I came across an incredibly poorly worded question on StackOverflow where the person asked How to Manipulate the DOM with Ruby on Rails. After some back and forth it turns out that he’s not asking how to use RJS or … Continued
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How to Take Screenshots on Mobile Phones
I’ve recently been digging back into doing mobile web development for The Social Collective and had a user send me a picture (taken with his webcam) of the browser on his Blackberry. It was basically a brightly colored smudge. Luckily, … Continued
Running an OpenSource Project – Sean Cribbs
Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp. Some things really stuck out to me: 1. The move to Github quieted the number … Continued
How 37 Signals Deploys Their Software
I had a great time last Saturday at Raleigh Ruby Camp and met a host of Ruby on Rails developers working on interesting things. One of the discussions that occurred was lead by Mark Imbracio of 37 Signals. I’ve posted … Continued
User Augmented Reality Interface
While the title of this post may sound like I just strung four random words together, they actually accurately describe the following video that depicts what augmented reality interfaces might look like. For the time being, I think we’re still … Continued
How To Batch Convert Photos for Free with OS X
Many people don’t realize that every copy of OS X ships with a robotic personal assistant: Automator. Automator is a drag and drop tool that allows you to quickly throw together time saving mini applications. Something many people need to … Continued
How to Run Windows on OS X for free with Sun’s Virtualbox
VMWare Fusion and Parallels have been the two dominant OS X virtualization methods for running Windows (or Linux) inside of OS X. While both are great applications, they each cost around $80 US. Recently, Sun Microsystems (makers of Solaris, big … Continued
Quake Family Tree
BoingBoing’s post today about the Wikipedia Quake Tree below caught my eye as I had played so many of Quake and Quake derivatives. I was curious just how many and went through and highlighted all the ones I remembered on … Continued
Nelson’s RSS Problem
Nelson Minar was helping a friend sort out why: “Google Reader was sending folks to his own domain rather than directly to the link destination.” Turns out it is because of the differences between guid and link elements in an … Continued
Rackspace, Malls and the Environment
I hadn’t checked out any of the FastCompany.TV ScobleShows. The one that caught my eye is below and features a tour and some extensive interviews with various Rackspace higher ups as they tour and discuss their reasoning for taking over … Continued