September 2008
20 posts
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August 2008
32 posts
Things to Say During Sex (a map) →
via anarchaia
“It has been tested on Firefox 2.0, Safari 3.1.1 and IE 7 on Windoze Vista. Not...”
– Jim Neath in SWFUpload, Paperclip and Ruby on Rails
“You could say that the best thing to happen to new media is old media.”
– Nigel Hollis » Blog Archive » The new media dilemma (via datainsightsideas)
The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles →
datainsightsideas:
(via danw)
Fantastic list. May I add Getting Real?
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My New Favorite Git Trick
In your .bash_profile or similar
branch_point() {
git rev-list --boundary $(__git_ps1 '%s')...master | grep ^- | cut -c2-
}
$ git rebase -i $(branch_point)
Wonderful for making topic branches, committing the hell out of them & cleaning up before a push/dcommit.
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All the Colors in Your CSS
grep -h 'color: #' *.css | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq
The illustrated guide to recovering lost commits... →
I may/may not have just done something to warrant finding this page.
Tris pulled from the App Store →
marco:
The Tetris Company sent one of their infamous bullshit threat letters to Apple and the author of this (very good) free Tetris clone.
Their claim, as usual, is completely unenforceable and would never hold up in court. They know this. But they also know that indie developers are unlikely to have the cash to spare on lawyers and court proceedings, so they send bullshit letters like this...
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`git pull --rebase` by default
It took me a while to track this down (since it’s not in the docs for git-pull), so I’ll throw it out there for the G to pick up.
If you want git pull to add in --rebase every time, you can set the branch.autosetuprebase configuration option. From the docs (for git-config):
When a new branch is created with git-branch or git-checkout that tracks another branch, this variable...
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One more Mario Kart Wii question:
mandel:
marco:
And what happened to the jump-skidding-turning thing that everyone did in the N64 version? How do I do that? Or has it been removed?
The “jump-skidding-turning” is there when you select the manual mode and they have added some cool stuff. When ever you turn and use the skidding (which I recommend), if you do it for long enough, you will see that a “blue” trail...
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Mario Kart Wii
marco:
Anyway, Mario Kart seems good so far. It will get better as I figure it out and get used to the mechanics.
Woo! I actually just got a hold of this game for myself finally (played the girlfriend’s copy for a while first). I’ve played MK since the SNES version, and I must say, although nothing beats the N64 version for pure replay value, I am really enjoying the Wii version...
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Things that make me feel like we're missing the...
marco:
Having to insert a different plastic disc for every different console game.
Having to drive to a store to acquire these plastic discs (or have them delivered on a truck, in a box, from a far-away warehouse).
Having to store the plastic discs and their giant plastic cases on a shelf somewhere.
Having to purchase a new game license if the plastic disc is lost or scratched, which could...
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The vexed question of punctuation →
Mostly very good although I’m not sure I agree with the rules for emoticons:
A smiley has to be separated from the word by a space. If a punctuator follows, no space should be put between. As a rule, using an emoticon means no full stop at the end. A smiley may coincide with a closing bracket (given that it is preceded by an opening one :-).
It looks as if that last closing bracket...
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Chris Wanstrath's Keynote at Ruby Hoedown →
My plea to you today is to start a side project. Scratch your own itch. Be creative. Share something with the world, or keep it to yourself.
Long. Some choice wisdoms though.
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git svn dcommit with username on 1.6.0
Apply this patch to your git src before you compile:
cd $GIT_SRC
curl http://gist.github.com/raw/6442/37801bd3ec887329ba9e01119e7f568cc620c533 | patch -p1
"".nil?
"".nil?
# => false
Consequently:
foo = ""
if foo
# THIS WILL EXECUTE!
end
Please be careful. Use String#empty or Object#blank?
“Now take a moment to reflect on just how empty your repository is. A fine moment...”
– Dr. Nic in My attempt at sake task management
html_escape in your flashes
in application.rb:
def html_escape(*args)
ERB::Util.html_escape(*args)
end
alias :h :html_escape
Random Subset
How would you implement grabbing a random n-sized subset of an array? ie,
class Array
def rand_subset(n)
# WRITE ME
end
end
My initial thought was self.sort_by{rand}.slice(0,n). Although this runs in something around O(n*log(n)), it just seems like there has to be a better way.
Ron introduced this into a project at work:
class Array
def rand_subset(n)
subset = []
n =...
Use the Best Available Ampersand →
Dan Cederholm taking Robert Bringhurst to heart: Use CSS to make a list of common, and beautiful, italic ampersands and substitute them in Roman text. Why didn’t I think of this before‽ (via SimpleBits)
Been doing this for a while, ever since topfunky wrote about it.
(via jhongosh)
~>
gem 'will-paginate', '~>2.2'
Notice that we only include 2 digits of the version. The operator will drop the final digit of a version, then increment the remaining final digit to get the upper limit version number.
RubyGems User Guide
The idea being here that you trust the 2.x series, but not the 3.x series. Cool!
“The antiscience agenda is visible as early as kindergarten, with its infantile...”
– How Our Culture Keeps Students Out of Science
try the new BETA tumblr →
Okay, so if you haven’t checked this out yet, let me summarize: everything is bigger. That’s all.
Oh, there is as new color them. But I can’t even tell if I like it because every element on the page is so freaking massive.
(via peterwknox)
“The clusterfuck that has been the first month of MobileMe […] has resulted in...”
– Gruber on the MobileMe Reorg
Google Calendar CalDAV support →
This is awesome. Not perfect yet, but awesome.