June 2010
25 posts
Dahlia Bock: apprenticeship patterns →
Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman by Dave Hoover & Adewale Oshineye
There are some books that I wish were available 4 years ago when I first…
The Wafflesicle Maker Has Changed Breakfast... →
Forget everything you ever thought you knew about waffles. Because Lolly, a waffle maker that produces 9.4-inch waffle cones on a stick, has changed everything. Can I interest you…
Comic: The Sound Of A Klaxon →
New Comic: The Sound Of A Klaxon
Five steps to live by Bryan Liles →
I’m all about organized confusion. So through all the chaos, over the years, I’ve come up with five rules to life. Since I haven’t shared anything in a while, I thought I would throw this…
MySpace's Performance Tracker →
MySpace’s Performance Tracker MySpace’s Performance Tracker is a browser plugin that help developers to improve their code performance by capturing and measuring possible bottlenecks on…
Loved →
I am now to the point where I cringe when I see a dialog box pop up in a game. Usually the writing is mediocre at best, your choices are meaningless and there’s just mountains and mountains of text…
That Glass Infection Is Spreading Fast →
Submitted by: Baud via Submit a Kludge!
I knew that massage parlor down the street was a hussy. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer Thadius says, “People who live in stone houses…
Client: “We want out home page to be very... →
Client: “We want out home page to be very minimalistic. We like lots of white space, and only the most important elements. It should look like Google - basically, a logo and one or two other…
That Glass Infection Is Spreading Fast →
Submitted by: Baud via Submit a Kludge!
I knew that massage parlor down the street was a hussy. – Ms. Fix-It
Finally, a fluid Hicksdesign →
I’ve been wanting a fluid layout on this site for about 5 years. I had a brief redesign back in 2005 where I flirted with it for a few months, but it was soon switched back to fixed as I couldn’t…
Product Fail Spree →
Business and Economy - Business - United States - Shopping - Counties
Web performance Metrics 101 →
This talk by Sean and Alistair is one of the talks I couldn’t attend today due to conflicts, but I’m glad the slides are already up.
Performance measurement is often the starting point for most web…
Product Fail Spree →
Business and Economy - Business - Clothing - Police - Hospital
Comic: Redolent With Spices →
New Comic: Redolent With Spices
Installing an Ubuntu 10.04 Server Under VirtualBox →
When installing Ubuntu 10.04 Server as a VirtualBox VM, don’t use the
“Install Minimal Virtual Machine” option in the installer options. Strangely, that causes installing it as a VM to fail…
#632; A Dramatic Turnover in Management →
Information Architect →
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I’ve got a sizable commute, so I’ve ... →
I’ve got a sizable commute, so I’ve taken to downloading conference videos and converting to MP3 to play in the car. Most work reasonably well as speech-only, I’m finding. In hopes of helping…
sexy_scopes: Syntactic sugar for ActiveRecord 3.0... →
http://github.com/samleb/sexy_scopes
sexy_scope is a small wrapper around Arel::Attribute that adds a little syntactic sugar when creating scopes in ActiveRecord. It adds an attribute class…
Glyph – A Ruby-Powered Document Authoring... →
http://www.h3rald.com/glyph/
I’ve been writing technical documents for a living for the past four years, and I can tell you: there is no easy way to go about it. I love Textile and Markdown. When…
Introducing Programmer Puzzlers →
Just a quick note to let you know about the launch of Programmer Puzzlers, a new site with logic, coding and math puzzles designed for programmers. Stretch your mind, have fun, challenge…
The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit... →
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The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything
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(Confused? Read Detecting HTML5 Features for a conceptual…
Client: “That’s way too much money to charge for... →
Client: “That’s way too much money to charge for an email campaign. It’s not hard to put a few graphics in an email.” Me: “I charge based off of my regular hourly rate and that’s how long it will…
Creating a new Rails 3 Application with Mongoid,... →
This article will work through creating a new Rails 3 application ready to start
building a site using Mongoid, and testing it with
Cucumber and RSpec. I’m going to assume you’re familiar…
I'm Blogging Again →
While this Tumblr will continue to be populated by my shared items from Google Reader, I’m doing long form blogging at blog.blankpad.net now. You can either subscribe to that, or stay here, since anything I post there will appear here as well, through the magic of RSS.
May 2010
49 posts
May 23, 2010 →
Wedding Picture Fail →
Installing Ganeti on Gentoo →
The Lone Sysadmin: If You Don’t Like Change… →
Infrastructures →
317 – Blessed are the pawn in spirit →
#624; The Persistence of Work →
Ex-Panera Bread CEO Opens Commie Not-For-Profit... →
“Please be sure to print the cover and the table... →
As told by an old school film editor, from the... →
Having My Say – At You →
Gurus, Rockstars and Ninjas, Oh my! →
Jigsaw Puzzle Fail →
Just Jam It Right In There And Select Premium →
Lock Your Mac in a Keystroke [Timesavers] →
Diaspora's curse →
Creating a scalable virtualization cluster with... →
The Scatology of Agile Architecture →
Coalition cabinet split over tea and biscuits →
Coalition cabinet split over tea and biscuits →
“Could you make the page more fun? You, know, more... →
A word is worth 884 pictures →
Language Detection →
5/12/2010 - Epic Tales →
Me: Hi. I was wondering if you received the... →