I'm really proud to have been on the team that accomplished this. Ryz is a website where people can submit shoe designs and see them rendered in 3D within minutes, then enter them in a contest to win $1000 plus royalties.

This is all based on the Communitas social networking platform which should be opening for public beta in the next month or two. I've joined the Communitas team (Jaybill) and will be tweaking the API, developing new modules, and helping write documentation.

I've been looking for the Mac equivalent of Scooter Software's flagship (and only) product, Beyond Compare for a while now. Looks like I have finally found something that at least begins to, well, compare to Beyond Compare (sorry).

It's called Changes, and it's my friend now.

This app will not only come in handy with web development, but it will help me combine all my various old backups into one backup so I can throw away those DVDs. It will answer the questions, "Why do I have three backups of this? Are they different?"

It's no Beyond Compare, but it's the only program I know of like it for Mac, so I'm happy.

Turns out DasBlog is pretty difficult to use and customize. I didn't even realize until today that in order to post a comment, you have to be some sort of a scientist. Even I was unable to comment on my own post. I'll try to turn that off ASAP.

Now that I'm pretty comfortable with PHP, I might be moving my blog to Wordpress. We'll see...