J()by Bednar

A 5.4-5.8 quake rocked Chino Hills today... about a mile north-west of my house.  Coming home I found the usual crooked pictures, small items having fallen off the shelves, etc.  The most notable was a lava lamp that fell off my computer desk (thank god that didn't break... fell ontop of my power supply/backup battery) and this candle holder:

Quite impressive that it was caught between the shelf and the sliding closet door!  Now that is talent!  Time to vacuum up the rest of that that wasn't nearly as nimble...

All in one day I upgraded to the new MobileMe platform from .Mac (I'm excited by SproutCore, so I was eager to test it out), download and update my iPod touch to the 2.0 software and grab a bunch of apps AND got an email from my personal savior, Steve Jobs (well, his company... but Apple IS Steve, so it's all the same):

You have never seen someone dive for their credit card and complete an online purchase so fast!  I spent today organizing my laptop making space for the dev tools and such, getting my account setup and the various needed keys and certificates, and testing a couple apps loaded onto my iPod.  So beautiful it makes me cry. *sniff*

I LOVE YOU STEVE!

Every new programming language starts their tutorial with a Hello World application.  It's a standard.  Thus, I present to you my Hello World:

Yo.  What up peeps.

I know, not very impressive... neither is a Hello World app. <shrug />

Well, the message isn't so snazzy, but this blog system is.  MangoBlog is a pretty impressive plugin architecture blog system written in ColdFusion.  I've met the lady who developed it and talked with her about creating architectures like this.  I've always wanted to do so, especially after playing with WordPress, but never had much of a chance.  At work we started redesigning our core framework and I was able to finally delve deeper into a system that offered up an ability to have modules load in.  It's not quite where I want to take it... but it's still pretty friggin' awesome.  Much of it's inspiration came from delving through the code of MangoBlog.  It's a great product. <thumbs up />