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Rails Mountain Lion Errors
The Problem If you’re starting rails server on Mountain Lion you might be encountering errors like these: $ thin start >> Using rack adapter...
View ArticleAudibly: Audio Recording for Everyday Use
We’ve developed a utility for quickly and easily creating and sharing recordings from your mac desktop. Audibly is a menubar application that lets you record audio anytime by holding a hotkey. When...
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An iOS match game for my kids
There are a lot of games in the app store available for entertaining young kids but the majority of them aren’t ideal for kids or parents. I built a simple match game for my kids that addresses a few...
View Article15-30 Second Page Loads in Rails 3 Development Environment
The Problem Rails development environment has incredibly slow page loads while production is fast. And when I say slow, I mean 15-30 seconds. Rails server will likely report the page as loading in...
View ArticleEveryday Grep
Grep is well known and commonly used command line search function that far too many people aren’t taking advantage of. The purpose of this article is to give technically inclined folks easy to follow...
View ArticlePassing additional data to jQuery.Ajax callbacks
jQuery makes it effortless to make additional data available from within the jQuery.ajax callbacks (success | error | complete) because within the callbacks, this refers to the object that was passed...
View ArticleBrew Install Postgresql on OS X Lion
The Problem If you’re installing postgresql via homebrew on Lion you might be encountering errors like these: psql: could not connect to server: Permission denied Is the server running locally and...
View ArticleCompiling the MySQL2 gem on OS X with any version of MAMP
There are a number of solutions for compiling mysql with MAMP on OS X but there’s a simpler solution. Download and install MySQL (any version, I did 5.5.14 which is the latest as of this writing)....
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Link Shortening on Twitter.com
I love using the twitter web interface whenever i’m not at my primary computer but after getting used to the way Twitter for Mac handles link shortening I’m often frustrated with Twitter.com. Twitter...
View ArticleOne line Javascript browser detection
Browser Detection Sucks There are a lot of good arguments for avoiding browser detection and they’re 100% correct in most cases. Anyone who’s ever seen the “Browser version does not meet minimum...
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