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I’ve now had my iPhone for 50 days, so thought I’d give you all a quick review.It’s incredible!

But, I have decided to jailbreak it — which, by the way, is pretty easy to do.

The main reason for jailbreaking the iPhone, is because you can’t send a text message to multiple people, which in my opinion, is a really big oversight by Apple. Other than this small problem, the iPhone is pretty perfect… or, I thought it was pretty perfect.

Since jailbreaking, I have re-fallen in love with this gadget. It’s incredibly powerful, and now does all of the things I wish it could do from the off.

• Rule number one when buying the iPhone. Jailbreak!
• Rule number two: buy some decent headphones. I just bought the V-moda ‘phones, and they’re really, really good. 

I host all of my website with Dreamhost. I think they’re fantastic — a little slow, perhaps — but they’re full of features, and let you install all kinds of goodness on their servers.

Recently, however, I have been struggling to get Ruby on Rails working on their domains. I have been fighting an uphill battle and losing, until I worked out the Shebang! line in dispatch.fcgi…

#!/usr/bin/ruby1.8

This will magically get your RoR application working.

The full dispatch.fcgi file is below:

#!/usr/bin/ruby1.8
#
# You may specify the path to the FastCGI crash log (a log of unhandled
# exceptions which forced the FastCGI instance to exit, great for debugging)
# and the number of requests to process before running garbage collection.
#
# By default, the FastCGI crash log is RAILS_ROOT/log/fastcgi.crash.log
# and the GC period is nil (turned off).  A reasonable number of requests
# could range from 10-100 depending on the memory footprint of your app.
#
# Example:
#   # Default log path, normal GC behavior.
#   RailsFCGIHandler.process!
#
#   # Default log path, 50 requests between GC.
#   RailsFCGIHandler.process! nil, 50
#
#   # Custom log path, normal GC behavior.
#   RailsFCGIHandler.process! '/var/log/myapp_fcgi_crash.log'
#
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment"
require 'fcgi_handler'

RailsFCGIHandler.process!

It’s amazing!

The MacBook Pro that Vuture bought me is incredible. The whole machine flies (not literally, obviously) and running Windows in real-time alongside OS X is such a boon.

If you have the money, I would definitely recommend that you buy one of these beasts.

One week ago today I started fulltime work at Vuture.
Today, Vuture ordered me a brand new 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro! (For those of you who don’t understand “Geek speak”, that means: kick-ass laptop).
I’m very excited!

Thank you Vuture!

I have fallen in love. Seriously, I’m truly, truly smitten with Coda from Panic. It is a fantastic bit of kit, and by far better than Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS3.

The page views are stunning, the FTP integration and large Publish All button works incredibly well.

While the text editor isn’t as powerful as Textmate, and the CSS editor isn’t as flexible as CSSEdit2, the overall synergy of this tool is fantastic.

The tradeswomen development blog is up and running. Check it out!

I know, I know: it’s just a camera. But the colour reproduction is incredible, and the lens is phenomenal. Today (about 24 hours after the camera arrived) a fisheye lens arrived from eBay.

The photos I have taken with it will appear on flickr tomorrow at some point, but taking photos on a beautiful camera that come out so nicely lomographied is a strange but great experience.

I’ve just ordered a Canon EOS 350D digital SLR camera. It’s a 8-megapixel beast, and the picture quality is amazing!

Here’s a sample photo, taken on my first day with the camera, to show off how good the lens is: