September 2009
70 posts
Ugh - search within Google Groups sucks. Can’t find anything! FAIL. However, searching on regular Google finds threads within GGroups. WIN.
#lazyweb: There a ton of programs that let you transfer songs on one iPod to another. Anyone got one they actually recommend?
Not sure if Firefox 3.5 or Snow Leopard deserves the credit, but my FF no longer eats up obscene amounts of CPU for no reason
August 2009
88 posts
How to Enable Local SMTP (Postfix) on OS-X Leopard... →
Wow. Disney is acquiring Marvel. I guess this means Spider-Man will never, ever, become part of the public domain. http://bit.ly/P4KDF
We’re on InfoQ! http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/08/devver (via @devver)
We’re on @RubyInside! http://bit.ly/jynqR (via @devver)
If I remember correctly, the keymapping worked fine on my keyboard at the office, but 2 keyboard at home don’t work.
I always wondered how Emilio Estevez was related to Charlie Sheen … turns out ‘Charlie Sheen’ and ‘Martin Sheen’ are both screen names.
Until a workaround is found, I’d recommend against upgrading to Snow Leopard if you use Emacs (or rely on Caps Lock==Ctrl in general)
Anyone bought the Vibram FiveFingers for running/hiking? Good/bad experiences? They look ridiculous but I’ve heard good things.
Ugh, Snow Leapard’s modifier key buy is really messing up my ability to write code in Emacs.
Note that Google Gears for Safari doesn’t seem to be working for Snow Leopard yet, either. Firefox seems OK.
So you need to select each keyboard from the pulldown and change settings for each one. Very nice to have things back to normal.
Solved! One of SL’s ‘improvements’ was to change Preferences so keybindings settings are diff for built-in and external keyboards.
Learning the POSE Running method →
YouTube - Pose Drills →
Installed Snow Leopard last night. Biggest issue - modifying cmd keys (i.e. making caps lock==ctrl) doesn’t work for my USB keyboard. Arg.
I learned today that the Ruby library ‘Mocha’ beats the espresso drink on Google results. Almost as shocking as the results for ‘Sinatra’
Star Wars Uncut: Hundreds of people remaking Star Wars, homemade 15-sec clip by homemade 15-sec clip http://bit.ly/3hijDv
Video Delivery Network | ZenVDN →
Ruby's Metaprogramming Toolbox →
Blog post: Unit Testing Filesystem Interaction (with Construct) http://bit.ly/LulqC (via @devver)
Hooray for ‘git reset —soft HEAD^’
Quiz night at George’s!!!
How to Debug Bash Scripts | Ayman Hourieh's Blog →
I can’t believe it.. If you Google for “sinatra” the Ruby library now comes up #1 above all Frank Sinatra stuff :) (via @peterc)
I hope the next OS X release is named “Battle Cat”.
Quotes from someone’s cranky, vulgar dad. Hilarious. http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
Multivariate Testing, A/B Testing and Landing Page... →
enforcer and report_card - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING... →
RubyForge: RSRuby: Project Info →
Trying out the Pomodoro technique http://bit.ly/IcPdv + Concentrate http://bit.ly/tjTEl after hearing good things about both at @bizconf
Played w/ R and ggplot2 on the plane today. It’s awesome and addictive.
Realizing my inbox is filling way too fast. Applying Gmail filters liberally to help.
at @coreyhaines’ talk at @bizconf. Rough paraphrase: the quality of software is the cost of adding new features
problems = Problem.all( :limit => 99 )
problems.each { |problem| assert( !problem.kind_of?(Bitch) ) }
**ALL TESTS PASSED** (via @neogia)
At @bizconf in @AndrewWarner’s session learning about using passion and creativity in building a business
Learning techniques to say ‘no’ at @bizconf … with mixed results
Just had great lunch discussion about dev services moving to the cloud with @l4rk and @mjuneja at @bizconf
Just realized @bizconf has free candy! Must … not … eat … 100 … Reese’s PB cups …
btw, if anyone wants an impromptu live demo of setting up @devver on a project here at @bizconf, grab me. Happy to show anyone the basics ..
Arrived in FL for @bizconf. Oh yeah, that’s what humidity feels like. It’s been awhile.
Headed to BizConf. Excited to meet Rubyists & talk about cloud testing ! Pls come say hi! (here’s what I look like: http://bit.ly/w0vvi)
AA changed my flight w/o telling me. Only reason I knew (2 late) was because of my iPhone. w/o it I’d still be standing here clueless.
Heading to Film on the Rocks soon. There were better movies than Top Gun this summer, but I missed them all. Excited to see Red Rocks.
I’m on Colbert, Better Know A District tonight! (via @jaredpolis)
Business advice & survivor bias - great article, brought to my attention by @avdi http://bit.ly/YOV1M
Being so familiar with Ruby, it’s hard to play w a new lang where I can’t do basic stuff & don’t have the min knowledge to bootstrap myself
If you use Mocha, these settings are super useful. I just added prevent(:stubbing_non_existent_method) to our suite http://bit.ly/2z4Y7k