April 2010
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March 2010
2 posts
Dock on the Right
stevenf:
I am one of those Dock-on-the-right weirdos and I hate that my desktop icons gradually drift out of alignment around the screen all day due to the changing size of the Dock. So I spent 30 seconds making cleanupd
Download it, customize the timeout if you like. Do a release build (or use the pre-compiled binary in builds). Copy it into /usr/local/bin. Run it backgrounded from the...
February 2010
2 posts
Logistics
David Benoit (presumably not the pianist) of the New York Times writing about Ray LaHood’s congressional testimony about the Toyota recall:
Testifying before the House appropriations committee, Mr. LaHood was asked what advice he would give to owners of Toyotas subject to the recall. “My advice is, if anybody owns one of these vehicles, stop driving it, take it to the Toyota dealer...
Huh?
Ben Sisario of the New York Times points out:
After a punishing decade for the music industry, the voters of the Recording Academy, the organization that bestows the awards, reversed its recent trend of showering acclaim on modest sellers, sticking instead to the biggest names in entertainment. Right behind Beyoncé, with three awards each, were the Black Eyed Peas, a powerhouse of radio-friendly...
November 2009
1 post
1 tag
Too Many Notifications
I’m thinking that the iPhone OS should have something that supresses notifications when I’m near my desktop computer. This should be possible because the Bluetooth knows when I’m within my desktop’s proximity. This will prevent my desktop machine and iPhone simultaneously alerting me to a meeting invite.
When I’m away from my desktop the alert is warranted, but...
October 2009
3 posts
Audio Quality Matters?
I could probably argue all day about the merits of audio quality and how it’s been generally deteriorating over the years because of radio and compression formats (MP3, etc.) that have become common place.
My friend Ryan Provost sent me this link: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49303980,00.htm
While they have a disclaimer in there indicating that it wasn’t meant to...
foursquare
…thrilled to be even peripherally involved.
http://foursquare.com
Congratulations Naveen, Dennis, and Harry!!!
Date/Time input boxes
Something I’ve wondered for a while:
I could swear that there was a scheduling program that worked exactly like this back in the Mac OS 9 days — when entering a time into a text box if I type a number like ‘4’, assume that I mean PM and not AM. That way you don’t inadvertently make mistakes that schedule meetings across day boundries.
iCal designers?
April 2009
2 posts
March 2009
5 posts
Talking with the Ruby debugger.
Ruby: Hey Serge, there's a problem on line 26.
Sergio: Really? That line looks fine; 'if' something...blah blah blah
Ruby: Nah, it's bogus.
Sergio: What are you talking about?
Ruby: 26! Fix it! Now! (repeat for an hour)
Sergio: Wait a minute, there actually is a problem on line 46 -- but that's not 26! What's up with that?
Ruby: You expect me to know the difference between 26 and 46?
jruby and rake tasks
Anyone out there using JRuby may note that it has some issues with rake. I noticed this in particular with a Rails app that I’m building where I wanted to write some rake tasks that would be run from the command line. You’ll wind up with something like this:
[sergio@localhost m2-cms]$ jruby -S rake load
(in /Users/sergio/Projects/github/m2-cms) rake aborted! uninitialized...
foursquare →
A cool new social networking game written by some really talented individuals.
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