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Posted on 11/30 at 06:09 PM
I don’t know how I missed this, but apparently earlier this month google added some new themes for people who use their personal pages. I use this service as my homepage and really enjoy having the themes to create atmosphere with, check out the post that tipped me off:
googlesystem.blogspot.com. I should mention, most of these themes actually change appearance based on your local weather after you enter your zip code.
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Posted on 11/28 at 08:35 PM
Courtesy of the #textmate channel on freenode, I found this link: quicklook-and-textmate
I’ve installed both of these and they work great. I’m still amazed that even since the OS 9 days, apple hasn’t modified their clipping system in such a way that I am able to highlight or even edit the text in them. Technically, you can actually select/highlight a portion of text straight from a clipping, but the highlight color is the same as the background, which is useless to me. C’mon apple.
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Posted on 11/28 at 05:55 PM
While running a Rails app in Mongrel today, I noticed some application warnings in my logs. The following 2 lines would appear for every page request.
/etc/irbrc:14: warning: already initialized constant HISTFILE
/etc/irbrc:15: warning: already initialized constant MAXHISTSIZE
After doing some homework, I found a fix!
Posted on 11/26 at 05:09 PM
Over the past few years I’ve begun using an increased number of open source web frameworks in my development projects. Where I used to code everything from scratch, I now depend on these frameworks to build with. Most recently, Ruby on Rails has garnered my attention and I have committed myself to learning it. After 10 years of writing mostly procedural PHP code (followed by 2 years of OOP PHP) ... I feel I am finally in Programmer’s heaven.
Posted on 10/10 at 03:49 PM
I wrote this library as a means of knowing which Javascripts to load in my view for a given controller/method. My sites often use a common array of jquery libraries, but occasionally I need to use a special JS script on a certain page, say ... for table sorting or something.
Posted on 07/14 at 12:19 PM
I’m posting this here as reference for both myself and anyone else that it might benefit. Its a plan of attack I documented on CodeIgniter’s community forums in order to host multiple sites off a single install base .. its primarily intended to help share code across applications.
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Posted on 07/08 at 12:18 PM
I created this image a while ago for my buddy Monty using some pictures he’d sent me of his new baby, Andy. I’m posting it here so that our other friends can see it as well. (created with a neat little app called Comic Life)
Posted on 06/10 at 12:17 PM
At work, I’m shifting gears and readying to write v2.0 of our web software. Where in the past I have always worked alone, we are now hiring a part time developer to take up some of the slack.
This was incentive for me to adopt new open source frameworks to build on this time around, intsead of coding everything from scratch as I usually do. I’m quite happy with the software we chose. After having spent some time with each package, I can’t recommend them enough. Here’s a list of what we ended up with.
Posted on 06/09 at 12:17 PM
I’m impressed. I updated my copy of Parallels yesterday and WindowsXP now runs at native speed (without a reboot) on my quad core Mac Pro. XP also uses accelerated graphics now ... *drool* ... The last thing on my wish-list is for Parallels to allow XP to run off multiple processors. Good news: I saw an optimistic post yesterday from an admin on their forums ....
Posted on 05/18 at 12:17 PM
I did some searching today on an issue I was having with Apple’s Mail program.
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I can usually be found lounging on irc.freenode.net while I work, on the following channels: #fauna, #github, #hello-heroku, #jquery, #passenger, #ruby, #rubyonrails, #slicehost, #sproutcore, #textmate, #werenot.