Blogging from Flock

Trying out Flock again.  I've always liked the way Flock works, but with as often as I write in my blog I just never get around to using it much.

Blogged with Flock

Getting to know Markaby

I've spent the past two evenings hard at work on an update of jonsteenbergen.com. Since I was building it using Ruby on Rails I figured I'd give Markaby a shot. The syntax is interesting, I'm not exactly sure what I think. So far it does seem a bit cleaner, plus I'm writing Ruby instead of HTML - that can't be all bad.

It did take a bit of poking around to figure out how to escape HTML characters like the © symbol. I still haven't figured out how to handle <br /> tags yet. But, I think I'll stick with it through this project (or at least most of it.)

In case you are wondering, the escape works like this:

p do
    text "my escaped string &copy;"
end

It's finally here!

After months and months of waiting Apple has finally released the iPhone SDK! It's HUGE, the zipped download was about 2.1gb and it needs over 5gb to install. It might be best to wait till the hoopla dies down, I know the site was super-slow earlier tonight.

Guess it's time to brush up on my Objective C, I've been dreaming of a good solid To-Do list application I keep with me at all times. The Moleskine just isn't cutting it.

The SDK is available here.