I’ve recently been involved in a discussion about what makes a rockstar developer for a startup. This has always surprised me- the reality of the matter is that there are no rockstars, only people who think of themselves as rockstars, and those are the last people you want in charge of your product. So I [...]

Three weeks ago, Columbus hosted Startup Weekend, and one of the presenters (blah name here) effectively stated that the first step of a startup should be to get something out there to gauge interest. This is fair- fact is there’s no point in throwing development hours at a project if you don’t know whether it’ll [...]

As a bit of an information sponge, I’ve carefully developed the ability to cross reference different knowledge domains and apply solutions from one to another. The upside of this is that many see me as a very creative individual, when I’m really just a very complex comparison algorithm. The far more problematic downside is that my mind generates so many awesome things to pursue, implement, investigate or create that I’m frequently crippled trying to pursue them all.

This spits in the face of my own personal philosophies: “Inspiration, no matter how trivial, should be pursued and encouraged”. I just don’t have enough energy, time, or brain capacity to pursue all this crap, whether substantial or whimsical, so I figured I’d start posting some of the ones I really love (but don’t have the capacity to pursue) here, just in case someone else wants to pick something up. I’ll be labeling them with the project names I used when I first started investigating them, so if you see a blog post come through called “Project [something or other]” you’ll know that it’s an idea open for grabs.

I spent a good amount of time today trying to figure out how to turn my “old” iMac into a development environment, which included installing Cruise Control. Since I didn’t want to run the launch script manually, I tried (and failed) to find someone who’s successfully gotten cruise to autostart on boot. A bit of investigation later and I came up with a solution, drawn from an excellent blog post on adding your own osx boot launch scripts, an archive script on launching cruise on unix init, and the tacit information in the MySQLCOM Bootstrapper contained in the OSX Binary Distribution.