I was kind of excited to hear more about Arc, preferably from someone in the know—is it as cool as Paul Graham says it is? Lispers speak your mind!

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It’s been a while since I’ve made any changes to the Ruby on Rails bundle for TextMate—not because there aren’t worthy changes or contributions, but rather, because I’ve been squeezed for time and using Rails itself less often than I used to.

SO, in good open source manner, the maintainership is being passed on to one Dr. Nic Williams of Australia (he’s a good guy, you’ll like him). Thanks to Dr. Nic, we should be seeing some new and tasty things for the Rails bundle that correspond to the Rails 2.0 changes.

If I may say so, TextMate’s Ruby / Rails support is second to none. It was made possible by the efforts of many people, and soon to be more. Thanks Dr. Nic, and to everyone else who has contributed!

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The “Getting Things Done” philosophy and workflow is something I’ve been trying to implement lately. The costs up front are high, but the benefits are many—eventually, I hope to tune my brain to work something like a pre-emptively scheduled multicore processor. Heh. We’ll see.

In the meantime, here are some interesting applications for the Mac that have caught my attention. I’ve written a short review of each of them—why I like it or why I don’t. Please feel free to chip in if I’ve missed a feature, or if I’ve missed out on a great application somewhere.

ShoveBox ($25)

ShoveBox is a little gem I found a while ago that is simple and very useful—it acts as a fantastic aggregator of random bits of information throughout the workday. It has an “inbox” where new things get shoved so you can organize later when you have the time. Just drag and drop.

While not truly a “GTD” application, there are plenty of reasons why ShoveBox could work like one. For example, I’m particularly fond of the QuickJot window—press a shortcut key of your choosing (I have it bound to F7) and a transparent window appears where you can quickly type a message or note to yourself for later. Also, power users can use “rules” to sort items automatically, and they can even execute shell commands!

Once items are “shoved” or “jotted” into ShoveBox, you can open the Organizer window to … well, organize. There is a Mail-like interface that is quite familiar—just drag items to folders and keep things where they belong.

The search capability in the Organizer seems to work well, although I would like to see better keyboard support. At present, you must use the mouse to click the search area, then type, then use your mouse again to select the item you want out of the result list.

In fact, if I have one complaint for this application, it’s the overall poor keyboard support. For example, if you want to open an item from the Organizer window, only a double-click will do it (if you press “enter”, it helpfully lets you edit the title, but there’s no way to get out of editing mode if you made a mistake). If the folders on the left have the keyboard focus (i.e. pressing the arrow keys moves from folder to folder), then there is no way to move the focus to the items on the right.

If the author would pay attention to keyboard-only workflow, I would probably drop any GTD-specific application for this one. It’s that sharp.

Thinking Rock (Free)

Thinking Rock is much more of a GTD application than ShoveBox. In exchange for simplicity, you get quite a powerful tutor that has all of the bells and whistles you’d expect of a GTD app. Thinking Rock guides you through a lot of the “flowchart” involved in making decisions—is it actionable? should it be deferred? can you put a date to it? what context should it be placed in?

One of my favorite things about Thinking Rock is the overview (”home” icon). Unlike other GTD applications that assume you understand the Getting Things Done workflow, Thinking Rock provides a graphical flowchart / overview page that looks like this:

Another part of ThinkingRock that is especially well thought out is the way in which the form pages change dynamically to reflect your decisions about an item. For example, there is a radio button with two options “This item is actionable”, “This item is NOT actionable”. When you choose “not actionable”, most of the form gets cleaned up so that you just focus on reasonable choices: i.e. “Ok, if it’s not actionable right now, when would you like to schedule it?”

The downside to ThinkingRock (at least on a PPC Mac) is that it’s a Java app. In practice, what that means for me is that it takes between 15 and 20 seconds to load the application, and changing from screen to screen is like molasses. In addition, there is no syncing with iCal. Also, since it’s not a native Mac app, it does suffer from not following the Apple design guidelines—for example, the icons are quite small and not very intuitive. It took a little poking around to know how to get back to the overview screen.

With these caveats in mind, however, I haven’t found anything as well-designed and carried out for those of us who need a little guidance through the GTD method. I will probably use ThinkingRock as a learning tool until I settle on a Mac OS X native app.

Things ($49)

Now for a real GTD app that’s also a native Mac OS X app. There are several applications that would fall under this category (and I’ve listed some of them below, “Other Apps”) but after reviewing several, I’ve found Things to be the most intuitive, beautiful, and least complicated of the group.

Tasks are simple and easy to add to the system—in fact, I don’t think I’ve used a cleaner interface for tasks. UI widgets that you don’t need are tucked away when you don’t need them, and available when you do (such as date, reminder). Tasks can easily be promoted to become projects (drag and drop to projects). And the “tags” system of categorizing and managing contexts is both flexible and simple. I’ve found that I don’t need many contexts yet, so I don’t use tags much—but I sense that as I rely more heavily on Things to do my organizing, I will depend on tags for structure and filtering.

One thing that really appeals to me about Things is the use of “areas” in addition to “projects”. For some reason, it irks me to put something like “maintain my relationship with Kelty” in a “project”. It’s not really a project, it’s an ongoing area of interest and concern. Thus, there is a place to put items and projects that have no due date but still need to remain “in the queue”. They’re kind of like system background processes. (Or “high priority foreground processes” in the case of my relationship with Kelty )

Currently, Things is in alpha and has some limitations (and probably some bugs). For example, items in the sidebar can not be dragged. Also, items within projects cannot be turned into new projects (but unfiled items can), and the shortcut key that brings up a quick-entry transparent window cannot be bound to the F (function) keys.

Overall, Things is my favorite pick so far—as soon as it comes out of Alpha (sometime this spring), I will probably purchase it. Oh, and by the way, if you sign up for the mailing list by the 31^st of January, you’ll get 20% off when the final product is shipped.

Other Apps I’m Keeping My Eye On

Actiontastic (Free), iGTD 2 (Free), OmniFocus ($80), Midnight Inbox ($35)

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It’s here again! The Mountain West Ruby Conference will be held this March 28th and 29th (Friday / Saturday), this year in Salt Lake City. I went last time it was held in SLC and loved the location—the library there is remarkable, and seemed a nice location for a conference.

I’m looking forward to meeting Ezra Z., the author of Merb, and as yet an “internet-only” friend of mine. There will be many other friends and brilliant minds there too. Come on out if you’re looking to learn more and meet new people in the business.

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As you may have noticed from my recent posts, I’ve been on a language kick—exploring mostly functional programming languages and comparing the merits of various choices. I’ve finally narrowed my “next language” down to a single entry: Erlang.

I was reluctant to learn Erlang when I first heard about it. Perhaps it was because I hadn’t felt some of the pain associated with Ruby yet. Or maybe it was because all of my cool Ruby friends were learning Erlang. (I tend to resist fads as much as possible.) But Erlang looks to be more useful than a fad, and a good move on the part of my friends (you know who you are). For those of you who are Erlang early-adopters and advocates: well done

So, why Erlang? My reasons are 4-fold:

1. Speed: Erlang is a very fast language, earning a sweet 5.7 on this benchmark. Ruby, by comparison, earns a 54.
2. Reliability: Ericsson (the telecom company whose employees built Erlang) reports that since deploying their Erlang communications application, their downtime has averaged 5.2 minutes per year. That’s 99.999% uptime. They’re definitely doing something right!
3. “Functional”-ity: It turns out that I missed Erlang in my functional-language round-up a few days ago. Erlang is a functional language, and therefore benefits from a concise and expressive syntax. In addition, it doesn’t seem to suffer from some of the same difficulties that purely functional languages do when dealing with I/O.
4. Concurrency: Erlang is famous for its speed-boosts when adding hardware concurrency. Because of its message-passing architecture, upgrading a CPU to a dual-core or quad-core actually has the effect of doubling or quadrupling the execution speed. This is a very nice feature to have just baked in—especially at a time when Intel is making 2ⁿ concurrent processor cores.

Anyway, not that anyone was really on the edge of their seat wondering what language I would pick to learn next… but in case the information is useful, I pick Erlang.

Notable Resources:

• Yariv’s Blog, Ericsson’s Biggest PR Blunder
• Pragmatic Programmers, What’s All This Fuss?
• WagerLabs, Java vs. Erlang
• Erlang.org, Getting Started [pdf]

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Ok, I have two nearly unrelated but interesting things to blog about today—let’s see if I can combine them into one post.

First, Shakespeare. Wow, what a poetic and expressive programming language that gets nearly nothing done! I had a friend over yesterday (Jamin) and we read the “acts” and “scenes” involved in generating prime numbers in the language. We laughed about the idea of actually having a theatre group perform “Primes”. The plot itself might not satisfy the theatre-connoisseur’s appetite. But then, I wonder, would the audience be impressed to find that the story performed before them had actually been an algorithm in action? Nah, maybe not. Well, unless the audience was composed of CS students and math geeks.

Moving on. Second, a decades-old question: Can dynamic languages scale? Ted Neward adds much-needed clarity to the discussion about “scalability” and points out that we must be more careful about what we mean by “scale”. Here are his two definitions:

1. Size of project, as in lines-of-code (LOC)
2. Capacity handling, as in “it needs to scale to 100,000 requests per second”

Shakespeare obviously can’t scale, (in neither the scale(1) way, nor the scale(2) way, but possibly in the scale(3) way of “creativity…”) But the distinction helped me to frame my own programming challenges in a new way—I’ve absolutely loved the scalability(1) of Ruby, but in recent months I’ve become somewhat frustrated by the in-scalability(2) of it as well. Algorithmically, there is still a lot that we can do to improve our MemoryPress.com system, but still, it’s frustrating to be bound by a language that is 40-50x slower than C . I’m starting to eye Erlang, Scheme, and Haskell jealously.

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