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. »

Carmen now supports states for nine countries

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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… »

What Pythonistas Think of Ruby »

A use case for Ruby's Enumerable#with_index, an often overlooked but useful method »

(fab) - a pure javascript DSL for building async web apps »

xaviershay's db2s3 adds handy rake tasks for backing up your database to S3:

So easy, there is no excuse to not use it.

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More than you want to know about JavaScript's delete:

Totally worth a thorough reading.

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memprof is a Ruby level memory profiler that doesn't patch the Ruby VM »

S3fm is a web-based Amazon S3 File Manager »

Despite it's snarkiness, this article contains some good JavaScript optimization tips »

documentcloud's underscore provides much of the utility of Prototype's native object extensions, without extending native objects. »

javan's whenever lets you define cron jobs in Ruby, and includes rake tasks to install these jobs into a user's crontab. »

Rubular is a Ruby regular expression editor and tester »

Windmill is a browser-based web testing framework:

Looks like a good alternative to Selenium or Watir.

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jnstq has excellent instructions for installing rails, nginx, and passenger on Ubuntu »

inherited_resources is the best REST controller library I've seen. »

Uploadify is a great JQuery File Upload Plugin »

These functions make it simple to convert between Latitude/Longitude and pixels when working with Google Maps. »

This Pastie provides ActionView with an incredibly useful inside_layout helper »

JSRoll is a new community-driven log of JavaScript news. Subscribed! »

Dan Webb has a fix for Low Pro for Prototype and Firefox 3.5 »

Simplifying CSS Selectors shows how browsers interpret CSS selectors »