The Roly Norman Empire

2009

December

November

October

September 55

August 35

July 26

June 32

May 43

April 35

March 46

February 52

January 72

2008

December 52

November 78

October 74

September 72

August 30

July 106

June 49

May 72

April 115

March 74

February 84

January 90

2007

December 56

November 62

October 49

September 52

August 64

July 19

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February

January

Grrr…still no way to see the current branch(es) a commit is on when viewing commit detail on...

If only there was a simple hosted service that would tell you if Ruby libraries worked on 1.9....

The Tender auto-login via cookie magic never, ever works for me. Does it work for other people?

InfoQ: Book: The Well Grounded Rubyist

Introduction to if

http://is.gd/hBU3 - win98 (all of it) in a git repo, and using branches to test against different...

Making good progress on @runcoderun with @blakewatters this week. Really digging #cucumber for...

How to redirect stderr and stdout to a file...

Well that deploy took about 3 times as long as I expected. Crikey. But at least its done.

Offline gmail? If it works well, I think this is the nail in the coffin for IMAP via Mail.app for a...

Michael Greenly: Multiple Versions of Ruby On...

Michael Greenly: Multiple Versions of Ruby On...

Shades of Gray: Getting Code Ready for Ruby...

my daughter appears to be in need of exorcism today. I expect her to spider-walk across the ceiling...

in 2 years any home audio device without an ipod doc will be obsolete

Flickr Photo Download: How to Choose Chart...

ENHANCE….ENHANCE…. http://tinyurl.com/c8jabs

Seeing my mom join facebook is just weird. Next thing you know she’ll be on twitter. Is...

Can’t Mingle just use markdown? Did they really have to roll their own for everything?...

Can every mac app that uses tabs please just adopt the ⌘+number convention and be done with it? So...

GiovanniStyle, high readability for your...

InfiniteRed - A black OS X Leopard Terminal...

Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code

New CSS Sticky Footer - 2009

Its okay to break the build: http://tinyurl.com/csnwz7

Zero-Downtime Restarts with HAProxy -...

Thinking its about time to switch back to iTerm. I’d like to be able to read dark blue again.

Tests Are Code - Digital Digressions by...

My Git Workflow

Imperative vs Declarative Scenarios in User...

Testing with the help of machinist, forgery,...

MetaSkills.net MultiRuby The MacPorts Way....

Dreading driving in the snow today. Not because of the snow itself, but because I have to deal with...

yo dawg, i heard you like your memes subtle… http://i43.tinypic.com/20fo8o.jpg

Rob Seaman Switching Between Ruby 1.8 & 1.9...

Dr Nic » Future proofing your Ruby code. Ruby...

$200 to replace one tire on our van. I guess new cars have their drawbacks.

jQuery is a Monad « Important Shock

bought a $70 bird feeder tonight. we better get some damn good lookin birds.

On Being A Journeyman Software Craftsman

New Don Caballero is pretty much the definition of nerd metal. Can has ridiculous time signatures?

Where is the Lighthouse FAQ on “I’m locked out of my account for no reason and am trying...

Chef: Suck on my chocolate salty balls

Reading ohai’s source code; part of the newly released chef...

Upgrading git via MacPorts

Feels great to have pair programmed all this week so far. Almost forgot how awesome consistent...

I love living in a state where “artic cold” means the temp will be in the 20s. OH NOES,...

windows-7-vs-ddr-171895a759db7a2d8afe9725b39d5...

How did a new Don Caballero album slip by me?

Insane historical fact of the day: Madagascar was first settled by Indonesians around 300 AD (4000...

Cucumber Backgrounder — cucumber — GitHub

Really wishing zentest was on @github right about now…

congrats to @github crew on their crunchie!

Best Albums of 2008

The Mac speech reader apparently can’t be stopped if you close the original window you started...

Main Page - Vim Tips Wiki - a Wikia wiki

How to remove a git submodule < Flop’s...

Red Hat Magazine | A guide to GNU Screen

My visit to American Apparel - Venture Hacks

Hard music is too hard to classify. Sometimes its hardcore, sometimes its metal, I think I just want...

“The purpose of argument, should not be victory, but progress.”

Polyphasic Sleep: Facts and Myths

Friendly Ruby Objects

A Different Model For Web Services...

Phusion’s DebGen thing sounds like a quick path into dependency hell. Install ruby + rubygems...

twitter-zero, only took about five minutes. RSS is another story, but I’m realizing that...

Rob Seaman Sending CTRL-C to a Subprocess...

Netfilter IPTables Mini Howto - LinodeWiki

The Scary Bits: 2008 in Review - Cinematical

2009 is the year I turn 30. I can tell because I barely got a buzz tonight. Huzzah.