Archive | April, 2009

30 Apr

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29 Apr

  • playoff basketball and a little javascript work… #
  • god, I wish this full calendar jQuery plugin existed back when I was working on a Calendar-heavy Rental site – http://bit.ly/ZD19O #
  • took me a while but finally found a rock solid, lightweight PHP SQS script. Thanks debuggable! http://bit.ly/17MRzV #php #sqs #
  • Interesting that wordpress.com is using erlang to scale #
  • guess it’s Rackspace fanboy day – they’re hiring full time to work on Drizzle, a cloud DB branched from MySQL. Awesome! http://bit.ly/11un72 #
  • @ohmypuddin oh right, awesome! They are kicking ass, just moved a bunch of my servers over to Rackspace’s Slicehost. in reply to ohmypuddin #
  • damnit, I liked it when the clear best option for cloud computing was AWS… now Rackspace Mosso is looking really competitive. Options! #
  • eclectic, not bad — Spenking: Vietnam Malaria Nostalgia http://dora.fm/1h #dora #
  • never really listened to Dinosaur Jr. but this rocks — Dinosaur Jr.: Pick Me Up http://dora.fm/Ad #dora #
  • @ohmypuddin give dora.fm a try if you haven’t already. Pandora + Twitter in reply to ohmypuddin #

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28 Apr

  • Just heard the sunbears, good stuff. Awesome band name #
  • At the mates of state concert in Dallas. Granada theatre #
  • kick ass song — Muse: Map Of Your Head http://dora.fm/2f #dora #
  • The Decemberists radio on Pandora has played 5 Elliot Smith songs to every Decemberists song… about to start “thumbs down”ing him #
  • forgot i spilled coffee on my left earbud a while ago. momentarily thought i had lost half my hearing in my left ear #
  • cool, google logo is in Morse Code today, must be Samuel Morse’ birthday #
  • wishing I was at #erlangfactory for the CouchDB University #

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27 Apr

  • spending some quality time with my good budy, Maker’s Mark #
  • any way to force absolutely everything into tabs in the same window on Safari? #
  • My favorite: He never says anything tastes like chicken. Even chicken. #themostinterestingmanintheworld #
  • @mattmillr haha yeah, just heard it in the car. Most of the others stunk, but that one made me laugh in reply to mattmillr #
  • He doesn’t stick with flour or corn tortillas, but freely switches between the two. #themostinterestingmanintheworld #
  • it comes as no surprise that Microsoft’s Live ID customization form is broken in all browsers except IE7 (yes, even IE8 is broken!) #
  • new 5 year plan: make enough money before Starcraft 2 comes out to float for 5 solid years of play time. #
  • have to get dirty with Windows Live ID API… wish I could just use facebook connect or something… #
  • spent a couple hours getting Erlang R13B up and running, unfortunately have to get to work now and can’t play with it. #

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26 Apr

  • very interesting discussion going on that I just stumbled upon regarding how to approach large scale jQuery projects http://bit.ly/bjUPO #
  • the background music to the nitrogen screencasts is nice. have to remember to do this if I ever do a screencast. http://bit.ly/bfGc9 #
  • spending some quality time with Nitrogen web framework http://nitrogenproject.com #
  • find myself using Safari 4 beta over Firefox for normal browsing. the speed just makes all the difference #
  • good day for sports fans – NFL draft, Mavs Spurs. #
  • Grabbing some tacos at local taco stand #
  • digging the new sites for processing.js and sizzle.js http://processingjs.org http://sizzlejs.com #
  • overcast Saturday, good for coffee and coding. to go into the office or not to go into the office, that is the questions #

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25 Apr

  • does anyone know of a way to completely close a macbook pro but still have it active, i.e. with external monitor? #
  • dropbox is the perfect place to put a .vimrc file #stuffinmydropbox #
  • http://getdropbox.com is the perfect example of simple, clean, friendly UI design. love it! #
  • just re-activated, played for 5 mins, and cancelled my World of Warcraft account. 4th time in 4 months. need another way to wind down! #
  • Jesus H. Christ, this an amazing 3d tool. Who is this guy and what is this game, “Love”? http://tinyurl.com/d9zvws (via @dalmaer) #
  • just signed up at wantz.it, but now I can’t think of anything I want… #
  • @mattweg I agree! I wish google profiles would adopt the gravatar system and provide this built into gmail in reply to mattweg #
  • Love this concept by @hivelogic, I subscribe to this methodology of zen through purging crap around the house http://bit.ly/23tWs #
  • RT “AIR apps are like modern day Java applets… sure, they run on every platform. But they also suck on every platform.” http://tr.im/jDhn #
  • gravatars in gmail? cool http://bit.ly/B4Xjv #
  • Trying out @Heroku – my existing git repo has the rails app as a subdirectory, how can I push to heroku remote? #
  • @snookca
    1. Stop breathin’
    2. Stop breathin’
    3. Breathin’ for me now
    “Stop breathin” by Pavement
    #songswithinstructions in reply to snookca #
  • ROFL, a PHP framework in 140 characters: http://twitto.org/ #
  • Just spent some time re-reading most of the Perry Bible Fellowship comics… never stale: http://pbfcomics.com #

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24 Apr

  • just spent 30 mins fixing a git merge conflict… hate that #
  • just started using pinky to type curly braces, now it is tired. also next 50 tweets will be about my keyboard usage. who’s excited? #
  • haha, HTML5 zing! “There we go, jQuery.com is now paid for through 2018. It’ll expire about the time HTML 5 is ready. (via @jeresig)” #

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23 Apr

  • really interested in this new fangled MXHR by the Digg crew. The biggest plus? serverside control of what renders first. http://bit.ly/dFCE7 #
  • made spinach lentil curry tonight #
  • CouchDB: perform like a pr0n star. Hilarious, informative. http://bit.ly/oQ2T8 #
  • hate it when I lose my cursor in #vim but I don’t like current-line highlighting. #
  • rofl, love the “Back Pat” voting system on tweetingtoohard.com #tth #
  • javascript generating PDFs? cool. Next step is a javascript based video codec… http://bit.ly/i1Rcd #
  • I find myself relying more and more on runtime bindModel() rather than permanent relationships. bad habit? *feels* more efficient #cakephp #
  • forgot link in last tweet http://bit.ly/3w6P20 #
  • rofl, huge pile of trash left by the first Earth Day rally on the Mall in D.C. classic. #
  • one of my favorite epics, ASoiF, is becoming an HBO series! lets hope it does’t go the way of Carnivale or Rome http://bit.ly/5JMaA #
  • @codylindley they appear in the ‘arguments’ function property in reply to codylindley #
  • finally finished setting up google apps hosted email for a bunch of my old domain-specific emails. gmail++ http://google.com/a #
  • @mattweg yeah, using CloudFront now for a similarly “webroot” heavy #cakephp app. works very well, and helps that our entire stack is on AWS in reply to mattweg #

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22 Apr

  • What does it say about me that I would definitely watch this Starcraft 2 battle and commentary on TV http://bit.ly/Rigaw #
  • Why on earth would World of Warcraft, with a kajillion monthly subscribers, sell ads on their homepage? http://bit.ly/69ie6 #
  • i think @cohabitat should one-up @conjunctured with a bigger, shinier espresso machine! and I will reap the benefits muahahahha #
  • RT Family Guy, The Office, and My Boys. I love TBS. (via @jenn320) #
  • Every time I see Ajax Rain, as in ajaxrain.com, I think Chocolate Rain… http://bit.ly/bJVqB #
  • just verified my name to Google. didn’t know you could verify your name? me neither until today: http://bit.ly/cSvin #
  • the stats on JavascriptDB look too good to be true. wish I had time to install and play with Perservere http://bit.ly/VK3IS #
  • Found a recipe fire chipotle’s butter cilantro rice! #
  • pretty excited about Google’s O3D though honestly I don’t know any of the 3D graphics theory necessary to use the API for anything, haha #
  • cool, last project still on legacy SVN repo is now on github. can finally move from git+svn to full on git 24/7 #
  • cool Iron and Wine cover of Flaming Lips’ — Iron & Wine: Waitin’ For A Superman (Live) http://bit.ly/EN7r4 #dora #
  • damn, dora.fm’s tweet interface stopped working… wanted to tweet about an Iron and Wine song. guess I just did, heh #dora #
  • Microsoft VEMap control crashing IE8… irony? #
  • haven’t heard this Ben Folds stuff before. Like. — Ben Folds: In Between Days http://bit.ly/5M8uN #dora #
  • @gushin tried synergy? will get rid of the two keyboards, mice and let you control both computers from the same set. http://bit.ly/9n8tN in reply to gushin #
  • one of my favorite radiohead songs — Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong http://bit.ly/eBesx #dora #
  • just realized the P2 blog theme has ‘j’ ‘k’ nav keyboard shortcuts for posts similar to google reader. love this theme! #
  • nothing better than fresh coffee and a nice list of articles in google reader to go through in the morning. #
  • just got into the office #

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21 Apr

  • coding while watching playoff basketball. wishing there was an acts_as_audited for @cakephp – is there? #
  • one of my fav decemberists songs — The Decemberists: Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) http://bit.ly/1atOf8 #dora #
  • Pandora, Twitter and Bit.ly in one? uh yes, want that. http://dora.fm/ #
  • forgot how helpful a monitor in portrait mode is for a web developer. love having site and firebug vertically stacked. #
  • @gushin it’s mstand rain stand. Love em, have 2 of them – http://bit.ly/teUuk in reply to gushin #
  • Amy’s Mexican Casserole Bowl ++ #
  • got my Mac fanboy setup at the office. getting used to this tiny keyboard http://bit.ly/17s6du #
  • http://bit.ly/12z3El Tweetie bookmarklet, hit Command + Option + S to auto-shorten URLs #
  • not sure what to think of Oracle acquisition of Sun. I don’t think it will affect MySQL at all, which is all I care about. #
  • checking out Tweetie for Mac – love the design. They got the vertical gutter concept working well #
  • The P2 theme by the automattic guys is killer, just installed it and have a few tweaks I want to make http://bit.ly/nZTV0 #

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