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Homebrew is my new best friend for OS X package management. Setting up the new workstation has been painless so far. »
D&D Jones soda: http://www.myjones.com/limited/wizards »
RT @Chicago_Reader: Bike Winter Swap Meet and Urban Bicycle Expo tmrw at Jaks Tap http://is.gd/7MaE3 »
Office misunderstanding: If you want the fake puking sounds to be obviously fake and not at all realistic, I need to know that in advance. »
So happy to see this error message! http://yfrog.com/3i93udj »
OH: "That's some nice ASCII porn." »
Getting all kinds of balls rolling today. »
"It's a UNIX system. I know this." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng »
Had fun biking home in the snow. Wish I had my fancy new waterproof bike shoes with me though. Need to work on planning ahead. »
@shanev I'd agree there's plenty of prior art. That example looks more like a contextual menu to me- it isn't a source list. »
Was confused until I realized Mint.com renamed a purchase of Between the Buried and Me tix to "Between The Buns" (a restaurant, evidently). »
January gas bill: $291. Hello, winter. »
Just found the BBC's language site. http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ »
Another thoughtful take on the future of computing: http://bit.ly/bdAEZ8 I guess I'm just a crotchety Old Worlder. »
This is exactly how I feel about the recent trends in computing devices, especially those from Apple: http://bit.ly/ayKHYM »
Hatching top secret plans. Mwah ha ha. »
@lovehasnologic Good idea. But I want it to sound good. I guess a netbook + speakers could suffice. »
Having a lot of fun trying to get this spam filter to fail a comment. »
I think this is the first time I've eaten pasta that wasn't from a can with a spoon. »
I want a small stereo for the kitchen that can stream music from one of the many computers in the house. Squeezebox perhaps? »
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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