On a recent episode of The Dev Show Dan and I talked about passwords. In particular, the topic of password hashing came up. I’d like to say up front that I’m not a security guy and most definitely not a cryptographer. However, I don’t have to be because there are much smarter people who have [...]
Rails Reminder: DATE_FORMATS
A friend of mine recently asked me about adding time formats to Rails apps. It’s not completely intuitive on how to add new "default" symbols for date and time formats or to get a list of the built in ones. The API has the built-in lists of constants under DATE_FORMATS but it’s a bit difficult [...]
Stand Up While You Read This!
The New York Times has an article up on standing while you work. People who sit all day without moving around much are at higher risk for medical problems typically associated with obesity. This includes doctors who even do the same job but just walk more during the day: Just to underscore the point that [...]
Using Concentrate for the Pomodoro Technique on OS X
Concentrate is a Mac only app. It lets you do a number of things like block web sites, launch apps, play sounds, etc. Combinations of these things can be configured to go on for varying amounts of time. I use it for the Pomodoro Technique when programming. Corey Haines introduced me to Tomatoist when I [...]
8 Chrome Extensions For Web Developers (Mac too!)
I’ve been using Google Chrome as my default browser ever since 1Password came out with an extension for Chrome. The state of web browsing on the Mac still, unfortunately, leaves something to be desired. However, after using this full time for a little while I can say that I’m really liking it. As a web [...]
The Dev Show Episode 1
Dan Benjamin and I have launched a new podcast called The Dev Show. We aim to talk about new things in the programming community and point out things that may be of interest to developers. The first episode focuses on domain names, mongo db, javascript and a couple of other topics. Check it out! Delicious [...]
Live blogging BizConf Day 2
Day 1 of BizConf was phenomenal and I’m going to try and keep up the live blogging for day 2. I missed the lightning talks last night but heard great things from everyone who went. I’ve got my camera charged up today so I’ll try and get some pictures of the presenters as well. Fair [...]
Liveblogging Bizconf
I’m lucky to attend BizConf so I thought I’d blog about my experience here. I can’t promise to get every presentation here but I’ll try my best. This post will be updated as things happen.
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