Since Jason and I are working together again, we are trying to improve our development methods. Since pretty much every XML and or XSLT editor out there pretty much sucks overall, we are trying to learn to live with Emacs

Now, this is not an Emacs versus vi thing, this is about getting real work done. I happily use Emacs, vi, Textpad, notepad, XML Spy (grid view is kinda cool), Komodo (like the debugger for XSLT/PHP/Python). The only problem is, I have very targeted things that I need to do when edited XML or XSLT. The beautiful thing is that many people also have this need, and Emacs has many extensions that help to handle these tasks.

I am now almost fully using my RedHat box at work, using Emacs and Phoenix.

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Just finished the taxes. Used TurboTax Online, and it was as painless as I could imagine it. The ability to file electronically for both federal and state meant that I did nothing but answer the questions, and pay the $45. Gladly do it instead of installing software, dealing with registration, etc. The thing even imported my W-2 information.

Regardless of the protocol, this is why web services is worth it.

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In looking for non-US perspectives on Dubya’s genius, I ‘came’ across this. Interesting…

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I finally got dotnot.org set up with some form of order, so now I can start posting.

So what am I running? A 1GHz AMD with 512MB RAM, OS is RedHat, Apache 2.1-dev (CVS HEAD), PHP, MySQL, and b2.

My mail is delivered via qmail 1.0.3, with the DNS patch, filtered through Bayespam, with a web interface provided by SquirrelMail. More on my spam techniques later.

I intend to install Subversion for source control at some point, but haven’t finished that task yet.

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