September 2010
2 posts
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write...”
– Martin Fowler
August 2010
8 posts
Slow it Up →
Pop songs slowed down so much that they become ambient music.
July 2010
2 posts
“When the Lisa team was pushing to finalize their software in 1982, project...”
– http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/
How to fix the directory color of the ls command...
It is much easier on my eyes to have a terminal with a dark background and light colored text. However, on Mac OS X the ls command displays directories as dark blue. Dark blue is almost impossible to read on a dark background. The ls command on Mac OS X does not support the —color option.
So my solution is to install a better ls. Here are the steps:
(1) Install Homebrew (if you haven’t...
March 2010
2 posts
Realtime Web Visits @thisismedium →
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
1 post
1 tag
Node.js Real Time Activity Monitor (without a...
A couple weeks ago, Makoto Inoue wrote a great article highlighting some of the interesting things going on with node.js. In that article, he created an online activity monitor that made use of the HTML 5 Websocket. Since few browsers support websockets (and the fact that I needed an excuse to play around with Node), I wrote another activity monitor example that uses AJAX long polling instead of a...
November 2009
4 posts
Google Commerce Search →
The new Google commerce search is ideal for ecommerce projects but I wish they would have included shopper reviews. With pricing starting at $50,000 per year I think they should throw in the whole shopping cart too.
All your base belongs to the google →
Google launches dashboard service that tells you everything they want you to know that they know about you.
