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Use FF To Go on an iPhone? Consider the Official Version

I built FF To Go knowing that it was only a matter of time before FriendFeed would build an official mobile FriendFeed experience.  So when FriendFeed announced an iPhone friendly FriendFeed I wasn’t shocked nor saddened.
FF To Go wasn’t really built for iPhone users; it was built for everyone else.  See the iPhone supports Javascript [...]

Higher Education Isn’t Worthless

Megen and I had traditional afternoon tea yesterday and couldn’t help overhearing an infuriating conversation coming from the table next to us.  The table consisted of a mother and her daughter (the daughter was likely in her 20s) and another woman.  They were discussing trivial things like purchasing new sofas and how filling the scones [...]

FF To Go: Editable Comments

People have been asking for this feature to be added to FF To Go but I wasn’t really happy with any of the solutions I came up with.  Ideally there would be a call I could make to the FriendFeed API to get the body of a comment but that does not exist.  In the [...]

I’m A Believer; 100% Git

Distributed revision control systems are all the rage.  I used to use Bazaar (bzr) for everything; it’s easy to get up and running with a very low barrier to entry especially for those coming from systems like Subversion (svn).  I really had absolutely no problems with bzr but decided to give Git a try when [...]

FF To Go Is Now Open Source

I’ve been meaning to open source FF To Go and try out git; today I accomplished both.  FF To Go source code is available at GitHub.  It’s under the MIT license.  Check out the code and submit patches if you’d like.
So far I like git but I need more time with it before I make [...]