Blog

Perfect.

Continue ▻

I’ve watched many a TED presentation; Jamie Oliver’s is one of my favorites. His wish? Teach every child about food to help fight obesity and the premature death of millions. Noble, right, fantastic.

Continue ▻

Finished. Learned a lot.

Continue ▻

A photo taken while visiting Liquid Interactive‘s offices. Sweet digs.

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Already have a first-generation iPad and want to use Apple’s shiny new Smart Cover? Dan Provost, from The Glif fame, has figured out how to use the Smart Cover on the first-gen iPad.

Continue ▻

Last night I grabbed the sample of a book that I was debating the purchase of from the iBooks Store on my iPad. When I read through only a few pages of the book I knew I wanted to purchase the entire book. But then I saw the price and it confused me. It wasn’t […]

Continue ▻

This is the sort of propaganda the world could live without. Verifone’s CEO, Douglas G. Bergeron,wrote an "open letter" about Square being a potential security risk to card holders because Square could be used to "skim" information from a credit card. Well, one thing he omitted (probably because he’s a bit biased) is that a […]

Continue ▻

I have a lot to learn but I’m never going to learn if I don’t practice, practice, practice. So, here’s me practicing. I hope to finish this one this week and start a new one next week. I’m going to attempt one watercolor per week for a little while to get my legs back.

Continue ▻

The success of The Watercolor Gallery thus far has been extremely gratifying. I really enjoy the effort it takes (and believe me it is an effort) to find art to feature, to dig for the details of a painting or an artist online, and to describe what inspires me about it.And so far that effort […]

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Following up on [my obvious love for Notational Velocity](http://cdevroe.com/?s=notational velocity) is this little nugget from Justin Blanton via Twitter. The latest build of Notational Velocity can actually handle bulleted lists in plain text using unicode bullets and some smarts. Here is how you do it, again, via Blanton; "Do [space][some bullet-type char […]

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] see more lulz pichars I’m apologizing now for linking you to Pichars and, inevitably, wasting your entire day.

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] These guys are thoroughly crazy. Wow. /via Devour.

Continue ▻

I remember rumors of Apple building a display that would allow you to dock your iPhone into it to use it as a computer. Then you’d just undock it and be on your way. That product never saw the light (or was never real to begin with). Motorola, however, has gone and built something fairly […]

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Since posting about the iPhone apps that I use most I’ve had a few requests to do the same for the iPad. So, here are the iPad apps that I use most. Mail.app. I check, read, and write email on the iPad every single day. I actually prefer using the iPad to […]

Continue ▻

Now that I have Notational Velocity on the command line perhaps I need to map Notational Velocity to a Github wiki too. [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468]

Continue ▻

I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

Continue ▻

I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

Continue ▻

I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

Continue ▻

I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

Continue ▻

I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

Continue ▻

I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

Continue ▻

I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

Continue ▻

I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

Continue ▻

I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

Continue ▻

I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

Continue ▻

I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

Continue ▻

I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

Continue ▻

I thought I would follow Shawn Blanc’s lead and let everyone know how to properly say my last name, Devroe. My family has always had to correct people when they take the first stab at it – usually saying Dev-uh’-row or Dev’-row. One of my brothers has actually given up and now goes by the […]

Continue ▻

I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you […]

Continue ▻

[viddler id-dea1f56f h-405 w-640] If you couldn’t attend MagicRuby in Orlando, Florida you can view some short and sweet video interviews with some of the attendees and speakers over on Viddler.

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I can not tell you how much this resonates with me. I spent the better part of my childhood trying to move things using The Force.

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m not sure why but I’m on a command line kick lately. Not just the Tron Legacy style for Terminal but I’ve now begun using iTerm2 as my Terminal application of choice. I have it in a second Space on Mac OS X fullscreen with 3 shells running. The first shell is […]

Continue ▻

A few steps backward, a few steps forward. The last two weeks have been pretty much a wash – but I’m glad that I’m back on track and headed in the right direction – down. This weekI weighed in, again, at 200lbs. The same asI did on January 18th. SoI’ve lost the 2 pounds that […]

Continue ▻

I know, my blog is turning into a Tumblr-a-thon. But I’ve done this before when I used to talk about Brightkite, Ma.gnolia, WordPress, Twitter and other services that I become attached to and care about. This is my blog and I can cry if I want to. Here is how David Karp, founder of Tumblr, […]

Continue ▻

Given my recent spat on Tumblr about their downtime and the messaging coming from their team and investors, I thought this quote by Jason Fried of 37Signals in INC. was apropos: "Of course, all companies experience episodes like this. How they handle the situation is what counts. I’m not talking about fixing the problem—you have […]

Continue ▻

I have been a supporter of OpenID for a long time. But I agree with the decision by 37signals to drop it. What could have been never happened and, as it would seem that not much is being done to fix that, it would be better to just get rid of it so as to […]

Continue ▻

I’ve already said all I’ve wanted to say about why I don’t think Tumblr’s team and investors should be focused solely on traffic. But, it appears they still are. Bijan Sabet, partner at Spark Capital and one of the lead investors in Tumblr, today on his tumblog: "i gotta talk to @davidkarp about this. if […]

Continue ▻

The last time I did The Diet I had a "gain week" on the second week. This time it took me 6 weeks to have a "gain week". The reasons? The excuses? They are many. Ridiculously cold weather, the NFL playoffs, eating well, etc. But none of those really matter. Having a "gain week" isn’t […]

Continue ▻

Not many people know how well suited Viddler‘s platform is for developing on top of. Kyle Slattery and I are heading to Florida in a few weeks to attend Magic Ruby to let some talented Ruby developers know just that. We’ve set up a special page on Viddler just for Magic Ruby to help let […]

Continue ▻

As I just announced on the Viddler blog, Apostrophe – the amazing CMS built by my friends at Punk Avenue, now includes deep support for Viddler. Huzzah!

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m not sure I dig this (as I think it removes the entire point of an iPad) but I will give 100 points for style to the iPad Keyboard Case that effectively turns the iPad into a laptop.

Continue ▻

Half the distance to the goal. NFL referees usually use this term as a unit of measure for a penalty against the defense. Depending on what that goal may be, a first down or the end zone, the distance differs. In this case, it is exactly 20 pounds, and the defense is my fat. Today […]

Continue ▻

I have to say, this makes very little sense. It is the Chrome team’s prerogative to add or remove any feature from their browser that they’d like to but the reasons they’ve given simply do not make much sense. At least not from my desk or the desk’s of others. John Gruber, as he typically […]

Continue ▻

This week I rested on my laurels just a bit. I didn’t work out a single time (other than my weekly basketball routine) and I even drank a few beers. I think I have a fairly good excuse about the beer though – I went to the Eagles vs. Packers playoff game. However, that is […]

Continue ▻

Tomorrow my parents will have just hit their 42nd wedding anniversary. Happy Anniversary to them. /photo credit: Peter Devroe.

Continue ▻

Taken in February 2009 in [Carwanna in Carbondale, PA](http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&expIds=17259,27586,27856,28060&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&cp=22&qe=Y2FyYXdhbm5hIGNhcmJvbmRhbGUsIHBh&qesig=rnnUGI7sMdrWWB_iEJN9KA&pkc=AFgZ2tl_Ea3FNMFocT7IS2XjL-tw25HxZAjPAkR_WWCzogwGUTX19RvVMqZDTJUKRIe6KD1TksqZKya4PPGRWxwZrPfGGijd1A&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=carwanna carbondale pa&fb=1&gl=us&hq=carwanna&hnear=Carbondale, PA&cid=11571800602353308970).

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Every since seeing Tron Legacy I’ve wanted Flynn’s computer. From what I’ve heard on the Interwebs it runs Sun Solaris. Since I’m a Mac guy maybe I can have my Terminal look like The Grid’s UI without needing to run an entirely different OS. I’m basing this style solely off of this […]

Continue ▻

One of the fun parts of making wine is making the wine label. Eliza really loves having a wine label per wine that we make. For the most part we’ve been able to do this with any of the good wine batches we’ve made. Here are a few of them.

Continue ▻

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] So it turns out my fears have been abated. The Mac App Store is great. Simply run Software Update on any Macintosh running Snow Leopard.

Continue ▻