rexVM – A virtualBox Appliance for Developing for The REX 6000
As most of you readers probably know, I have been terribly remiss in my postings of late. That isn't to say that I haven't been hacking. Oh no. Bootstrapping a startup requires hacking all over the place. During the past week alone I've
- Gotten to know my franchise tax agent on a first name basis
- Authored contracts, which in my opinion should be written in python
- Authored a research paper on novel methods for efficient bulk virtual machine storage and retrieval (stay tuned for that one!)
- Reminded myself daily why I use git, while writing features integrating svn, cvs, etc
- Created what, I am fairly sure, is the world's largest openWRT/BCM5354 firmware image/executable set
- Created at least 10 new project virtual machines
Which actually brings me out of my /startup header and back into :/publish . One of the terrific things about founding a startup (ducks!) is the flexibility you get while setting up your workflow. Long a proponent of integrating virtual machines into business processes, I have been enjoying the real freedom a robust virtualized system can provide. I'll get into the detailed workflow later in the post. For those 'first page only' readers I'll get to the golden ticket, I recently picked up a REX 6000 credit card PDA for 6$ at the local thrift.
Read on for (much) more and download links!
Finished building my first guitar
Mark brought over his copy of Make, and it turns out this last Makezine had a great article on building cigar box guitars. It sounded like a really interesting project, so we went off to the hardware store to purchase some oak timber. Many days/hours/blood stains later, the fruits of our labor emerged, tuned and ready to play. 
. Lots of hack potential, and an easy fix if I break something. Bonus, tablature looks fine in links browser on the Z2, though you will have to scroll quite a lot. I'll see about getting gnome guitar working, should be interesting (mono bleh). Yet again another use case for the Z2 I wouldn't have imagined.