Reflections
Edit: It seems that the publish call didn't go through all the way so I am publishing it again. As a contractor I spend a lot of time working on projects other than my own. To keep track of the things I need to do for each project as well as University classes I have…
In my Computer Science course I was asked to write a program, in Java, that would compute the powers of 2 from 2^1 to 2^20 using only a while statement. At first I tried, with just the basics that we had learned so far, to create the program. Things did not go well because I…
Shorter (read: less content) blog post this week because life has been overly strenuous this week. School has become, almost overwhelmingly, full of homework and reading assignments as well as programming assignments. Besides that, work has been extremely tiring because of the workload and being short handed (for completely valid reasons - I don't blame…
Recently (after upgrading to Snow Leopard) I have been forced to find other twitter clients than the one I had been using for almost a year, Nambu. As a part of the MacHeist offering I got a copy of Twitterrific which I tried for a couple weeks...I hated it. Here they are with their pros…
About 6 months ago I made the switch from TextMate to MacVim because of a couple things: TextMate is kinda, not really being developed anymore Many other options are out there TONs of Python developers post about their editors all the time VIM is hardcore and installed by default on many Linux systems (which I…
I tried...for about 16 hours to get Wordpress, S3, CloudFront, Rackspace Cloud Files, SimpleCDN, and MyCDN to play nicely and serve content from a CDN, it didn't work, at all. (I tried multiple plugins from multiple vendors and shell scripts, to no avail.) Queue W3TC upgrade! WTF? It all works now? Just like that? No…
I tweeted on Thanskgiving "If your potatoes need gravy UR DOIN IT WRONG" so I wanted to follow it up with how to DO IT RIGHT. The recipe, serves about 5 people: 7 - 10 washed potatoes, skin on or peeled 1 saucepan for the cream mix 1 large pot for boiling the potatoes 1…
It has been fun testing WordPress out the last few days. I have learned a lot of things about this, fairly minimal CMS. Basically, I learned that not all PHP is the devil (no actual religious connotation, other than the implied meaning; bad or unclean), just most of it. I don't ever want to touch…
I just found the best client/invoice/time tracking application ever. The rundown: 3 free users 3 invoices per month $9.99 per month to get unlimited invoices more users? $3.99 per user from there your own subdomain open name spaces on your subdomain your logo on the invoice unlimited clients and projects mac widget browser based tracking…
sudo chmod 755 /opt/subversion/bin/svn* | sudo ln -s /opt/subversion/bin/svn* Especially since for some reason installing the new version of Subversion on a mack puts it in the /opt/subversion/bin folder. REGEX FTW! ***Update*** I completely dumped SVN after this. I switched to Mercurial and I am loving it. No looking back, SVN who?