November 2008
1 post
“Python reads how Tarzan talks”
– Bruce Williams
October 2008
5 posts
“The system should always respond in a manner which causes the “least...”
– 3.9 Use the principle of “least astonishment” - Erlang Programming Rules
Screenflick: screen capturing for OS X →
Screenflick features high performance screen capturing for smooth, fluid motion up to 60 fps. Screenflick can record any portion of the screen, simultaneously recording audio from internal or external microphones and the system audio.
FancyZoom Meets Prototype →
History of the browser user-agent string →
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing.
“I honestly don’t give a rat’s ass about architectural purity unless...”
– Roy T. Fielding on [rest-discuss]
September 2008
2 posts
Setting up SSL for Rails (and testing it locally) →
Rails: Performance Tuning Workflow →
August 2008
3 posts
“I’m sick of the internet not understanding that we live in the future”
– Sarah Hatter
July 2008
3 posts
Hex Color Picker →
Programmer Insecurity →
Make your own IM bot in Ruby →
June 2008
5 posts
“RailsConf Git Talk” at GitCasts →
Using TiVo Series 3 in Canada →
Apple TV - First Impressions In Canada →
I’m thinking about getting an Apple TV
WatchOffice Worker Goes Absolutely Insane Video
Why 37Signals Works to "One Down" the... →
May 2008
3 posts
Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Objective-C →
The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of All Time -... →
“Referer is a common misspelling of the word referrer. It is so common, in fact,...”
– HTTP referer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
April 2008
3 posts
Import Gmail Contacts in Rails →
Using Gmail’s contacts API to import contacts into your Rails application.
Tab Switching in Terminal.app →
If you’re like me then you no longer use multiple windows in Terminal.app at all, relying on tabs in a single window instead. This SIMBL plugin enables the use of ⌘1-9 to switch between the tabs in the current window, ala iTerm.
63 Must Have Grunge Fonts →
Some nice typefaces here. For when I need to make a poster for a show some day.
March 2008
7 posts
Ruby: irb readline support on Leopard →
The irb (Interactive Ruby) that ships with OS X 10.5 (Leopard) doesn’t use readline. Instead it uses libedit. Here’s how to change that.
Ruby: inject →
Jay Fields gives a thorough walk-through of Ruby’s Enumerable#inject.
Eleventh →
Bash Pitfalls →
Consuming non Rails-style REST APIs →
Git SVN Workflow →
Ick: Invocation Construction Kit, Raganwald
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February 2008
3 posts
Zip Quick Look Plugin →
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,... →
starling and asynchrous tasks in ruby on rails →
January 2008
3 posts
Using SQS and S3 to decouple image resizing from... →
Message queues are a nice addition to any programming bag. They decouple the sender from the receiver. Let’s take the usual problem: what to do with images once they are received. We don’t want to show the full size image, so we need to scale & crop them
cURL - Tutorial →
The increasing amount of applications moving to the web has made “HTTP Scripting” more frequently requested and wanted. To be able to automatically extract information from the web, to fake users, to post or upload data to web servers are all important tasks today.
Dave Thomas is Definitely the Sammy Sosa of... →
December 2007
6 posts
PragDave: Ruby 1.9—Right for You? →
Be smart about your technical debt →
Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X... →
Benchmark for Rails →
File upload forms that don't suck →
Google Chart API - Google Code →
November 2007
12 posts
Better Rails Migrations: Retroactive Migrations... →
Firebug RJS Errors →
A Rails plugin to override javascript debugging alert()s with the Firebug console.
Auto-expanding text boxes are misleading
I haven’t been using del.icio.us lately. Whatever. I just found I was gradually using it less, and eventually not at all. But I was just on there now, and they’ve got the tag search bar as the heading on the page, with an input box where you can type the name of the tag you’re looking for. Well, I wasn’t aware that it auto-expanded, so it never occurred to me that I could...
Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu →
A form interaction helper for Rails:... →
Adds a DSL to aid in testing forms:
get :new
submit_form do |form|
form.book.name = 'Pickaxe'
form.book.category = 'Programming'
form.book.out_of_print.uncheck
end
assert_response :success
7 of the Hardest Things I Learned About Writing... →