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On Living Sideways 2 Jan 2013 | 10:06 pm
One thing I've been thinking of as the year turns over into another year is the difference between creativity as a goal and creativity as a path. Not to be black and white about things, but I've expe...
Happy New Year 2 Jan 2013 | 04:01 am
I did it! I went for the entire year of 2012 without a single blog post. This was a difficult challenge, but I sat on my pointer fingers and refrained from putting words in a text box for over 12 lon...
Thinking about iterators 7 Oct 2011 | 03:20 pm
Tonight I ended up putting together a visual aid for the each and select array iterators in Ruby. I was thinking, how do you show what is happening when you have called each, or select, on a collectio...
Notes from Quantified Self 2011 5 Jun 2011 | 04:37 pm
It's been a couple of weeks since I got back from the first annual Quantified Self conference, in Mountain View California. This was a gathering of about 400 "quantters": people who self-track and se...
Getting To Familiar 4 Feb 2011 | 05:13 am
I spent last week at a four-day-intensive studio on learning to program for the iphone. It was run by Pragmatic Programmers and I recommend it. I chose to go because I want to learn iphone programmi...
I'm Still Standing 13 Jan 2011 | 10:23 am
Hey all, Last year I wrote a post about how much I liked standing up by myself. I'm updating now b/c I lost the original image, and I've been asked about it since. A couple years ago, I had a peri....
2010 Reflections 1 Jan 2011 | 08:25 am
About six weeks ago, I quit my job. I had a nice, steady, Rails gig here in Chicago that had been a challenge for a while but had gone stagnant. When I was hired, it was clear that their application n...
Birthday Cake 5 Nov 2010 | 01:39 pm
Last year, I made my friend Andrew a cake for his birthday. This year, we're going behind the scenes to see how the cake was built. See the full gallery on Posterous Permalink | Leave a comment »
Integrate Google Event Tracking with JavaScript 1 Jul 2010 | 10:05 pm
This post discusses easy ways to integrate Google Analytics Event Tracking in your website. Event Tracking is a tool that broadens your ability to track user interaction with your website. Prior to ev...
How to set up Cucumber and RSpec for a non-Rails project 31 May 2010 | 11:57 pm
Often times when we use Cucumber and RSpec (and by 'we' I refer to Rails developers, sorry for the narrow focus here), we use them from within a Rails environment. Here are some instructions on how t...
