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An iOS match game for my kids
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsThere 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... -
15-30 Second Page Loads in Rails 3 Development Environment
Posted on May 5, 2012 | No CommentsThe 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... -
Everyday Grep
Posted on December 24, 2011 | No CommentsGrep 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... -
Passing additional data to jQuery.Ajax callbacks
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsjQuery 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... -
Brew Install Postgresql on OS X Lion
Posted on September 4, 2011 | 20 CommentsThe 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... -
Compiling the MySQL2 gem on OS X with any version of MAMP
Posted on July 11, 2011 | 2 CommentsThere 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... -
Link Shortening on Twitter.com
Posted on February 22, 2011 | No CommentsI 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... -
One line Javascript browser detection
Posted on February 18, 2011 | No CommentsBrowser 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 simple method for spending less time debugging HTML Emails
Posted on February 11, 2011 | 1 CommentHTML 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. -
8 methods for securing Flash
Posted on November 1, 2010 | No CommentsMost 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...