October 2010
45 posts
“A good plan violently executed today is far and a away better than a perfect...”
– General George S. Patton, from Bob’s 16 Rules
Oct 29th
How to sync an iPhone with multiple Macs →
These are instructions on how to sync your iPhone with two or more computers at the same time. To clarify this process a bit the tutorial is divided into two parts. The first part will instruct you…
Oct 27th
Green Certified Site | CO2Stats →
CO2Stats is an eco-friendly web badge that calculates your website’s environmental footprint, finds ways to make your site more energy-efficient, automatically purchases renewable energy to make it…
Oct 27th
Bill Buxton: Principal Researcher, Microsoft... →
Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the “things” that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and…
Oct 27th
The Sword of Damocles →
The Damocles of the anecdote was an obsequious courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse, Italy. Pandering to his king, Damocles exclaimed that, as a…
Oct 27th
New York ALT.NET October Meetup: Behavior Driven... →
With the advent of the .NET 4 Framework there has been a paradigm shift in relation to how we write code. The DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) gives us new tools and methodologies in dynamic…
Oct 27th
AchieveNext DevNews (achievenextdev) on Twitter →
AchieveNext DevNews @achievenextdev NYC Updates from Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, and Development News http://achievenext.com
Oct 27th
Delicious Bookmarks Extension (Beta) - Google... →
Oct 27th
The Silicon Alley 100: New York's Coolest Tech... →
FirstMark separately introduced its own seed fund, and made investments in companies like Knewton, CollegeOnly, and AppFirst.
Oct 27th
The Silicon Alley 100: New York's Coolest Tech... →
Director, TechStars New York Startup accelerator program TechStars is expanding to New York, and David Tisch was tapped to direct the new program. He’s put together an all-star team of mentors…
Oct 27th
delicious-chrome-extension - Project Hosting on... →
Adds a Del.icio.us button in your Chrome Toolbar. Now with Customizable keyboard shortcut key, and selected text populates your Delicious notes field. This extension is only available from our…
Oct 27th
“Benny Imura couldn’t hold a job, so he took to killing.”
– Read the first 100 pages of Rot & Ruin for free!
Oct 27th
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Woaring wapids
Oct 23rd
Oct 22nd
I am hungry, tired, and nearly Rubied-out. My Rumble hurts! #railsrumble
Oct 17th
Coffee break at the NYC #railsrumble hackathon. We’ve been going all night and still going. 48 hours of crazy. 36 or so to go! @mjording tx!
Oct 17th
RT @CollegeOnly: A billion dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool? A trillion dollars.
Oct 17th
“Turds can wilt.”
– Matthew Jording, after 48+ hours of sleepless Ruby hacking
Oct 17th
Oct 16th
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Stomach Rumbling, too!
Okay, we’ve been working straight for about 20 hours. I’ve had about 3 hours sleep (total). Things are starting to annoy me that wouldn’t usually. I need sleep and I need to get this work done. Despite all that, however, I’m still excited about the project and want to contribute more to it… Hopping off to write some content for the main site. Cheers!
Oct 16th
Testing Open Tumblr Posting
Now *anyone* can post on my Tumblelog. Wonder how long that’ll last before I decide that it’s a baaad idea..? Muhuhahahaahaaha!
Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
Oct 16th
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Are you ready to Rumble?
We’re at New Work City. Two teams have gathered for Rails Rumble 2010. It starts in a few minutes. I’ll be live blogging major developments, problems, etc. Photos will be coming, too. Our team is about to regroup and hit the ground running. Are you ready to rumble?
Oct 15th
RT @AdamRNeary: Sailing to India with VC-backed ships, discovering America, and planting a proud flag? These days we call that a pivot, …
Oct 13th
RT @avdi: Foursquare: “50+ are checked in here. It’s a 4square flashmob!” No it’s not. It’s a fucking airport.
Oct 13th
At #rubynuby with a full class at NYU, Weaver Hall room 312. Happened to have a mini-DV to SVGA adapter in my bag. Ha! Saved the day again.
Oct 13th
Oct 12th
Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything (Or, Old... →
Robert Anton Wilson discusses such topics as futurist psychology, the paranormal, God, conspiracies real and imagined, James Joyce, guerrilla ontology, plus rare personal reflections on his extraordinary life.
Oct 12th
“Guess what? It also says they’re happier today than they were two years...”
– Why Facebook is Making You Happier :: Psychology Today
Oct 11th
Oct 11th
Nate and I seem to be on the same wavelength in regards to our #railsrumble team; looks like it’s gonna be a sweet hackathon next weekend!
Oct 10th
Talking to Nate Kidwell about our #railsrumble team. Exciting!
Oct 10th
RT @elight: Frustration is nature’s way of telling you,”UR DOIN IT WRONG!”
Oct 9th
Dare to Excel! →
Daring to excel means having the guts to speak up or take action, when needed… especially when others do not have the nerve.  It can be simple, easy, and harmless.  Or, it can be complex, difficult, and dangerous.  It means being aware of the efforts involved, the obstacles you may face, and the consequences of failure, and still being willing to proceed.  This very site is a small, somewhat...
Oct 8th
I took the Twitter spelling test and scored: 100% (A+) http://su.pr/1T8Z4G from the voluptuous @oatmeal
Oct 8th
Cucumber, Tags and Continuous Integration oh my! →
We want to be able to commit our code frequently to prevent merge headaches.
Oct 5th
RubyScript2Exe - A Ruby Compiler →
RubyScript2Exe transforms your Ruby application into a standalone, compressed Windows, Linux or Mac OS X (Darwin) executable. You can look at it as a “compiler”. Not in the sense of a source-code-to-byte-code compiler, but as a “collector”, for it collects all necessary files to run your application on an other machine: the Ruby application, the Ruby interpreter and the...
Oct 5th
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Revenge of the Monochrome Turtle
n!=n*(n-1 )*(n-2)* … *4*3*2*11 l if n greater than 0; 1 if n=0 The recursive definition of n! is derived by noting that if n greater than 0, n!=n*(n-1)! and if n=0, n!1. In Logo this becomes TO FACTORIAL :N IF :N = 0 OUTPUT 1 OUTPUT:N * FACTORIAL(:N-1) E N D
Oct 3rd
RT @wiscoDude: Hemp IS Jobs. http://cot.ag/bFqtiy
Oct 2nd
RT @timoreilly: Netflix lets its staff take as much holiday as they want, whenever they want – and it works http://bit.ly/bRlyie via @pa …
Oct 1st
RT @RailsDeveloper: We have over 125 links related to Rails 3 already!
http://railsdeveloper.com/links/tags/rails-3/
Oct 1st
RT @othman: OH: “I heard that twitter is building a phone, but you can only make an 8sec phone call. Oh wait that’s AT&T”
Oct 1st