About Author: Paul

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PHP, RoR, JS, Obj-C Developer working at @hellofax and @nextmarvel. Father of 2, husband of 1. Follow me at http://twitter.com/pdenya

Posts by Paul

  • There are a lot of games in the app store available for entertaining young kids but the majority of them aren’t ideal for kids or parents. I built a simple...

    An iOS match game for my kids

    Posted on May 9, 2012 | No Comments
    There are a lot of games in the app store available for entertaining young kids but the majority of them aren’t ideal for kids or parents. I built a simple...

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  • The Problem Rails development environment has incredibly slow page loads while production is fast. And when I say slow, I mean 15-30 seconds. Rails server will likely report the page...

    15-30 Second Page Loads in Rails 3 Development Environment

    Posted on May 5, 2012 | No Comments
    The Problem Rails development environment has incredibly slow page loads while production is fast. And when I say slow, I mean 15-30 seconds. Rails server will likely report the page...

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  • Grep is well known and commonly used command line search function that far too many people aren’t taking advantage of. The purpose of this article is to give technically inclined...

    Everyday Grep

    Posted on December 24, 2011 | No Comments
    Grep is well known and commonly used command line search function that far too many people aren’t taking advantage of. The purpose of this article is to give technically inclined...

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  • jQuery makes it effortless to make additional data available from within the jQuery.ajax callbacks (success | error | complete) because within the callbacks, this refers to the object that was...

    Passing additional data to jQuery.Ajax callbacks

    Posted on November 22, 2011 | No Comments
    jQuery makes it effortless to make additional data available from within the jQuery.ajax callbacks (success | error | complete) because within the callbacks, this refers to the object that was...

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  • The Problem If you’re installing postgresql via homebrew on Lion you might be encountering errors like these: psql: could not connect to server: Permission denied Is the server running locally...

    Brew Install Postgresql on OS X Lion

    Posted on September 4, 2011 | 20 Comments
    The Problem If you’re installing postgresql via homebrew on Lion you might be encountering errors like these: psql: could not connect to server: Permission denied Is the server running locally...

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  • There are a number of solutions for compiling mysql with MAMP on OS X but there’s a simpler solution. Download and install MySQL (any version, I did 5.5.14 which is...

    Compiling the MySQL2 gem on OS X with any version of MAMP

    Posted on July 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
    There are a number of solutions for compiling mysql with MAMP on OS X but there’s a simpler solution. Download and install MySQL (any version, I did 5.5.14 which is...

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  • I love using the twitter web interface whenever i’m not at my primary computer but after getting used to the way Twitter for Mac handles link shortening I’m often frustrated...

    Link Shortening on Twitter.com

    Posted on February 22, 2011 | No Comments
    I love using the twitter web interface whenever i’m not at my primary computer but after getting used to the way Twitter for Mac handles link shortening I’m often frustrated...

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  • Browser Detection Sucks There are a lot of good arguments for avoiding browser detection and they’re 100% correct in most cases. Anyone who’s ever seen the “Browser version does not...

    One line Javascript browser detection

    Posted on February 18, 2011 | No Comments
    Browser Detection Sucks There are a lot of good arguments for avoiding browser detection and they’re 100% correct in most cases. Anyone who’s ever seen the “Browser version does not...

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  • HTML Emails in certain mail clients commonly have display issues caused by line breaks, tabs or other whitespace between elements that should be ignored. Removing this whitespace is a common, but annoying, debugging strategy but it makes the code difficult to read or modify.

    One simple method for spending less time debugging HTML Emails

    Posted on February 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
    HTML Emails in certain mail clients commonly have display issues caused by line breaks, tabs or other whitespace between elements that should be ignored. Removing this whitespace is a common, but annoying, debugging strategy but it makes the code difficult to read or modify.

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  • Most flash developers at one time or another have run into the requirement of transporting data between the client and the server unmolested. As simple as it sounds this is...

    8 methods for securing Flash

    Posted on November 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Most flash developers at one time or another have run into the requirement of transporting data between the client and the server unmolested. As simple as it sounds this is...

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