Ever since Apple published their (remarkably readable) App Review Guidelines the number of ‘Oh My God. My App Got Rejected!’ stories I’ve seen on a weekly basis from iOS developers has fallen dramatically. Along with this, I’ve seen a shift in applications being rejected on technical grounds to applications being rejected on the basis of real or perceived Terms of [...]
On Friday I came across this post asking for people to try and do interesting things with the recently published 11 year data dump of BoingBoing blog posts. For a long time I’ve been itching to try and use the ruby classifier gem for something cool and I figured that this was my chance. I decided to create a quick [...]
Over on Hacker News, user godDLL created a really nice custom style sheet for the site. Called Comfy-Helvetica, the stylesheet makes the Hacker News site look a little cleaner and more readable (at least to me) – comparison screenshot below: godDLL published the user stylesheet as for Safari, but I’ve since moved onto Chrome and hadn’t previously had the desire [...]
For a soon to be announced project I needed to setup a main website/cms with WordPress and then within that same domain also setup a Rails application. This is trickier than it sounds as WordPress on Nginx has some very specific setup requirements in order for pretty URLs to work. There were also lots of tutorials online about how to [...]
I’ve long been fascinated by QR Codes. I originally wrote about some of their less conventional uses back in 2007 and I was part of the team that put QR Codes on every badge at SXSW 2010. If you’re not familiar with them, they’re a type of square barcode that’s most often used to hold a URL. You scan the [...]
In my last post I recreated a series of Twitter posts between myself and Jeff Atwood about what one of the StackOverflow badges was named. Doing so was tougher than it may have appeared due to the conversation taking place last June (7 months ago). Twitter’s built-in search features: http://search.twitter.com only goes back a couple weeks. Google’s search results return [...]
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 of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted. 2. Plugins as a [...]
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 the audio below and have linked to some of the topics that came up in the discussion. The audio quality [...]
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 purple servers and pony tailed CEO’s) have unleashed a new virtualization product on the world: VirtualBox, and while it lacks [...]
