March 2011
1 post
January 2011
4 posts
Ani – Ghost City of 1001 Churches →
Rest in Peace, Bill Zeller →
Amazing this man felt so compelled to share such an intimately personal struggle. RIP fellow software developer.
Urban Exploration - Undercity.org →
Detroit in ruins | Art and design | The Observer →
December 2010
1 post
August 2010
1 post
Regrets and dying →
mnmal:
zenhabits:
Very instructive — good to read now, before it’s too late!
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
Software Design, In Two Sentences | Code... →
mnmal:
1 - It is more important to reduce the Effort of Maintenance than it is to reduce the Effort of Implementation.
2 - The Effort of Maintenance is proportional to the complexity of the system.
March 2010
4 posts
Bye Bye Flash: Network Graph is now Canvas →
great breakdown on each technology’s strengths
February 2010
7 posts
Barefoot hiring a Rails developer →
We’re looking to add to our team again. If you are passionate about Ruby and Rails, come join me and the team:
http://jobs.barefootproximity.com/2010/01/27/senior-rails-developer/
January 2010
18 posts
Editors - You Don't Know Love remix →
Editors remix with previously mentioned Art Of Noise synth sample around the 3:00 mark. Really good.
On the Street......In Grey & Red, Pitti Uomo →
great snap from Satorialist
Dr. Weil Interview: Geek Health Issues
kevinrose:
Andy Warhol Skateboards By Alien Workshop →
Combines two of my favorite things in life
On the Street....Via Manzoni, Milano →
Another great shot from the Satorialist
8 Beautiful New Brian Viveros Pieces →
awesome paint work
Modern Architecture - All Along the Watchtower (13... →
Amazing! I may dream of this for the next few nights.
Fluorescent Francoise →
Scott Schuman AKA The Sartorialist Video Interview... →
video interview with Scott Schuman, who runs my favorite internet site for many years–The Sartorialist
Tom Ford - Interview Magazine →
Tom Ford is without question one of the mostrecognizable fashion designers America has ever produced. His sleek, hypersexual work at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent was a defining force infashion from the mid-’90s to the mid-’00s. Ford was so successful in this first chosen profession—even launching his own eponymous label after leavingGucci in 2004—that he hardly needed to start over and acquire a...
December 2009
3 posts
September 2009
1 post
Rails and undefined method ‘manage_gems’ →
Going through the update process today on a site built over a year ago. It had an older version of Rails frozen and I was simply trying to update to a newer version of the gem.
Issuing the rake…
July 2009
1 post
Speaking tonight about git and Github →
I’ll be giving a presentation on Git and Github tonight at the local Web professionals meeting.
Details here: http://www.screamingmonkeys.org/
Join us if you are here. We’ll start off on…
April 2009
1 post
Mickey’s receives more awards →
I’ve been fortunate enough to work on the Mickey’s beer site for three years now. And each year the pieces we add on are recognized and awarded. This year was no exception. The Mickey’s site…
March 2009
2 posts
Import Typepad posts into Rails using Rake →
A client at Barefoot wanted to preserve their old Typepad blog posts in the new site we were building for them in Rails. I figured this might be a common task that others go through, so I wrote a
Capistrano deploy of non-Rails sites on Media... →
I was tasked with moving a CakePHP based site from Dreamhost to a Grid Server at MediaTemple, and while doing so thought it would be a good time to get the site into Git and deploy with Capistrano….
February 2009
1 post
Rails delete_all and autoincrement →
More of a note to self, but others may benefit.
Keep in mind when doing a delete_all on your model to empty the table, that you may want to reset the auto_increment value if you are using mySQL….
January 2009
1 post
keeping track of daily goals and time →
I’m a wannabe GTD geek (http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done), trying to make todo lists and stay organized, etc… I have inbox zero down at this point. BUT,…
December 2008
6 posts
Changing Git History →
Scott Chacon has posted an entry using the new Github pages on how to edit commit messages in Git. Really handy and not necessarily the most intuitive thing. Great to have instruction. schacon FTW!
Riding Rails: Introducing Rails Metal →
Rails Edge introduces Rails Metal, based on Rack. Think of it as a way to bypass the Rails framework on certain requests. DHH gives the example of the Campfire chat application. I’m thinking about…