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Rate My Route on iPhone

Posted March 22, 2011

Been working on the iPhone application for a while now, loaded it up on my actual phone for the first time today! Here are some juicy screen shots of it in action.

 

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Apple Todo.webapp

Posted October 3, 2010

Last night I was struck with an idea, so today I started the coding part and ended up with  a library to pull down (over IMAP) and parse Apple Mail.app formatted todos. Surrounding this library with a light weight Sinatra layer.

Git repo

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JQuery Date/Datetime picker

Posted April 18, 2010

I recently ran across this helpful post on a Merb Datetime picker and it was good, that is until I wanted to use the JQuery Date picker. Well a bit of hacking later we have this:

<%= form_for @person %>
  <%= jquery_date_field :birth_date :label => 'Birthdate' %>
  <%= jquery_datetime_field :birth_d…

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Connecting Linux to a Insignia NS-CL26C LCD TV

Posted February 12, 2010

Recently I had the pleasure of installing Boxee and setting up our media PC.  I had a lot of trouble finding information or posts on people connecting their Insignia TVs to Linux boxes (specifically the NS-CL26C) so I thought I would post any details here.

This is the modeline that gave the closest…

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Upgrade

Posted August 11, 2009
I got a good deal on some RAM and upgraded my home machine to 11GB. Noticeable speed increase. Next step will be to re-mirror the system drive; I unmirrored this at the beginning of the year to install bootcamp, much needed game distraction.  There was a massive noticeable slow down moving to a sing…

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Makers Schedule

Posted July 28, 2009

Ever wonder why it is so hard to stop software development and go to a meeting, why your productivity for the half or whole day was blown by an hour meeting?  Well Paul Graham has and he also proposes an explanation.

If you haven't read any of his other essays they are worth a look at as well.

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Prettier GUI Git on OSX

Posted January 21, 2009

Found GitX and OpenInGitGui today, but OpenInGitGui didn't play well with GitX.  Wth a little hackery it can be friendly.

OpenInGitGui.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/main.scpt in Script Editor and paste this

-- Based loosely on http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1037
-- script was clicked
on run
…

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Merb, Authentication, BasicAuth and trouble (version 1.0.7.1)

Posted January 19, 2009

Putzing around with Merb and it's authentication plugins (merb-auth-core, merb-auth-more, merb-auth-slice-password) trying to get BasicAuth working for a web app.  While setup of the HTML form authentication was easy the BasicAuth didn't appear to work, it would continue to display the form requesti…

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