January 2012
2 posts
The Garden of the Night
Our protagonist starts in the middle of an ocean on a small sail boat. He doesn’t know how he got there, but he knows he’s alone.
Half starved, the cold wind cuts into him. He takes down his sail and uses it as a blanket. Attaching his lamp to the mast, the blackness of his surroundings are held at bay. For now. Finding a small amount of comfort he falls into an uneasy sleep.
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Using a locally developed rubygem with Bundler
I was working with the Embedly API earlier on and thought I’d extract my code into a rubygem (released as tinyembedly, source on github). Preparing the gem was pretty straightforward (thanks to New gem with bundler) however getting the gem back into the ‘host’ application was proving difficult.
The problem I was trying to solve: I wanted to test my gem locally before pushing it...
December 2011
1 post
Using a Steelseries Kinzu on a Mac (OSX Lion)
This blog post is for all of the mac (Lion) owners who are given (or who buy themselves) a Steelseries Kinzu mouse at Christmas. This writeup may be of use to owners of other gaming mice (with Windows only driver software).
I wanted a mouse for gaming. Being impatient, I headed to the local shops and had a look about. I popped into PC World / Currys but left disappointed with the service [1]....
January 2011
1 post
Rof playing with his new giant tennis ball. Thanks...
November 2010
2 posts
Rails 2.3.9 weirdness in eager loading an ordered...
Snappy title, eh.
I ran into this bug while trying to update an app to 2.3.9. I know of a workaround but I’m struggling to write a test that reproduces it in the AR source. So until I get around to doing that, heres the weirdness:
class Job < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :job_memberships, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :users, :through => :job_memberships, :order =>...
October 2010
1 post
1 tag
Searching vs Knowing
When I first moved from Textmate to
Vim I really missed Command-T; the file finder-opener. At first I tried FuzzyFinder, made popular by Jamis Buck but couldn’t get comfortable with it.
I also missed the project drawer, an ideal way to browse a tree. I gave Nerdtree a shot but again, it just didn’t mesh.
The problem I was having was trying to ease myself into vim with processes...
September 2010
1 post
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June 2010
3 posts
HTML5 enabling script →
Apigee | Free API Analytics and Management →
This sounds pretty interesting, though it’s another point of failure for your app. That said, they claim high-availability
Placehold.it - Quick and simple image placeholders →
This is a great idea — i wonder if you could do this purely client side (no remote calls) with a sprinkling of JS with canvas?
May 2010
13 posts
Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii →
Ancient, but still incredibly cool.
Explaining the OAuth Session Fixation Attack «... →
Great writeup on what the oauth session fixation attack actually is
Creating an iPhone Application →
Camera
Servo Shop →
much cheaper than maplins and who know, they may actually want to buy them!
kenmayer.mp - Getting HolyGrail to work with RSpec... →
High Scalability - High Scalability - 7 Lessons... →
Implicit user creation with Authlogic and... →
An interesting approach to avoid users having to create an account in the client application, when they already have an account on the ‘server’
So you need a font? →
Best of 2010 | Ultra Culture | The UK's Greatest... →
Free Online Game - Robot Unicorn Attack from Adult... →
This is the most amazing game I’ve ever played
Uniform - Sexy forms with jQuery →
Sexy forms with jQuery. POTENTIALLY UGLY forms with jQuery! ;)
API Directory - ProgrammableWeb →
Prepping for 10% time!
Meet Twiggy, our new mobile widget | Carsonified →
April 2010
19 posts
mynyml's holygrail at master - GitHub →
Need to try this out at some point
textorize: Pristine font rendering for the web →
Super useful for making quick header graphics for elementalise
How To Upgrade In iTunes | iPhone News, Help and... →
How to upgrade your iPhone (retaining Jailbreak) — apparently!
Ben Alman » Run jQuery Code Bookmarklet » Generate →
Inspired, breaking down the barriers of bookmarklet making by keeping it familiar (jquery!)
How to control vi (and vim) colors | vi vim color... →
jsPlumb demo →
Very cool tech. Not sure how it works, but it works nicely!
Pomodoro | Pomodoro →
Apparently this helps you time how long small German dogs take to do something. ChrisO likes and he’s not often wrong.
Instants! Collection →
BEST LINK EVER
A wireframe kit for Google Drawings and 5 reasons... →
drnic's rbiphonetest at master - GitHub →
Plugins | jQuery Plugins →
Best Online Collaboration Tools 2009 - Robin... →
Good way to show off a product
Reading: [PS3] Owner Refunded (Without Return) for... →
Partial refund offered for Sony removing advertised features from the PS3. European Legislation cited..
General election 2010: How powerful is your... →
Mmm data! Nom nom nom.
Gamasutra - Features - Designing AI Algorithms For... →
Play TV (PS3):Amazon:PC & Video Games →
Not freeview HD :(
Offline Web Applications - SQL →
WebKit HTML 5 SQL Storage Notes Demo →
HTML 5 SQL storage test site (safari only)
ASCIIcasts - Recent Episodes →
Great idea!
March 2010
10 posts
mikel's mail at master - GitHub →
Haml/Sass 3 Beta Released! : Nex3 →
Gimme an S! Gimme an A! Gimme an S! Gimme an S! Whats it spell!
Touching and Gesturing on the iPhone | SitePen... →
Early steps into mobile device events — this is pretty heavily influenced by the iPhone, but surely other phones share the touch events (if not the gesture events)
Ultimate Black Belt Test ’11: Greensboro, AL →
Spotted by @og2t, really interesting background image approach
The Formula • subblue →
OU Prospectus Request →
Science!
Turn off that dock unread count - (37signals) →