Work Chair,
184 2009
I'm looking for a work chair - something good to sit in while I'm programming, getting work done. Something good for the study. I'm thinking I might get an Aeron, but one on craigslist. I've done some searches and they look pretty affordable. Much cheaper than they have been in recent years - I guess they aren't as popular as they used to be. They remind be of the dotcom I used to work at, and that's not always a good thing. But I do remember thinking that the chairs were decent. I know what size chair I'm supposed...
Shorthand,
182 2009
After doing pushbits for a daily stretch of many months, I developed a rhythm and a process that I grew to love and hate, and love again. It was nice to open up the cartoon template that I designed, make changes to the text, adjust the eyes and mouth so that it fit the idea. Export that out of Illustrator, drop it into Photoshop, add a layer of color and then export the final image as a png. Upload that into the web site and call it done for the day. After growing accustomed to that routine, I was...
the console is your friend,
181 2009
When I'm doing things on the server - updating files in vi, and pretty much running through a variety of changes, back and forth, generally making a mess o' things, I usually end up needing to restart something. Probably a mongrel cluster restart, which usually has to take place in a certain folder. This means I have to navigate back to that folder, which means a bunch of typing. And that generally stinks. I'm sure there's a nice way to make it faster, but one way to do it, and keep it in control, is to open up another...
flickrPro,
180 2009
So I shelled out the cash for a flickr Pro account. Why? I'm not really sure... I guess I wanted to see the stats. I also didn't want to get reach the limit, because I've been posting to the site quite regularly, and I figured that maybe I should contribute to keeping them around. Since I have a bunch of pictures up there, it's probably better to support them, than to let them go away. Plus it's the price of a book - and not even a nerdbook or a coffee table book. So it's a decent deal I...
will_paginate,
174 2009
So, this here site hasn't had pagination in a very long time. When I first did this new design, I didn't really mind it. I didn't have much content in the first place so it didn't really make much of a difference. But now I've got way too much in here. It's essentially unnavigable. Until now. I did a quick google search to see how Rails developers are meant to implement pagination. Turns out there's a really simple way to do it - far less kludgey as the original way, if I'm being completely honest. It was a matter...
