Windows Live Writer isn’t bad 1

Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards Windows Live Writer. Short answer, it’s nice.  I’ve installed the 2009: Release Candidate and published to WordPress with no problems whatsoever. 

Playing around with Rails again 1

I’ve been knee deep in the Java world for a long time doing a combination of desktop, backend J2EE (spring/hibernate) and most recently Seam-based web application development. It’s the Christmas break and I’ve taken a bit of time to create an Ubuntu VM with Rails 2.2 installed in it.  Rails has come a long ways ...