In only a few hours, I was able to write a small, easily customizable proxy server that caches responses to help me develop while disconnected from our backend system. Node.js and MongoDB are definitely a force to be reckoned with.

Today only, I’d like to offer the first 10,000,000 programmers unlimited FREE whitespace! Take advantage of this limited-time offer to update your code with all the newlines, tabs, and especially spaces it so richly deserves. Now you’ll finally be able to turn this:

if(true){
foo();
}else{
bar();
}

into this:

if (true) {
  foo();
} 
else {
  bar();
}

So, go ahead, and let your code breathe.

When adding unit test targets and classes in XCode, it’s easy to accidentally choose the wrong SDK / project type. I could have saved myself a lot of head-scratching building my iPad app if I had bothered to pay attention.

Even running Windows in a VM when I need to test a site in IE is painful. The user experience is absolutely terrible.

I work with the terminal a lot. In fact, the first thing I do when I log in to my machine at work is to open up several shell tabs in Terminal and change directory. The specific directories I change to vary from project to project. With a little help from common shell commands and utilities, it’s easy to find out which directories you CD into most often. If you find yourself visiting a particular directory often, consider adding it to CDPATH.

Io seems like a wonderfully gentle introduction to Lisp.