February 2012
4 posts
4 tags
Homebrew install issus (resolved)
I’ve been using Homebrew for a while now, and have enjoyed it’s simplicity and similarities to MacPorts.
Recently, after a bad OSX update (10.7.3), I had to reinstall OSX Lion from target mode, and then update via the combo-update above. Well, somewhere along the way something got overwritten, and I had to reinstall some apps and rejigger some settings. One of which, was ctags.
No...
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Replacing Google with Blekko
I decided to do a week-long switch from Google to Blekko as my primary search engine. I replaced my defaults in Chrome with Blekko and away I went.
TL;DR;
There are definitely some frustrating results returned where I instantly know that I’d get better results using Google (so I do), but on the whole for the majority of my searches Blekko is fine. I had the most issues with blekko when...
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Apps I'd have a hard time being without
The list
Evernote
MacVim (via Homebrew)
1Password
TeuxDeux.com
Chrome/Firefox
Git/Gitx
TextExpander
Dropbox
Alfred
Parallels
Time Machine
CrashPlan
iTerm
Skitch
Evernote
If you read my previous post you know why I can’t live without this tool. In case you didn’t, it’s because I use Evernote to track a majority of my day, to the point of being obsessive about it. I...
January 2012
14 posts
"God wants full custody..."
Saw this on Facebook today, and then cracked up laughing as I thought, “He shouldn’t have drowned his babies, because then he wouldn’t be in this custody battle.”
Nancy - Sinatra for the .net peeps →
Came across this in a tweet the other day and was excited to see such a framework. I wasn’t looking for anything like Sinatra for .net, but this got my brain-fingers tingling with the thought of creating some super-thin web API with Nancy. Yes, brain-fingers.
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The Simple Wooden Tokyo Home Office →
Mmm, clean lines. How does my desk get so cluttered? I think I need to start implementing some hard rules.
How many things need to be on my desk, at a minimal, to get work done?
External Monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
Macbook Pro
Lamp?
Alright, let’s say that’s it. Five items. I’ve been meaning to create a minimum + 2-3 rule so that at most, I could only have the bare-minimum...
Visualized Git best practices for teams →
Keepin’ it simple.
How Sitting All Day Is Damaging Your Body and How... →
Another reason for a stand-up desk. Reading this definitely made me stand up longer than the days prior.
I try to stand for 6 hours in my 8-5 workday, but I want to push for more.
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How I stay focused while telecommuting
I’ve been telecommuting for the past 3+ years now, at a recent networking event I had no less than three conversations sharing tips with others on how I make it work for me.
TL;DR;
Create a structure. A daily agenda. e.g. shower, coffee, email, work, etc
Log your activity in Evernote: notes, questions, meetings, screenshots
Use TeuxDeux.com to keep a small, running list of your active...
Wireframe your website on pape... (thenextweb.com) →
Makes me want a bigger whiteboard to stick these all over it.
*Wireframe your website on paper with these awesome smartphone and Web UI
stencils*
JavaScript Pattern Collection (blog.highub.com) →
*JavaScript Pattern Collection*
Dream: Einstein, Aliens, and the Bible
I had a dream of Emily reading an essay by Albert Einstein on why the Bible is wrong about extraterrestrials, and that it has been misquoted, and misused in the U.S. There was almost mentions of Jesus, but I forget the context.
What does it mean?!
Sugar: A Javascript library for working with... →
Remember to set WebRequest.Proxy=null, kids!
Was playing around with Google’s geocoder api using .NET’s WebRequest and WebResponse to get the JSON data back to my app.
All by itself, Google’s service is extremely fast, of course, but in my app, it was taking anywhere from 3s-16s to retrieve, and parse the JSON into POCOs. Not cool bro.
Turns out, I just needed to set the Proxy property on my WebRequest object to null, and...
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
1 post
Resumé foolery
Reading over some submittals for an open position we have, here are just two things that made me do a slight double-take:
“Here is some generic information below that I use to respond to opportunities.” Very classy
Giving us just their first name, and an email address that is 75% digits, and the other 25% is a single letter. Cryptic. Hiding something?
September 2011
1 post
2 tags
LESS CSS is cool
LESS is pretty damn cool. I wanted to create a simple star-rating set of styles, so that I could just add different classes to an element and it would output the appropriate graphic.
class=’star-1’ would be a 1 star rating class=’star-2’ would be a 2 star rating, etc
LESS took care of all the math I needed for the background offset. Pretty neat.
I’d used SASS/SCSS...
July 2011
4 posts
HTML loading. Raw html vs js array, etc. →
Test Your API with Cucumber and json_spec //... →
Waldo: Search the JavaScript Object Model in under... →
jquery.expand examples | Atomic Spin →
June 2011
16 posts
An open letter to speakers « Scott Berkun →
Only Five Networked Cars For Every 1,000 Would End... →
We stand upon the precipice of the future. Will you now sit with me while our automated car takes us there safely?
How to take advantage of Redis just adding it to... →
Lots of good info here on Redis if you’re new to it. It can do more than just store your data.
Koder for iPad: Nerds Rejoice! You Can Code on... →
Harvard Business Review: What Makes a Team... →
gitguys.com - git tutorials →
Beating 60fps in Javascript | Chandler's Blog →
Cool research into render-loops in js using various techniques.
Buffalo CloudStor 2-Bay 2 TB (1 x 2 TB) NAS →
Not a bad price, and easy to upgrade with a second drive.
Classes in Coffeescript →
It is a pretty nice syntax for the “clean” output it produces. Less junk-prototype code, and more simple js.
GitHub for Mac →
It’s nice, but not for me at this time. I love Github, but I also love iTerm+gitx
My gripes with JavaScript « IronJS Blog →
Some valid concerns, certainly, and the core-language itself does not solve the solution, but he does not mention tools like Coffeescript that can alleviate many of the gripes. I know that is not an optimal solution, but it’s an up-and-comer, I think.
ORM is an anti-pattern | Seldo.Com Blog →
What are some good resources for Backbone.js? -... →
CoffeeScript Cookbook » Home →
Elegant Code » Exploring CoffeeScript Part 1 – And... →
April 2011
1 post
Injecting html into iframe - jsFiddle →
March 2011
11 posts
MacRuby 0.10 Released: XCode 4 Support and App... →
Node.js Jobs →
Node.js job board is up
Scaling A JavaScript Codebase →
Definitely some solid suggestions in here.
“Was getting the “`validate_db_name’: db_name must be a string or...”
– Rails app won’t start - Mongoid | Google Groups
wvanbergen/chunky_png - GitHub →
Ruby lib for reading/writing PNG files
Railscasts - I18n Backends →
Rails 3 Performance: Abysmal to Good to Great |... →
Fresh Icon Sets To Improve You... (noupe.com)
*Fresh Icon Sets To Improve Your Designs* www.noupe.com/freebie /fresh-icon-sets-to-impr…>