The Two Character Config Hack That Changed my Bashing Life
20 Mar 2011
Little conveniences can make big differences. I recently added two characters to my Bash configuration that made a profound affect on my everyday computer use.
20 Mar 2011
Little conveniences can make big differences. I recently added two characters to my Bash configuration that made a profound affect on my everyday computer use.
25 Feb 2011
This post isn't trying to sell you on screen. There are umpteen sites out there which do that. Instead, I'd like to share with you how I've engineered my setup such that it's a joy to use.
31 Jan 2011
Sprinkle this sugary function on top of your jQuery for a little syntactic delight.
30 Jan 2011
I've been listening to tech-related podcasts since the birth of the medium. I recently realized that I've never shared the shows that I think are great. So, here they are (in no particular order).
26 Jan 2011
Heroku does not expose the current database size of your application via their web interface or command-line tool, but its pretty easy to get at.
14 Jan 2011
Context switching: computers are great at it, humans suck at it. Every time we developers lose the context of our current task we are forced to waste precious time getting back...
27 Dec 2010
Working with JavaScript inside of a WebKit WebView can be tricky because bare-bone WebViews don't ship with the handy, dandy developer console that is available in Safari and Chrome. In this post, I outline how to get your JavaScript console.logs to show up in Xcode's Debugger Console using NSLog.
15 Dec 2010
In which I pay respect to the many open source libraries we used as foundation for Grooveshark's new web-based player.
09 Dec 2010
The old TMail gem used in Rails allowed directly importing parsed attachments into Paperclip. The new Mail gem works differently, but we can make them play nice.
01 Dec 2010
I've wasted many hours of my life trying different task management applications and have never found anything effective enough to stick with. Finally, I've found a solution that is simple and effective. It Just Works®. I think it's awesome. Maybe you will too.