Has comedy changed as a result of the internet?
Let’s think about how comedy has changed since we’ve started consuming digital video on the internet. Prior to the Internet, comedy media was consumed primarily through movies and television. However,...
View ArticleBest Music of 2006: My picks
1) Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics For the second time this decade, the Lips have nailed it. While the first song (“Yeah, Yeah, Yeah“) annoys the hell out of me, the rest of the record is an...
View ArticleHonolulu Hacker’s Guide to Lite Weight Backpacking
Based on some backpacking experience over the years, I’ve come up with this list of ways to reduce the weight of your pack. Read and Learn. Toilet Paper: Anyone who has moved before knows one thing:...
View ArticleUsing TinyTDS to connect to SQL Server with Ruby on Rails 3 (for Mac OSX)
Note: please see comments by Ken Collins (metaskills.net) at the bottom of this entry. He mentions a better way to do this without even installing FreeTDS. You will need FreeTDS to connect to MSSQL...
View ArticleUsing Rails 3 helpers and routes in the console or a rake task
To use a Rails 3 helper in the console If this is your helper: module ItemsHelper def custom_item_display(item) item.to_s end end And you have a route that looks like this: resources :items On the...
View ArticleOverride behavior of “rake spec” task
Basically, I have a bunch of folders in my spec directory for a rails project: spec/acceptance spec/controllers spec/fixtures spec/helpers spec/javascripts spec/lib spec/mailers spec/models...
View ArticleCommon Accurev Command Line commands and their git/svn counter parts
I’m using Accurev for a new project, thought I’d throw up a blog post of the commands that I use most commonly: Make a new workspace, similar to ‘git clone’ or ‘svn co’: accurev mkws -w workspacename...
View ArticleMigrating my heroku/postgres project to Jruby
A little inspired by all the JRuby buzz, I thought I’d take an existing rails app that I have running on heroku and migrate it to Jruby. I wanted to test how easy/hard it would be: I made a branch of...
View ArticleRuby on Rails Class in Hawaii, October 3rd
I’m teaching an Intro Ruby on Rails Class at University of Hawaii’s Pacific New Media. Hope you can make it, here’s the flyer. Ruby on Rails Class Flyer
View ArticleMonk Seal Software, up and running
For those of you that don’t know, I’m rebranding under Monk Seal Software. New blog to come soon.
View ArticleHas comedy changed as a result of the internet?
Let’s think about how comedy has changed since we’ve started consuming digital video on the internet. Prior to the Internet, comedy media was consumed primarily through movies and television. However,...
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Best Music of 2006: My picks
1) Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics For the second time this decade, the Lips have nailed it. While the first song (“Yeah, Yeah, Yeah“) annoys the hell out of me, the rest of the record is an...
View ArticleHonolulu Hacker’s Guide to Lite Weight Backpacking
Based on some backpacking experience over the years, I’ve come up with this list of ways to reduce the weight of your pack. Read and Learn. Toilet Paper: Anyone who has moved before knows one thing:...
View ArticleUsing TinyTDS to connect to SQL Server with Ruby on Rails 3 (for Mac OSX)
Note: please see comments by Ken Collins (metaskills.net) at the bottom of this entry. He mentions a better way to do this without even installing FreeTDS. You will need FreeTDS to connect to MSSQL...
View ArticleUsing Rails 3 helpers and routes in the console or a rake task
To use a Rails 3 helper in the console If this is your helper: module ItemsHelper def custom_item_display(item) item.to_s end end And you have a route that looks like this: resources :items On the...
View ArticleOverride behavior of “rake spec” task
Basically, I have a bunch of folders in my spec directory for a rails project: spec/acceptance spec/controllers spec/fixtures spec/helpers spec/javascripts spec/lib spec/mailers spec/models...
View ArticleCommon Accurev Command Line commands and their git/svn counter parts
I’m using Accurev for a new project, thought I’d throw up a blog post of the commands that I use most commonly: Make a new workspace, similar to ‘git clone’ or ‘svn co’: accurev mkws -w workspacename...
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Migrating my heroku/postgres project to Jruby
A little inspired by all the JRuby buzz, I thought I’d take an existing rails app that I have running on heroku and migrate it to Jruby. I wanted to test how easy/hard it would be: I made a branch of...
View ArticleRuby on Rails Class in Hawaii, October 3rd
I’m teaching an Intro Ruby on Rails Class at University of Hawaii’s Pacific New Media. Hope you can make it, here’s the flyer. Ruby on Rails Class Flyer
View ArticleMonk Seal Software, up and running
For those of you that don’t know, I’m rebranding under Monk Seal Software. New blog to come soon.
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