August 2011
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Aug 31st
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Aug 29th
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“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”
– Henry Ford (One of several variations.)
Aug 28th
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“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aug 22nd
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Google and Wolfram Alpha: Two Examples
Today I had two questions that I plugged into Google and Wolfram Alpha: How many seconds are in two weeks? I wanted to extend my CouchDB login on my local computer so I wouldn’t have to worry about timing out. Since it’s in seconds, I needed to convert my desired time to seconds. I used the query “two weeks in seconds”. First I tried Wolfram Alpha. It gave me the answer...
Aug 21st
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Are you a good programmer? →
Aug 20th
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HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack →
Aug 20th
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jquery.tmpl.js →
The source of the new jQuery.tmpl() plugin.
Aug 18th
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Pomodoro Idea
Don’t cancel pomodoros, rate ‘em! Wanted: a pomodoro log with ratings and graphs. (BTW do cancel pomodoros that are really interrupted, not ones that have [partially] fallen victim to distraction.)
Aug 18th
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Building Windows 8 →
My version: How do I build Windows 8? Windows 8 isn’t an open source project, so you can’t.
Aug 15th
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on rvm's *cd* script
I’ve seen a lot of misinformation and missing facts in the discussion about rvm’s cd script, which overrides the shell’s cd and allows it to pass through, so I’m posting this to clear the air a bit. Only one of a dozen or so posts I’ve read about raising concern with it cited a concrete problem with it. It was also for an earlier version of rvm, and it may already be...
Aug 13th
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Aug 11th
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Aug 11th
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Ten Best Dr. Steve Brule Moments from Tim and Eric... →
Aug 11th
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Aug 11th
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Aug 11th
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Node Knockout: Countdown to KO #1: How to Install... →
Nice. I didn’t know about that Ubuntu package server. Also, another option for Windows users is to use VirtualBox to get an Ubuntu virtual machine. It’s free and is a much more standard node.js environment than cygwin. nodeknockout: This is the 1st in series of posts leading up to the second annual Node.js Knockout about how to use node.js. This post covers how to install node on...
Aug 10th
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Aug 6th
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Aug 5th
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Aug 5th
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Aug 5th
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two quick git tips
Two things I learned today: If you’re committing files in a directory on a server, and getting permission errors, just change the owner of the .git directory to the account making the commits. I did chown -R batkin:staff. Changing the permissions of the other files can have unwanted side effects, so I prefer to do them only as needed. To stage all files deleted outside of git on the...
Aug 5th
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Aug 3rd
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Clever Solution. →
Aug 1st