Steve Jobs 1955-2011
I saw this photo of Steve Jobs today, while reading the tweet stream after the announcement of his passing: I’m not afraid to say I found myself getting a little emotional… but emotional in the same...
View ArticleA SublimeText2 Project File for Rails Projects
The fuzzy finder in SublimeText2 is great, but if you’ve added a rails folder to your project you may see a bunch of cruft in the result list most likely due to cache files. Here’s a generic rails...
View ArticleIGF Pirate Kart Pack 1
If you’re unfamiliar with the IGF Pirate kart, it’s a neat collection of over 300 indie video games: a FREE and LEGAL compilation of over 300 games by over 100 developers! It was put together at the...
View ArticleShapeEditor – Create and Export Shapes for MultistrokeGestureRecognizer
Nicolò Zereik and Luca Roverelli put together a neat tool for creating the JSON template files for the MultistrokeGestureRecognizer library: ShapeEditor It’s a small JAVA app — check it out if you’re...
View ArticleThe Perfect Logrotate Config
One of the first things I do when setting up a new server somewhere is get all those damn log files rotating. Here’s the logrotate.conf block I use: in /etc/logrotate.conf /path/to/any/log/file/*.log {...
View ArticleForging Forgecraft Part 1: Introduction
For the past few months I’ve been hacking away at a game partly, well, to make a game, and partly to play with a bunch of web technologies I’ve been interested in. That game is Forgecraft! Check it out...
View ArticleForging Forgecraft: A Hybrid SQL MongoDB Data Solution
Forgecraft is a game currently in development using Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, and all sorts of HTML5 buzzwords. Read an introduction here, and play the demo here. One of my primary goals while...
View ArticleForging Forgecraft: Integrating CSS3 Transitions with Javascript
Forgecraft is a game currently in development using Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, and all sorts of HTML5 buzzwords. Read an introduction here, and play the demo here. With Forgecraft, and any game...
View ArticleSPDY and Its Relation to WebSockets
When SPDY was first announced I didn’t pay too much attention as history has shown it takes years before these things become widely adopted, if ever. Recently though, Twitter launched support for the...
View ArticleSolitude
I’ve recently returned from a trip to Alaska (highly recommended!) and there’s one thing that I keep returning to in my thoughts, and I think it’s something that’s going to stick with me. As you know...
View ArticleDevice Domains
Up until recently I’ve tried to keep my 3 main computing devices (Macbook, iPhone, iPad) all capable of doing the same things. I installed twitter, feed reader, and even Kindle apps on the laptop, and...
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