media company" means? He comments on this LA Times article, among others commenting on Yahoo! dealing with a Hollywood/Silicon…
del.icio.us help and new features
Awesome! Check out the new help page on del.icio.us. They also added easy and configurable tagrolls and linkrolls (so you can easily have your links or tags on your blog, etc.). Check mine out.…
Google Analytics
Awesome! Google Analytics. Just the other day Shadow was telling me about how awesome Urchin is for site analytics and we were hoping that dreamhost would consider setting it up for shared hosting.…
Kareem Mayan - Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate
Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate
p4 obliterate -y
What a great command name. And, tonight is the first time I've used it in a place where things could actually go wrong if I mistyped something. -- Majorly wrong. p4 obliterate is the command in…
First Spam Comment
Sweet, I just got my first spam comment. Someone was trying to sell their company's product as an alternative to another product I recommended. I feel like my blog is all grown up! (well, at least…
What I need as a corporate Software Developer
After the events and frustrations of the day and comparing that with the ideal . . . Creating Passionate Users . . . here's a list of what I need as a developer (as of this moment):
Google Local for Mobile
Awesome! It's like having a GPS Nav system on my phone! Fantastic use of Java on a mobile device.
New Blog Strategy
I'm moving from roller@jroller onto a personal install of WordPress.
Content Mandate
My content mandate -
Joel on Software - Hitting the High Notes
I've been reading Joel On Software for a while now, and loving it. However, I enjoyed this post more than usual and I just can't quell the urge to blog about it. It's just a great essay getting to…
KoL RuLz!
So, my latest addiction (don't worry flickr, there's room for multiple addictions in my online life) is Kingdom of Loathing.
let me just take a moment to say how awesome Subversion is . . .
Maybe it's because I've mostly used VSS in the past, but SVN is just so easy and awesome. It was a breeze to setup and also get svnserve running, and now by using TortoiseSVN everything is just a…
The Ajax Gang Sign
| [](http://www.flickr.com/photos/benchristen/7760071/) | To be thrown asynchronously! Let all the geek-gangstas at your office know how you roll! Uploaded 28 Mar '05, 9.47pm PST by benchristen. | |…
old websites never die . . .
. . . they just get cached.
My Strengths
Last weekend I read the book "Now, Discover Your Strengths" and took the online test to discover my Strengths. The results were very accurate and I'm quite excited by them! It's great to see…
JAX-RPC SAAJ Memory Leak? JWSDP 1.4
I have identified what I think is a memory leak in the JWSDP 1.4, the SOAP client implementation that I am using in an application at work. Doing a test of just repeatedly calling one method that…
Tivo HME SDK and Where's My TivoToGo?
I am eagerly awaiting TivoToGo to be rolled out to my box. I signed up on the priority list a while back, but no updates yet! I even ordered a DVD burner drive for my PC!
The Curse of Innovation
Great! You've created a new, cool application that enables your team to do X! Everyone loves you for about a day, but then things change. Now you have to support it. Now you have to perform upgrades.…
Playing with BlogShares
just starting out with blogshares, and claiming my blog Listed on BlogShares
Why Blogging is better than personal websites of the 90s
I was talking with a friend about my new found interests in blogging and they compared blogging to the early web filled with arcane personal web pages. Well, I feel that there are certainly…
aggregate comment view in roller?
New features for Roller -- Group blogging would be great, especially in corporate/work environments where you might have a blog per project. A work around we have used, is enabling a view of posts by…
Roller with MS SQL 2k (Microsoft SQL Database)
At work we are using Roller for our internal blogging server. When doing the install, I opted to use MS SQL 2k as the database instead of HSQLDB or MySQL because that's what we use here. In order to…
StatCounter.com
I‘ve just started using StatCounter.com. At first use, it‘s great! I‘ve added tracking now to most of my personal sites. The use of the service is free (you have option to upgrade and give them money…