May 2009
23 posts
Markdown Syntax Documentation →
DOM DocumentFragments →
Thanks to John Resig. I definitely was not aware of this.
Adobe's Mysterious System.Product and Connect Pro →
Absolutely scandalous!!!
Deploy.rb →
Contains the documentation I’ve been looking for.
.htpasswd Content Generator →
I don’t have htpasswd. Boo. This perl script seems faster than anything else out there.
Void Main's Linksys WRT54G Revival Tip →
I’ve done this before! Great to find it again.
Setting up nginx, ssl, and virtual hosts →
Thanks to Glenn Gillen. This is one of the better Nginx config files examples out there besides what’s on the Nginx Wiki.
git ready » learn git one commit at a time →
Git is awesome, but software engineering can get messy.
GitHub Issue Tracker! - GitHub
Microsoft's New Multiple-Browser Tester →
Thanks to Z80xxc! via Slashdot. IE is annoying. Also worth mentioning is browsershots.org and IETester.
Self-Signed SSL Certificates and Nginx →
Thanks to Slicehost Articles. I haven’t done this for some time, let alone for nginx. Good to find out it doesn’t accept a pem off the back.
How do I reset/revert a specific file to a... →
Thanks to Greg Hewgill via Stack Overflow. It was only until now that I’ve learned about “svn revert != git revert” pitfall. The crappy thing was that even though I aborted the revert commit, when I did a regular commit the revert info was still there. Lame.
Git with Rails Tutorial on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Upgrading to Rails 2.3 with Git →
I thought of this same exact idea last night. I googled before I tried it and I’m glad I did.
Creating Blank Git Branches →
Thanks to Tim Dysinger.
Window Size and Scrolling →
Thanks to Mark “Tarquin” Wilton-Jones. Nothing better than a critical feature that is inconsistently inconsistent. Wonderful.
A Quick Guide to Digital Video Resolution and... →
The Lurker's Guide To Video →
I bumped into this trying to find an answer to the NTSC 720 vs. 640 conundrum. Thanks to Chris Pirazzi. The man is gangster. He created the original Bill Gates Borg image, not to mention Apple’s standard for uncompressed YCbCr video in QuickTime.
Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC | Video on TED.com
Don Norman on 3 ways good design makes you happy | Video on TED.com
The Cloud Mirror - Uncomfortably Augmented Reality →
This guy has developed a lot of cool stuff. I wish I went to Mindshare. Next time.
Make Presents →
An in-depth look inside technology and what makes it work. Current episodes cover capacitors, resistors, LEDs, transistors, and diodes.
WhatToTest -
nativeclient -
Native Client:... →
The plugin is still too complex (and buggy) for production use, but I’m definitely keeping an eye on it.