Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

I kind of like the work Last.FM put into setting up infrastructure monitoring displays around their office. From old analog devices measuring web server response time to a series of traffic light colored bears that detects problems in an SVN check-in, it’s the kind of thing I’d like to set up at work if I [...]

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Someday I’ll be able to get into this iPhone business, I hope.

Cocoa developer Craig Hockenberry wants you to file a bug report on the OS X license restrictions that prevent desktop virtualization:
How can you develop new products for Leopard when you need to have Tiger installed for supporting your legacy applications? How easy is it to test a new feature on Mac OS X 10.4.11 when [...]

The iPhone SDK has finally landed, bringing with it real Exchange support, WPA2 and other goodies. You can watch the announcement event here, or read highlights and commentary at Daring Fireball.
Although I don’t own an iPhone (yet), I did download the SDK and look forward to playing with it. My feelings about the price structure [...]

The new MacBook Air looks like an great machine, and I wish I had a need for one. I don’t have a desktop at home, and I doubt I would be happy with the Air’s performance as my primary workstation, so planning on sticking with my MacBook Pro for the foreseeable future.
What’s exciting to me [...]

DroboShare is an add on to the Drobo storage device; giving you the ability to access your data over a GB network connection. It’s neat, and lack of network sharing has always been a valid criticism of the Drobo compared to some of its competitors, but given the price I can’t see much of a [...]

Chyrp blogging engine:
Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine; so you can personalize it however you want.
I like the philosophy behind Chyrp; it seems clean and lightweight without sacrificing [...]

Since I’ve been using VMware Fusion a lot recently, I’ve started looking around for performance tips (both to get the best results from inside Fusion, and avoid slowing my MacBook Pro to a crawl when it’s running in the background). Besides buying more RAM or a faster Mac, here are a few things you can [...]

Last week the inevitable finally happened, and one of the drives in my RAID-0 array (attached to a PC I keep pretty much just for file serving) started to fail. Since I built it a few years ago the RAID has pretty much been temporary, until I could find some sort of redundant storage system [...]

From TidBITS Networking:
Leopard includes more information about Wi-Fi networks in the vicinity of your computer than meets the eye. Mac OS X 10.5 updates the AirPort menu in the system menu bar after you select, which is a neat feature and provides more accurate results. It also shows a lock icon next to networks protected [...]