So yeah, I’ve not posted much here of late, and I think I’m going to try experimenting a little bit with the format. I’ve got an account over on tumblr and I like the concept of it, but it has a serious problem with the whole “saving new posts” thing that makes me somewhat reluctant [...]
Read more →I downloaded it, fell in love with it, and decided it wasn’t programming that I was burned out on; it was programming in uninspired programming languages. —Tobias Lütke on Ruby on Rails versus Java
Read more →I already did a 2009 retrospective post, so now I suppose I’ll do a rambling 2010 post to go with it. None of these should be construed as New Year’s resolutions, just stuff that I feel I need to work on. If anything, this post is more for my benefit than any else’s since it [...]
Read more →Seeing as it’s a new year and all, I guess I can do a year-in-review post. 2009 had a few high points, but on the whole, it wasn’t a particularly exciting or memorable year for me. Family: My sister got married in May and I had the honor of participating in the wedding. Specifically, since [...]
Read more →Now that I’ve come down off my hateorade-induced Droid rant from last night, I’d like to offer some further thoughts about the Droid. On the whole, I have to say my experience with it was very negative and I honestly cannot recommend buying one at this time. As a disclaimer, I’ve talked to a number [...]
Read more →I’d been watching Verizon’s Droid with a certain amount of interest of interest of late, and after seeing many favorable reviews and being suitably impressed with my coworker’s new Droid, I jumped from an iPhone 3G to a new Motorola Droid. What the hell was I thinking? Now, in all fairness, it’s possible that I [...]
Read more →One of the less obvious things you can do with jQuery is use the $(element).load() function to populate often-repeated static content. A client gave us a design that used a pair of master page templates as well as a couple of static HTML files, all of which had an element that had the same standard [...]
Read more →I’ve just finished migrating my web site over from Site5 to Dreamhost. I’ve been very happy with Site5, but Dreamhost has a nicer control panel (IMHO) and has, as far as I can tell, much better Ruby on Rails support — they support Passenger, which makes deploying Rails applications a lot easier. If you’re seeing [...]
Read more →I installed Firefox 3.1b2 on my MacBook this evening to a pleasant surprise — it now supports a variety of multi-touch trackpad gestures as seen here. I remapped two of them slightly, however — three finger swipe to scroll to the top/bottom of the page wasn’t useful for me, and I find the twist gesture [...]
Read more →Haven’t posted much for a while aside from my automated Twitter updates, which don’t really count, so here’s a nice new post. First up, technology. Because I am apparently a consumer whore or something, I’ve acquired some new tech recently. As those few of you who follow my Twitter digest may have noticed, I’ve switched [...]
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