Comments for Steve Kirks

Comment on Target Store remodel in Springfield, MO by Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag)

Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:40:59 +0000

A Target near us expanded in this way, and I remember not being very impressed by the selection. Didn’t seem like they had much or any in the way of locally produced or organic (where it counts). To me it seemed like an effort to one-up Walmart in style, but not necessarily in substance.

Comment on Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda – interviewed by Matt Haughey by Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag)

Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:49:04 +0000

I like to look back on the early days of PC Building and think of it as an inane distraction. There was so much time, so many cycles burned on getting the hardware to do what you needed to do to then create. Now we have tools that free users to create real stuff. That’s why Apple is winning.

Hey, is it snowing on your blog??

Comment on Why bother with Frontier again? by Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag)

Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:01:43 +0000

I’m looking back on my recollection of Frontier and I’m seriously trying to dig up some of those “good ideas”… Data and code bound up in a singular file… Hmm…

If you’re looking for a really barebones framework that offers a great language as well as all the trappings of good separation of interests, look at Rails or Django.

If you want a robust open-source CMS with a vibrant developer community, look at Plone.

If you’re trying to prove yourself as a “developer” then use Python and Ruby like all good developers do these days. I don’t have a CS degree and that’s how I make my living (C# over here, tho).

Comment on Why bother with Frontier again? by warwick

warwick — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:22:14 +0000

I’ve been looking for plenty of excuses to learn true C programming since I don’t have a formal CIS degree or background. The Frontier open source project made sense at one time since it was written in C, cross platform to some extent and I’m familiar with the result it produces. After reading through the source files for the last couple of weeks, it made the choice easier I guess. It was written for a different time and in a different way. To update it to a new way of doing things is folly. But, if you take some of the good ideas and find those features in other apps, you can come to a middle ground.

Comment on Why bother with Frontier again? by Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag)

Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:08:07 +0000

You’re on a role with nostalgia pieces, Steve.

I miss Frontier about as badly as I miss my early days learning programming with Pascal. It was an interesting language before we had modern software patterns, MVC, Dependency Injection, testing frameworks, data scaffolding. I can forego Windows editor and server compatibility. I am willing to jettison procedural languages. There’s no space for a wonky outliner in my toolbox.

It seems to me the train has left the station and more and more developers are embracing solutions like Rails for a good reason.

Comment on Dave Winer’s open community? by Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag)

Scott Alan Greiff (@scottag) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:10:55 +0000

I haven’t been to Scripting News in, like, forever. I think of that site as I do the early podcasts in the day of podcasts-about-podcasts. Too meta in the day, and too insignificant today.

Comment on The Passing of Steve Jobs by Nate Luke

Nate Luke — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:29:38 +0000

Thank you for sharing your heart

Comment on A Tale of Two Displays by warwick

warwick — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:26:57 +0000

I thought about that, but from what I’ve found, eBay is full of units of questionable history. I’m checking with my local Apple service part supplier just in case

Comment on A Tale of Two Displays by Eric

Eric — Sun, 22 May 2011 00:22:20 +0000

You should try EBay for a used 150…

Comment on Definitive Sound at a Rock Bottom Price by Tammy Kirks

Tammy Kirks — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:08:26 +0000

Yeah, it’s awesome. I can’t remember where I bought that Sinatra/Jobim, but it’s one of my favorites. A perfect way to break in the speakers without breaking the windows!