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Took the GRE, picked up an iPhone, biked around town, now a little code before dinner. »
De-Loused In The Comatorium might be my favorite album of all time. »
Took the touring bike downtown to meet @MisterFarthing for lunch. I suggest finding an excuse to get outside and enjoy the weather. »
@Superserum Something like this, perhaps: http://bit.ly/ecn0S »
Feeling way to good for that to have been decaf coffee. »
@Superserum Just need to find a small waterproof camera now... »
Making crème fraîche. »
Disappointed but not surprised by Obama's support of ACTA http://bit.ly/90pDy8 »
It isn't really Monday until you've had a respectable technology FAIL. »
I just received a surprise package, which, once unpacked, allowed me to determine I had 1/2 an ounce of star anise in the cupboard. »
Can't wait for the $30 WiFi adapter to arrive so this quad core workstation doesn't have to piggyback off my laptop's wireless. Details... »
Turns out OCR and fractions don't really get along. Lots of %s where I don't want them. »
Heroku is exactly as awesome as everyone says it is. Just deployed an app in 5 minutes. »
Starting the Fountain soundtrack for the fourth time. Turns out it's amazing background music for writing code (or anything, really). »
RT @googlemaps: Google Maps now has biking directions! Check it out at http://maps.google.com/biking #bikewithgoogle »
RT @scottymac: Cute piglet alert! http://yfrog.com/5a73779062j »
Looking for a web-based OCR solution with an API. And trying to convince myself to not adopt a dog. »
Leaving for a return flight to Chicago and it looks like my laptop HD died during the night. I don't want to go back either, but come on... »
My best Catch Phrase clue from last night (for the phrase 'Ethel Merman'): "Half grandma, half sea creature" »
@interpunct You forgot to pack the scattered showers and thunderstorms! But I guess the airline would have charged a lot to check them. »
Apply jQuery event handlers once with $.fn.safe()
Today I was in this situation… »
Convert HTML to Haml within Textmate
I have been integrating a lot of well built HTML templates into Rails applications this week… »
Add an ActiveRecord scope for easier eager loading
In the optimization phase of a project, one of the first things I do is look for pages that could benefit from the use of ActiveRecord’s eager loading… »
Hiding parts of a view while in development
Most of my recent projects have involved working with a front end developer, who would provide HTML/CSS templates with dummy content to be integrated into a Rails backend… »
Dollar Spec is a tiny JavaScript spec library
Dollar spec is a tiny JavaScript spec framework that gets out of the way and lets you get things done… »
Install Passenger and nginx from source on Ubuntu
Passenger 2… »
Interrogation creates boolean accessors from named_scope declarations
This is a little hack I came up with today when I got tired of duplicating logic in scopes and accessor methods… »
Duplicate a Mac OS X Terminal window with Ruby and Appscript
Even though OS X’s Terminal now supports multiple tabs, I still find myself using lots of separate windows so I can see everything at once… »
xaviershay's db2s3 adds handy rake tasks for backing up your database to S3:
So easy, there is no excuse to not use it.
»More than you want to know about JavaScript's delete:
Totally worth a thorough reading.
»Windmill is a browser-based web testing framework:
Looks like a good alternative to Selenium or Watir.
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