April 2011
3 posts
January 2011
3 posts
JavaScript ( (__ = !$ + $)[+$] + ({} + $)[_/_]... →
dhotson:
Clever hack.
via HN
An Open Letter to the Erlang Beginner (or... →
November 2010
2 posts
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New Gem: HT (Hash Templating) →
While writing some code the other day, I needed to build up a hash based on various inputs and pass it to some API call. Although the inputs were different for each case the final hash passed in…
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Mongomatic: New & Old →
Mongomatic 0.7.0 was released this week. Since the release of 0.6.0 several new features have been added. In this post I’ll provide some examples of some Mongomatic features, ones existing from the…
October 2010
2 posts
August 2010
2 posts
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On Mongomatic and Sinatra, Padrino and Rails 3... →
If you have played with Mongomatic, by now you’ve probably started using it with your favorite Ruby web framework. Recently, I released sinatra-mongomatic and mongomatic-rails3, gems adding…
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Introducing Mongomatic →
Mongomatic is a Ruby object mapper for MongoDB that aims to be simple, have minimal dependencies and adhere to native Mongo conventions. Mongomatic brings you just close enough to the Ruby…
June 2010
10 posts
Hampton's Ruby Survey 2010 →
I completed it. Just some notes: I wish I could check both RSpec and Cucumber because I use them equally. Same thoughts on what I feel is most important to test.
mattonrails:
Rubyists: be nice and fill it out. :)
Firefox 4: CSS3 calc() →
This is awesome. Hope it gets adopted by other browsers in the future
dhotson:
Oh calc(), where have you been all my life?
Teaching your children properly about stereotypes
Scene: Lady and her child are at the dog park as I arrive
Lady: [Child's Name Redacted], stay away from that dog it will bite you
Me: I'm sorry but I couldn't help but overhear what you said to you daughter. Did you by chance contemplate the lesson you are teaching her? Do you also instruct her that all muslims are terrorists, all black men are gang members or that since I look jewish (and am) that I'm cheap? All of which are false. Stereotypes are based in some fact but are horrendously over-extrapolated. They are not in themselves fact. You should instead teach your daughter about your ignorance and stupidity. It so happens my dog is very sweet and just because you watched a special on television about Pit Bulls does not mean mine is aggressive.
Lady: (Looks at me in disbelief yet has no response).
Lady and Daughter: (They Leave)
Me: That's a great way to raise your child
Apple's HTML5 and Web Standards website →
dhotson:
html5watch:
Apple just launched a website which demoes some great examples of rich webpages made using standards-based technologies. A fantastic resource.
Just in case it isn't clear.
fuckyeahcomputerscience:
COMPUTER SCIENCE != TECH SUPPORT.
We are not here to help you if your computer suddenly crashes on you, it is not part of our job description to tell you what video editing program to use, we are not obligated to tell you how to convert that file into that format.
Please think about that before asking us anything.
May 2010
26 posts
Facebook Privacy Policy Longer than US... →
Scene: Its 7am, I have just woke up, tossed on a zip up and let Nola out the hotel room. I don't walk down with her since the grass is right outside and she is a big girl. Nola, post-pee, looks up and sees woman 50 ft away. she looks at me and looks the back.
Woman: Shoo. Shoo (accompanied by flying hand motions)
Nola: (Goes bolting towards woman)
Woman: *Screams*
Me: Nola get back here
Woman: *Screams*
Nola: (Now out of site has chased this poor woman around the corner of the hotel)
Me: Nola, get back here
Nola: (turns the corner and looks at me)
Woman: (Runs and jumps onto raised garden in hotel parking lot)
Nola: (bolts after woman, again this time circling the raised garden)
Woman: *Screams* Shoo Shoo
Me: Nola get over here right now!
Nola: (Turns around and starts walking towards me)
Woman: Shoo! Shoo!
Me: If you keep talking to the fucking dog its going to come back, it thinks you want to play until you show it your scared out of your mind. Its early, please shut up!!
Nola: *Bark* (walks towards me discouraged)
End Scene
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Things I've Noticed in My Travels through Texas
Disclaimer: I only drove on I-35 from Oklahoma City to Dallas and US 114/287 from Dallas to Wichita Falls and ultimately Amarillo.
People here really like driving the new mustang
Texas roadways are impeccably marked. Really other states should follow. Their roads just make sense. When you drive enough you start to appreciate this.
Texas is HUGE. I mean if your from Cali maybe this...
Hofstadter's Law
Agh it was this book that was stolen from me!!! I need to find a book store to get a new copy at.
fuckyeahcomputerscience:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
I Now Know What It Feels Like to be Robbed
And it really makes me want to find the guy and well…the interweb is publics so I will keep my thoughts to myself since finding the man is unlikely. The hotel parking lot, adjacent to both the hotel and the Ford center, home of the Thunder, has no cameras. The following was stolen:
Mac Book Pro
Asus Eee PC
3 Software books and my marked up copy of Godel, Escher Bach (this I am really...
Yes!!! Oklahoma is not one of the states affected by the E. Coli lettuce recall. I had a salad earlier today!
A fast, fuzzy, full-text index using Redis →
Redis is an awesome database for implementing different types of IR. Really cool someone got around to this.
dhotson:
Not bad. It turns out that implementing a full-text database on top of Redis is relatively simple. Looks like it’s pretty easy to build an inverted index using Redis’s set data structure.
“No bitch on arm. Just my words and my stoner charm.”
– Kid Cudi
“Google Code and Sourceforge are now officially the geocities of open source.”
– Subversion Write Support - GitHub (via dhotson)
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Billboard
I wish. I was driving and it caught my eye at the last second. I can tell you where to drive to find it though hahaha. And we said goodbye sorta….on lil 5. you probably just can’t remember.
nicoles:
i need a picture of this!!!!!
jrwest:
Just saw a road board:
Bungee Jumping for all Congressmen. Free. No strings attached. Vote them out in nov. 2010.
Billboard
Just saw a road board:
Bungee Jumping for all Congressmen. Free. No strings attached. Vote them out in nov. 2010.
clientsfromhell:
Client: “I would like to have our home page come up with some information in a hockey puck that flies around the screen. I’d like the user to have to chase the puck with a hockey stick for a cursor and whack it to let them in the site.”
Me: “I’m going to do everything in my power to talk you out of doing that.”
Man: why do women always feel the need to fix things that don't need fixing?
Woman: because, it makes us feel all warn inside
Man: so does Scotch but it doesn't cost you a house.