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The Problem with Most REST Debates

Tue, 01 May 2012 17:43:00 -0400

“Have you actually read the specs?”

“Well, no, but that’s not the point!”

Actually, it is. A weekend’s worth of reading cures a lifetime of misconceptions:

Set a default Emacs font the easy way on Mac OS X

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:08:00 -0400

First, enabled menu bar mode if you haven’t already (M-x menu-bar-open). Under Options, select Set default font… and choose your font face and size. Now, use M-x describe-font to see the font description string. Copy and paste this string into your .emacs configuration. Here’s mine:


(set-default-font "-apple-Menlo-medium-normal-normal-*-18-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-")

More on Comment Form Usability

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:29:09 -0400

Sharpie has reinvented the pencil. This one uses a “liquid graphite” technology that erases like a normal graphite pencil, only it cures after three days – becoming permanent. I submit that website comments ought to follow a similar pattern, substituting minutes for hours.

UX Thought of the Day

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:36:00 -0400

No one wants to click a comment form Preview button. And if you let me choose between Submit and Preview, I’ll choose Submit everytime – only to notice my spelling error or blacklisted HTML tag after my comment’s been posted. Then, I’ll likely submit another comment right on its heels lamenting your shitty comment form’s lack of usability. It seems to me that inline previews with spell-checking and context-sensitive help are the way to go. Come to think of it, this might make a fun technology demo…

In only a few hours, I was able to write a small, easily customizable proxy server that caches...

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:25:05 -0400

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.

The Great Whitespace Giveaway

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:30:07 -0400

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...

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:52:22 -0400

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...

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:59:48 -0400

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

"Xcode UI Improvements"

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:02:12 -0400

“Xcode UI Improvements”

- Great suggestions. He should make an Xcode plugin to do just that. Oh wait, you can’t f’ing extend Xcode. That’s one of my biggest gripes with Xcode. Otherwise, I’d have hacked up Git support by now…

Xcode UI Improvements | Brandon Walkin

A Real Class Act

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:21:00 -0400

A Real Class Act:

Umpire Jim Joyce admits his mistake like a man. I hope he’s remembered as much for his integrity as for this call. I also hope the league overturns this unfortunate mistake. (via Gruber)

I work with the terminal a lot. In fact, the first thing I do when I log in to my machine at work is...

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:49:54 -0400

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.

The latest version of the LittleDog Robot (via daringfireball)...

Wed, 26 May 2010 08:54:56 -0400

The latest version of the LittleDog Robot (via daringfireball) Amazing.

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Tue, 25 May 2010 18:46:31 -0400

Daily Kos: State of the Nation:

Americans don’t realize how serious the oil catastrophe in the Gulf really is. The ecological and economic ramifications of this spill will be staggering.

Io seems like a wonderfully gentle introduction to Lisp.

Wed, 19 May 2010 07:45:38 -0400

Io seems like a wonderfully gentle introduction to Lisp.

Disillusionment

Tue, 18 May 2010 22:52:00 -0400

Sometimes I think I know how Cicero or Cato must have felt as they watched the death of their Republic, powerless to prevent it. Last month, the New York Times reported that the President approved the “targeted killing” of an American citizen. The penalty for treason in the United States is death (or a minimum of 5 years and $10,000). But the Constitution is unwavering in its insistence that ~~even~~ especially traitors must be convicted in a court of law. What has happened to our Constitution? What has happened to us?

Update: Salon has an excellent op-ed piece on this travesty.

I love the Ruby language. And I’m a huge fan of the Rails framework. But I’m so over the...

Tue, 18 May 2010 22:03:20 -0400

I love the Ruby language. And I’m a huge fan of the Rails framework. But I’m so over the project names.

Future of Flash | Adobe

Thu, 13 May 2010 17:26:48 -0400

Future of Flash | Adobe:

Adobe’s response to Steve’s Flash-bashing. There’s one argument they can’t rebut: View Source.