ChatSnapper – Alpha

February 17th, 2010

An early rough cut of a quick project: a ChatRoulette app with screenshots built in.

ChatRoulette, Elevators, and Panopticons

February 17th, 2010

ChatRoulette is blowing up. Mostly with naked dudes, it seems. Let’s try some crowdsourced course-correction.

Cartilage: A Monk Skeleton for DataMapper

August 28th, 2009

I wanted to bootstrap a Monk project using DataMapper. It was very easy, so I extracted the skeleton and put it up on GitHub.

Lazybones: A Monk Skeleton for CouchDB and Sinatra

August 27th, 2009

I created a skeleton for MonkRb that leverages CouchDB and Sinatra.

Don’t Stop Supporting IE6

August 6th, 2009

Planning to drop support for IE 6? Instead, redefine “support” and stay positive.

Social Media = Advertising Honeypot

August 5th, 2009

Twitter and Facebook are be honeypots for brands. We reach in and pull them out when we want, but otherwise keep them at bay.

The Emperor’s New API

July 9th, 2009

If you’re adding a REST API to your site, you’re probably doing something wrong. Maybe.

SproutCore Article on O’Reilly InsideRIA Blog

August 13th, 2008

I’m now blogging for InsideRIA.

DataMapper/Merb Ambiguous SQLite Error

July 27th, 2008

If you get an error such as:

near ")": syntax error

Check to see if you have any models declaring themselves as DataMapper::Resource but WITHOUT any property declarations.

Twitter-Free Fridays

July 18th, 2008

I complied with corporate mandate and wrote a post about Twitter-Free Fridays over on The Barbarian Group blog.

iTunes U Rules

January 6th, 2008

I am already fearing the point at which the velocity with which I consume content allows me to see the bottom of the proverbial barrel.

ActiveRecord to_xml Security Strategy

November 13th, 2007

As noted on blog.wolfman.com, there is a security problem when using the scaffolded respond_to set-up. By default, all columns in a given record will be displayed.

Freaks and Geeks

November 6th, 2007

Most cultural classification systems to which I’ve been privy would probably qualify me as a member of the nerd family.

How to Start a Web Site, Part 2

March 7th, 2007

In How to Start a Web Site, Part 1, I lightly outlined the process for obtaining a domain name, starting a shared hosting account, and setting DNS servers.

How to Start a Web Site, Part 1

February 28th, 2007

Over the past year or so, I’ve had several friends ask for assistance in starting a site. Often enough, the cheap bastards ask for hosting or free design as well. Some people…