Daniel H.

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Rails 3: pwning Rails 2 since 2009

Daniel H. posted an article on - Dec 4, 2009, 5:24 pm
Yehuda Katz’s slides from SD.rb on Rails 3. I can’t wait! Vaporware To AwesomeWayne’s World Salute to Javascript! Scha-wing! Turn it on, or view outside your feed reader.View more documents fr...
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Debugging Ruby by Aman Gupta

Daniel H. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 12:32 am
I wish I could see this guy speak. I learn so much just reading his slides and other writings, I can’t even imagine what I’d learn if I was actually there. Debugging RubyDude, even rural China h...
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Cancel YouTube uploads on your iPhone

Daniel H. posted an article on - Nov 30, 2009, 9:00 am
This might seem trivial, but once you start an upload of a video to YouTube from your iPhone, I couldn’t find a way to cancel it. Well no more are terrible drunken videos going to get uploaded! O...
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Mockups and Me, a Balsamiq Review

Daniel H. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 9:00 am
... with it: the top scroll pane wouldn’t respond to my two-finger scroll on my MacBook Pro’s touchpad. From a usability point of view, the organization of ... no real need to make mo...
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swfobject, meet jQuery

Daniel H. posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 8:44 pm
I was getting sick and tired of just blindly copying and pasting embed code for videos and every other flash thing I post. Naturally, being a programmer I had to do something about it. Enter jQuery an...
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Unescape HTML with Javascript

Daniel H. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 5:49 pm
I’m just passing this on, as I didn’t do it, I just found it. Over here is a pretty slick way to unescape HTML. I ran into the need for this when I was working on some inline-editing code. I wa...
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Interface Design Basics from Samo Korošec

Daniel H. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 9:00 pm
Found this in my internet travels, and found it interesting and informative. I hope you do too. Interface Design Basics (english)Javascript. It’s the new hotness. Turn it on, or view this outside...
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Screen Scraping with Ruby

Daniel H. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 9:00 am
Scripting languages are the bomb. I pretty much live in them right now. Ruby is my current (and probably will be for a long time) favourite scripting language, and it has a library for everything. ...
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Programming with a Guitar

Daniel H. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 2:55 pm
The Devexpress folks apparently have a little competition once in a while to show that their software kicks ass. The last one (as stated in the video) was a guy with a keyboard and no Devexpress vs th...
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My Tools of the Trade

Daniel H. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 9:00 am
Well I figured since everybody else is doing it, why not hop on the bandwagon. These are my tools of the trade: Hardware 2009 Apple MacBook Pro 13" running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I got this ...
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10/GUI

Daniel H. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 1:05 am
Somebody needs to make this. I would be on this like white on rice. 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.
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Why the Github's really are better than the cvsdude's

Daniel H. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 9:00 am
There are a lot of hosted source control providers out there. Github, bitbucket, cvsdude, ProjectLocker, Codaset, SourceForge, Codeplex, Google Code, Beanstalk, and I could probably keep going until a...
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techradar needs to turn on their radar

Daniel H. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 9:00 am
A few things in a recent techradar post made my eye twitch a bit. Keyboard and mice Obviously they aren’t programmers. I have a hard time imagining that in only 10 years, programmers won’t be ...
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What Do Programmers Really Do?

Daniel H. posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 8:21 pm
Indeed. What do we do? Well I was curious. WTF you might say. “You’re a programmer! Shouldn’t you know what you do?” Well yes, I know what I do. What I mean is what do programmers do while ...
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Web Syntax Highlighters

Daniel H. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 9:00 am
Anybody who blogs about programming related topics needs to post code at times. When I was on Wordpress, I used the WP-CodeBox plugin. It worked quite well, but it was server side. This is fine if ...
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Half Life 2 Sounds

Daniel H. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 12:34 pm
This guy is my hero.
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Blogging System Shootout

Daniel H. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 9:00 am
So I have this blog. You might have one, but odds are, we aren’t using the same system. Well, actually since I run my own system, there is probably no way in hell we are running the same system. Any...
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Get your Wordpress out of my Blogging Software

Daniel H. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 10:58 pm
Hopefully you didn’t notice much, except the speed increase, but my blog is no longer on the behemoth that is Wordpress. While Wordpress served me well for quite some time on my other blog it alw...
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Google Sets

Daniel H. posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 9:00 am
Have you check out Google Sets? It’s great. I really don’t know how long it’s been around, but it’s pretty slick. If you were looking for server names, like in this serverfault question,...
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AuthSMTP

Daniel H. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 2:26 am
Need to send email from your web app? Don’t want to use Gmail because of limits? Okay I’m not about to break into a marketing campaign, because I just found the website, but it looks like AuthS...
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Service Level Agreements. Who cares?

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 9:00 am
More and more people seem to be ever so concerned about the Service Level Agreement. Okay. Actually it’s more like companies, and the people responsible for picking services. If you don’t kn...
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Threaded Awesome

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 30, 2009, 12:08 pm
@tmm1 and @joedamato put up a good slide show on slideshare about ruby threading issues, and their fixes. These things have been around for a while, but now they are here in slideshow form. Definitely...
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Amnesia Antidote

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 30, 2009, 10:00 am
Last old one. No time to forget But then again you never forget Your mind always remembers It’s the persistence of memory Time falling upon the world In its many forms, seeming to halt Insigh...
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His Only Fear

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 29, 2009, 10:00 am
More old stuff. Man fleeing Escaping from his raging nightmare Nightmare; Man constructing destruction Destruction of humanity Humanity; Man losing power Power; gods manifest the torment Tormen...
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Shower Tiles

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 28, 2009, 10:00 am
Guess what? It’s old! Shower tiles…look at them Do they look back? Can you see you’re reflection? Are you the reflection? Sounds so typical to be asked of something reflective, But lea...
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White Ninja with No Sword

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 27, 2009, 10:00 am
More old stuff. The white ninja glides Over and through the air The wind A breeze here A gust there Aeolus is the preferred mode of transportation Despite the white Camouflaged day or night W...
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The Painter

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 10:00 am
More of my old stuff. The painter is patient, Knowing perfection takes time. She is also attentive, Knowing inspiration is everywhere. A graceful choice she makes with her brush; A weapon for th...
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Murdered for Love

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 10:00 am
More old stuff. Silence… Tranquility… Murdered by the beast. Thunder rolls in its wake, As lightning reveals a path. You never see him coming, Only know when he’s past. As darkness fills...
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The Selfish Spider

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 10:00 am
This is an older one. Out from the shadows, unknown Towards the light feet patter A valiant mission awaits To feed the family But only a ruse results Mighty legs climb over foes To reach visibi...
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Post Twitter to identi.ca

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 9:00 am
So I signed up at identi.ca a while ago, but never really did anything with it. I also found Yahoo Pipes a while ago, and put it on my Todo List to look at, but that was about it. I don’t know w...
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Post Twitter to identi.ca

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 9:00 am
So I signed up at identi.ca a while ago, but never really did anything with it. I also found Yahoo Pipes a while ago, and put it on my Todo List to look at, but that was about it. I don’t know w...
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respond_to with respond_glue: override respond_to

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 9:00 am
So check this: you have a nice little Rails app. You have some stuff for a JSON API type system. You’ve got an STI setup with the Widget model class and the more concrete FancyWidget and WeirdWi...
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respond_to with respond_glue: override respond_to

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 9:00 am
So check this: you have a nice little Rails app. You have some stuff for a JSON API type system. You’ve got an STI setup with the Widget model class and the more concrete FancyWidget and WeirdWi...
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Guild Wars 2 Reveal: I'm excited

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 20, 2009, 5:05 pm
This should be pretty solid. Video Game – E3 2009 – Video Game Trailers
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Atwood's Law Misunderstood

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 9:00 am
Jeff Atwood, of Coding Horror and stackoverflow fame made a blog post entitled All Programming is Web Programming Go read it, and come back, I’ll wait. Okay back? Good I was originally just...
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Atwood's Law Misunderstood

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 9:00 am
Jeff Atwood, of Coding Horror and stackoverflow fame made a blog post entitled All Programming is Web Programming Go read it, and come back, I’ll wait. Okay back? Good I was originally just g...
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Rick Astley vs Nine Inch Nails

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 16, 2009, 3:25 pm
Best Rick Roll Ever.
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How many clicks does it take?

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 13, 2009, 9:00 am
I signed up for gdgt despite the fact that I whined about it not supporting OpenID. Here I am. Wee. The first thing I tried to do when I got there was add a gadget to my have list. Makes sense right?...
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I found a bat!

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 12, 2009, 9:20 pm
I was going down to the LRT on Monday, and something was flying around. I thought it must be a swallow or something, I mean, who initially thinks ‘bat’ (except Batman). It was flying a bit...
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22 years in the making

Daniel H. posted an article on - Aug 7, 2009, 10:23 am
From this: To this (goes to Apple trailers page…couldn’t find a good vid on YouTube) So excited
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Cookies for the forgetful

Daniel H. posted an article on - Jul 28, 2009, 8:00 am
When the going gets tough, the tough mess with cookies! Well sort of. I started using Chromium from the Chromium Daily Build PPA yesterday at work. I remembered most of my passwords for things, but o...
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Drastically speed up web browsing

Daniel H. posted an article on - Jul 27, 2009, 7:00 am
Uninstall Firefox Install Chrome There is no step 3 I’m seriously getting sick and tired of Firefox. Chrome for Linux can’t come any faster. When even with only 5 tabs open, it eats over ...
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Worth watching. Twice. Uncle Bob Martin @ RailsConf '09

Daniel H. posted an article on - Jul 25, 2009, 7:00 am
Robert Martin’s “What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too” talk at RailsConf 2009.
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Feedburner fiasco, Part 3

Daniel H. posted an article on - Jul 20, 2009, 3:02 pm
(See Part 2) Well I found the proper ping URL, http://ping.feedburner.google.com/, and it looks like everything is supposedly working as advertised. No doubt I’ll be keeping an eye on things fo...
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Feedburner fiasco, Part 2

Daniel H. posted an article on - Jul 20, 2009, 2:10 pm
(See Part 1) My initial thought was that Feedburner was just getting redirected to itself, but the code is there in the plugin, and does work, but added a ping, so hopefully this actually makes it up...
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Feedburner seems behind the times…

Daniel H. posted an article on - Jul 20, 2009, 1:38 pm
In that, my feed doesn’t get updated fast enough. I had a post go out at 8 AM, then at 8:47 AM, and they both showed up at just after noon. Anybody else experiencing this? I’ll probably...
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