I was looking up Pith for an upcoming phone interview with SunRun and went to the pithmaster (son of pith?) Scott Adams. He does a great job of voicing the biggest problem with Solar (gaining prospect confidence that they are not pissing money away on green (as in inefficient) tech) -- but the creepy part is the ad.

I know things suck. Here are a few things to look forward to in 2010 that will hopefully give you a reason to take that shotgun out of your face and give the new year a shot.

I can't tell if there is a problem in Zend_Reflection or the underlying PHP_Reflection upon which it is based, but I used reflection to create actions in ZF, that is, to add a method to the controller class definition, and got a case of odd return doublings. That is, an extra line was spaced throughout the body text of the methods that already existed.

Okay, so I can't completely tell you due to NDA restrictions but when you develop....

This is an open letter to the people who run Meetup.com.

First off I want to let you know the people you serve truly appreciate what you have put together. I've been attending Meetups for years and its really great to have this turnkey system for spawning associations. However I'm also disappointed to see that every would be Craig is spawning their own social network in an attempt to lure singles into their micro-emipre.

I think the biggest problem is that membership is a commodity and everyone wants in on the action.

The Mac has more files and directories than most people "need to see" but if you are using it as a developer, those files and directories can be important. Here's how to show all the files and paths on the Mac.

Go to a console, and type the following:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true

killall Finder

Like most engineers, I have an irrational lust towards the newest technology. Even when it is applied to tasks that I ordinarily frarm out to third world nations, like cleaning, if its new, technically sophisticated, and looks like its capable of autonomous killing sprees, I need to have one.

Every time you release a new product you need a captivating slogan to capture the imagination of your target market. With Windows 7 coming out, I'd like to suggest: