Podcasts I'm Listening To (November 2015 Edition)
My wife Naoko wrote a reply to this post. It was fun comparing how different the podcasts we listen to are. :) First, I'd like to plug a podcast that I'm a semi-regular guest on...
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Homebrew and PostgreSQL 9.4
Edit 2016/1/9 I have updated these instructions for upgrading from PostgreSQL 9.4 to 9.5. As you may know, I am a big PostgreSQL user and fan. I also use Homebrew to manage 3rd...
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Kerbal Space Program - Asteroid Redirect Mission
Kerbal Space Program \-\- KSP for short -- is an incredibly addictive game about... Space exploration! In the game, you are in charge of the space program on planet Kerbin. Kerb...
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Ruby 2.1.0-preview2
Ruby 2.1 is coming soon! Personally, I've noticed quite a few speedups, and it seems like they've fixed a large memory problem I was running in to on pre-release staging environ...
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Git and Local / Server Hooks
I have been a proponent of pre-commit hooks for a very long time. After doing some searching, I found this lovely gem. It consists of a bunch of checks before you commit your co...
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Marshal.dump and load with ActiveRecord
If you aren't familiar with Marshal.dump and Marshal.load , you probably should be. It's used to serialize Ruby objects into binary data - mostly caching. Now, if you're trying...
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Rails Security 101
I've come across too many Rails apps with the secret token in version control. Don't do that.
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S3 Uploader
There have been more than a few times where someone needs to send a big file to me. So, I made a quick and dirty tool to allow anyone to upload files directly to a S3 bucket. No...
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Ruby 2.0.0 p195 PSA
In Ruby 2.0.0 patchlevel 195, you can no longer mix old- and new-style hash syntaxes in method arguments. For example: Wrong Right or Apparently this has been fixed in another p...
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My Experiences with Rubinius
Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby language spec. I've been using it recently for a project, and I've been liking it so far. Here's a few thoughts I've been having while...
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謎WordPress Part 1
There's a Japanese word I like, "謎" - the dictionary defines it as "a mystery", "riddle", or "enigma" - I like to define it as "something that makes no logical sense whatever"....
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Fighting Against Internet Explorer, Part 2
I've been making a Facebook iframe app recently, and I found that this little code » just doesn't work on Everyone's Favorite Browser™ (Internet Explorer 8). always returned "0"...
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I hate WordPress
is NOT correct!!! (This only applies if you're outside of UTC. What's that, like 99% of the world?)
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Fighting against IE, part 1.
Now, back to real work.
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The Origins of Twitter
The origins of Twitter. 1. Here you go, free service! 1. Wow, thanks for all those users! 1. Look, you were great, but we don't (really...) need you anymore. 1. Fuck you. In rel...
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Font Smoothing
This is what text (more or less) looks like in Windows! Just do: \ \ \ css \\ { -webkit-font-smoothing: none; } \ \ \ To enable Windows Emulation mode. Great stuff. There's a fe...
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Flagship LLC
As many of you are aware, I have been working for about 6 months now, with 2 other people. On July 4th, we are pleased to announce that we have officially become a company, Flag...