June 2011
2 posts
Clack - Web Application Environment for Common... →
1983-xx-xx Sears Christmas Catalog - a set on... →
May 2011
4 posts
Ganglia References | Deanspot! →
fabrik42/acts_as_api - GitHub →
Fun With the Y Combinator in Ruby : Nex3 →
Untitled | Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
November 2010
5 posts
Gratuitious web bling →
or, Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean We Should
20 things is a site setup by Google which talks about the technologies behind and within web browsers. Color me impressed, absolutely. It’s…
Let's roll →
How To Read Error Messages for Ruby on Rails →
Off and on (more off than on, recently) I lurk in the #rubyonrails IRC channel and try to be helpful. It’s sad to say, but it’s really common that people have questions — something isn’t…
Anti-Gravity →
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October 2010
2 posts
One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor →
By Land and By Sea and By Reference →
Photo source I recently attempted to fit the quicksort algorithm into under 140 characters of Ruby. It looks like:
def q(s);t=s.dup;t.size
That’s a little hard to read, so here’s the…
September 2010
1 post
Why I don't like location based services →
So, I’ve resisted being involved in foursquare, gowalla, yelp check-in, Facebook places, even geo-tagging twitter entries, et al.: all the “location” based check-in type services out there….
August 2010
4 posts
Fun With The Major Scale →
Got to chatting with Nate (@fowlduck) about musical notation last night. He was pointing out that bits of the notation seem arbitrary and probably archaic, likening it to legacy code of a sort….
Push it somewhere else →
For all the folks in #rubyonrails, and beyond.
graffiti on a train →
Pic taken along the trail on the way from Minneapolis to Hopkins.
There Will Be No Newsletter →
So, a few weeks ago I saw letter.ly and I thought, hey, there’s an idea, so I created an account and thought to myself, what could I send out a newsletter about? I know, how about time…
July 2010
4 posts
RVM →
I gave a short presentation on RVM on Monday at RUM. The slides can be found at rubymn-rvm.heroku.com. Enjoy!
Faith →
I know, I know, the faux motivational poster is an old and tired meme. Sorry.
I Write Like →
I’ve seen the I write like links show up on facebook and twitter a few times, so I decided I’d take a look. Not content to simply feed it one sample, I fed it the text from several of the posts…
ubuntu lucid lynx on MacBookPro 5,3 →
June 2010
6 posts
Rails Links 001 →
As an experiment, I’m going to start making a link-post every so often. Maybe weekly? We’ll see. Eric Davis provides a big list of Capistrano variables (via larkgroup)
Fabio Akita took the…
It's unanimous →
WhinyRendering →
Quite often I’ll come into a Rails project with a good portion of the code already written. Depending on style the developers were using, this sometimes means that I may not be able to easily tell,…
All Your Webs →
Taptaptap made an extension that adds comments to Daring Fireball, and, as you can see in the comments, sparked a little debate on whether or not this was A Good Thing. It’s fine. I mean, I…
You Should Really Consider Parking Somewhere Else →
Design Is a Wicked Problem →
[Wittel and Webber] defined a “wicked” problem as one that could be clearly defined only by solving it…
… One of the main differences between programs you develop in school and those you…
May 2010
2 posts
77 Latest Examples Of Creative Single Page Website... →
Roll Your Own Computer Science Masters Program →
Struck by some sort of errant whim to get more edumacated, I started googling Computer Science Master’s Degree programs today. Actually, I did one google search and then jumped straight to the …
April 2010
3 posts
Validating Nested Attributes on Update →
So, let’s say you have a model, and a has_many relationship to another model. You want to accept nested attributes for the child models in your forms, and you also want to validate that the children…
xwing →
Oracle To Acquire Oracle →
REDWOOD SHORES — Oracle is rumored to have lined up yet another in a long string of billion dollar acquisitions, and this time they have set their sights on their very own corporation. No one from…
March 2010
1 post
Here Are The News →
This is simply awesome. Courtesy Dan Misener.
October 2009
10 posts
Double Shot #554 →
First full week of the new month. Time to get to work.
deeby – Rake tasks for working with multiple database.yml files. I can see this as having good applicability when you deploy a different…
crazy_treehouse.jpg (JPEG Image, 490x730 pixels) →
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That is an awe inspiring tree house. I am just saying.
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Flickr Photo Download: Folsom prison blues →
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Double Shot #552 →
Welcome to October.
10 Must-Have Rails Plugins and Gems (2009 Edition) – I probably wouldn’t have picked exactly the same ones, but this list from Relevance is a good start.
Gemcutter…
Robot model kit: Chubu 01 - Boing Boing →
via http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/17/robot-model-kit-chub.html
THEM THANGS →
via http://jblyth.com/blog.html
Graphic-ExchanGE - a selection of graphic projects →
via http://www.graphic-exchange.com/01graphic.htm
Limon Art {Portfolio : Artwork} →
via http://www.limon-art.com/port_art.html
Paper Plates : Joshua Gajownik →
via http://royalremarkabletm.com/index.php?/project/paper-plates/
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September 2009
5 posts
NOUS SOMMES DES SOLEILS →
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fUSION Anomalog. » Blog Archive » Obama Will... →
via http://www.fusionanomaly.net/wordpress/?p=4210
swissmiss | Arial versus Helvetica →
via http://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/09/arial-versus-helvetica.html
Google Classic →
This is lovely work.
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August 2009
1 post
Becoming a Copywriter (circa 2009) | TalentZoo.com →