About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
So, you’ve set up your Rails app to present different views to authenticated people verses non. Now, how do you test functionality for the authenticated people? Seems silly to have your tests sign in before checking whatever it is you want them to check. Well, pass the session data in the test as a hash. …
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Ed Kohler draws a 2 mile circle around his house and identifies all the places within biking distance. Walkscore.com quantifies and ranks the amenities within 3 miles of your house on a scale of 0 – 100. Suprising results at least for me – the Roseville Apple Store is bikeable at 2.48 miles away.
Sun’s new download service launched yesterday – a project I’ve been working on for 18 months or so. Big congrats to Gary Zellerbach and the rest of the project team on this milestone. If you’d like to compare and contrast, the initial four products (of the 1000s being migrated) are: Solaris™ Operating System for x86 …
First off, if you can avoid reinstalling MySQL on OS X – by all means do. Whatever the reason is that you want to do a reinstall, it’s not a good one1. Just buck up and work around whatever issue you have. It’s not as bad as what follows. Let’s say you decide to reinstall …
In Jonathan Coulton’s Portal post, I find 6 things very interesting. He: was commissioned (I’m assuming) to write a song for a video game ($$$) likes the video game (is this an ad or a recommendation to his fans?) includes the lyrics in the post includes the chords in the post thanks the video game …
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“Would you pay an extra $2.99 for a vanity code, containing your favorite four-letter word?” – Mike, Rogue Amoeba Almost feels like an entry from Marginal Revolution’s ‘Markets in Everything’.
We’ve Got Money, What We Need is You A New Dad’s Family Handbook The first time around, we picked up the stereotypical new parent books. If any of you are having your first child – you only need one of those books. Go to the bookstore, page through them all, buy the one that makes …
A couple years back, after ‘getting’ the idea of having all my favorite audio with me at a moment’s click – I had grown bored of my then new 40gb iPod. A few minutes of searching and I found Doc Searls link about the iPod Platform. Suddenly, I was neck-deep in podcasting. Even in those …
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If we actually want to reduce waste and encourage reuse, retailers need to be responsible for disposing of the packaging and waste from the products they sell.
In Hometown Tales #189, Gene describes a pretty tasty variation of the Juicy Lucy It might be the first Jucy Lucy Resturant east of Georgia, but I’ll leave final judgement to Ed, Dave, Scott, and the other experts.