About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
The iPod touch has always been Apple’s odd model out. More than an iPod yet significantly less than than an iPhone. Three years ago, I bought an iPod touch because I wanted the iOS experience without being tied to AT&T. These days the iPhone is available on multiple carriers and the iPod touch finally has …
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Cron needs to be explicitly told which RVM to use, the easiest way to do that is to pretend to open up a bash shell (as all the pre-reqs are loaded by default). Save your afternoon and reuse the following in your crontab: /bin/bash -l -c ‘cd PATH/TO/RAILS/APP && $HOME/.rvm/gems/THE_RVM_RUBY_TO_USE/bin/rake RAILS_ENV=production THE_TAKS:TO_RUN –trace’ for me, …
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Beer: Jamie – Maudite, Garrick – Hofbrauhaus Maibock Planet Kubb Network Update Garrick’s beer judging class Piwik and how awesome it is The most meaningful kubb team statistic is – and how it could impact game play. An inordinate amount of time talking about baseball. Kubb & Koffee #3
This week we worked our way through European Amber Lagers (3A. Vienna Lager, 3B. Oktoberfest), Dark Lager (4A. Dark American Lager, 4B. Munich Dunkel, 4C. Schwarzbier) and Bock (5A. Maibock/Helles Bock, 5B. Traditional Bock, 5C. Doppelbock, 5D. Eisbock) The overwhelming attribute of these 3 styles is a prominent toasty, sweet, and complex malt aroma – …
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@ 1:36:00 Such a fun interview. Eric – thanks for helping spread PlanetKubb.com to the other side of the planet.
Coming out of my third kubb tournament of 2012 and my first 6-player tournament, I’m even more convinced a 6-player kubb team is an awkward number. This year at U.S. Nationals this year Jamie, Jim and I played under the Kubbchucks banner. I was the primary inkastare – for something like 9 hours non-stop. After …
“What’s sad is that when product managers break stuff, these people blame themselves; my pain is abated by anger, theirs amplified by embarrassment.” – Tim Bray This afternoon, I fought with both an iPhone 4 and an Samsung Galaxy S to find the answer to a question both promised to make easy and straight-forward. Neither …
This week’s BJCP class was Light Lager and Pilsners – which is to say, beer I haven’t drank in 15 years. And oh how the quickly the memories returned; the smell of DMS and hormonal college kids in a cramped basement, the epiphany that is the first sip of a Spaten Pils, constantly asking yourself …
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Beer: Garrick‘s drinking his Roggen Brett (with Brettanomyces) and Lakefront Brewery Wisconsinite, Jamie‘s enjoying a Fulton Sweet Child of Vine Dallas Oktoberfest Kubb Tournament (also see the Kubbchucks at 2012 Dallas Oktoberfest Kubb Tournament writeup) Planet Kubb Sites Stapp King Molkky Comments on Dallas sets Jamie went to Iceland
Add this to your default theme’s functions.php function grv_create_default_pages() { // Create New Default Page $args = array( ‘name’ => ‘new-default-page’, ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘showposts’ => 1, ‘caller_get_posts’=> 1 ); $default_page = array( ‘name’ => ‘new default page’, ‘post_title’ => ‘NEW DEFAULT POST TITLE’, ‘post_content’ => ‘lorem ipsum dolor’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, …
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