July 2009
95 posts
Content-owners make money off derivative work instead of suing or issuing cease & desist http://bit.ly/2aum98 #itsabouttime #newmedia
Relevance Blog : Working With Multiple Ruby... →
Filling out health care applications is completely insane. Every prescription I’ve had for 5 years? Including dosage and doctor?
Going away party for @danmayer this Saturday, Aug 1st, Lazy Dog, 9:00PM. Stop by and say farewell. Everyone is welcome!
As a rule, if a discipline contains the word “science”, it’s not a hard science. Case in point: forensic science http://bit.ly/edRaf
Why you should use Devver: http://bit.ly/DulMz (via @saturnflyer)
The ‘undo’ feature in Gmail doesn’t work if you’re in ‘Flaky connection mode’. So don’t send too quickly! #standup
Oh. My. Prepare for the motherload of geekdom: The Comic-Con 2009 Cosplay Gallery — 600 Amazing Costumes http://bit.ly/LE96J (via @bpm140)
#lazyweb: What’s the best replacement for evite?
Free Online Invitations, Party Planning and Guest... →
Trying to write unit tests for a DataMapper adapter. Feels like I’m doing it wrong … want to test read/read_one, etc but feels awkward
Perhaps I’m only supposed to test ‘first’, ‘all’ (the external DM interface)? But then I need to know the details of the mapping. Confused.
If I just sent you a lot of DM spam … really sorry about that. Still figuring out TwitRSVP.
Say farewell to @danmayer as he prepares to leave CO for DC. We’ll be having beers at Lazy Dog this Sat Aug 1st at 9PM. Stop by!
Craft the perfect gem with Jeweler at... →
Free wifi by chain: http://www.wififreespot.com/hotels.html and by airport http://www.wififreespot.com/airport.html (via my dad)
Heading downtown to play some LAN Starcraft at the office. If you want to join, DM me. You know you want to kick it old school.
Profiling Ruby With Google’s Perftools -... →
Ruby Unroller →
Did you mean: recursion? http://bit.ly/WRORk
I hate DRY in specs. Specs are denormalized data - readability trumps indirection every time (tho I do like RSpec behaves like) (via @eee_c)
The fact that hotels.com lets you order hotels by distance from a specific address is pretty darn useful.
hotels.com: I want to search for hotels with *free* wifi, not “Internet Access Available”. Every hotel has that.
Top 25 Punk Albums Ever! →
Every time Brian Williams is interviewed on the Daily Show, it’s both awesomely hilarious and hilariously awesome.
Thanks for the biz card recommendations, everyone
Startups: Where should I order new business cards from? Looking for good quality at a decent price. Good online ordering system is a plus.
Boulder looks like Seattle this morning.
Sitting on our porch watching the rain go sideways in the wind. Crazy storm, we just happen to be at an angle to enjoy it and not get soaked
Wrote up my thoughts on the discussion about REST Web Services we had @ the last @boulderruby http://rubyurl.com/jAnw (via @TheAmazingRando)
Danger Mouse’s new album got into trouble with music labels, so he released a CD booklet + blank CD + instructions to “use it as you will”
Smells like Rick-Roll (AKA Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up) http://bit.ly/VIlCh
Does using chroot for a publicly-exposed service... →
If you have too many all-day events on a specific day in iCal, the monthly view will hide some of them. Weird UI == missed bdays. #standup
… weirdly, this problem only occurs in Firefox. Safari works fine for the same sheets.
Recently I’ve been having trouble editing Google spreadsheets that have multiple sheets (specifically, editing the non-default sheets).
It’s weird that I obsessively check/open email … yet hate dealing with physical mail more than just about anything.
Haha: “Friends, family, religion. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.” - Mr.Burns (via @vikasreddy)
Kind of awesome that my gf has shifts on Sat/Sun - I can work guilt-free while she’s gone. Also kind of sad that I’m happy about that.
Loving the fast & furious tech support from the @devver guys. Rails devs: if you wanna run your tests fast check out devver.net (via @l4rk)
Finally saw “Up” last night. I was fairly disappointed (compared to other Pixar movies). OK, but far from great.
Episode 7 of the “The Founders” http://vimeo.com/5595478 - great work @andrewhyde
Slept terribly last night on account of my apartment being way too hot.
Top 100 Punk Albums - The Definitive list - Music... →
Sub-processes in Ruby, part 2: http://ping.fm/dev89 (via @avdi)
Whoa, a hallucination how-to. The brain is so weird. http://imgur.com/Nw1AS.jpg
Awesome: Jilted Hasbro CEO Laughs Coldly As Scrabble Destroys Another Relationship http://bit.ly/lZGc2
Love this: picture of @barackobama looking at it.usaspending.gov, the new Federal IT dashboard! http://bit.ly/Be08R (via @timoreilly)
Enjoying a coffee while working at the Bookend Cafe. Some days, I’m blown away by how awesome it is to live/work in Boulder.
Had a great time at #futureruby. I enjoyed fascinating conversations and appreciate the feedback I got on @devver.