|
When Marco Arment released The Magazine in early October, the announcement attracted the attention of many prominent internet writers , all of which spoke very enthusiastically about Marco’s magazine initiative. A biweekly publication released through iOS’s Newsstand, The Magazine featured articles from Guy English, Jason Snell, Alex Payne, and Michael Lopp in just the first issue . The second issue attracted work from John Si..
|
|
Reverse Engineering Startup Press: How and Why TechCrunch Covered My Launch
-
kevinohashi.com
-
13 years ago
-
eng
After my startup 's launch was covered by TechCrunch I was asked by a lot of people how it happened. People wanted copies of my pitch to learn from. It was as if I had discovered some arcane secret. But I didn't believe that. All I had done was read a couple blog posts from other startups with copies of their pitches (Thanks Jason L. Baptiste , Vinicius Vacanti , Leo Widrich ) and one journalist who shared his thoughts (Thanks Sean B....
|
|
Reverse Engineering Startup Press: How and Why TechCrunch Covered My Launch
-
kevinohashi.com
-
13 years ago
-
eng
After my startup 's launch was covered by TechCrunch I was asked by a lot of people how it happened. People wanted copies of my pitch to learn from. It was as if I had discovered some arcane secret. But I didn't believe that. All I had done was read a couple blog posts from other startups with copies of their pitches (Thanks Jason L. Baptiste , Vinicius Vacanti , Leo Widrich ) and one journalist who shared his thoughts (Thanks Sean B....
|
|
Reverse Engineering Startup Press: How and Why TechCrunch Covered My Launch
-
kevinohashi.com
-
13 years ago
-
eng
After my startup 's launch was covered by TechCrunch I was asked by a lot of people how it happened. People wanted copies of my pitch to learn from. It was as if I had discovered some arcane secret. But I didn't believe that. All I had done was read a couple blog posts from other startups with copies of their pitches (Thanks Jason L. Baptiste , Vinicius Vacanti , Leo Widrich ) and one journalist who shared his thoughts (Thanks Sean B....
|
|
Reverse Engineering Startup Press: How and Why TechCrunch Covered My Launch
-
kevinohashi.com
-
13 years ago
-
eng
After my startup 's launch was covered by TechCrunch I was asked by a lot of people how it happened. People wanted copies of my pitch to learn from. It was as if I had discovered some arcane secret. But I didn't believe that. All I had done was read a couple blog posts from other startups with copies of their pitches (Thanks Jason L. Baptiste , Vinicius Vacanti , Leo Widrich ) and one journalist who shared his thoughts (Thanks Sean B....
|
|
visible close buttons on every firefox tab (including the last one)
-
purpleidea.com
-
13 years ago
-
eng
After hacking around with a few firefox internals the other day , I decided there was another little annoyance that I had… When I’m acting insane and using my mouse to open and close tabs , the per tab close button disappears when there is only one tab left! This is apparently a feature , and while I can respect it as a default, it certainly isn’t an option for me. Thankfully, there are a lot of common minded individuals on the net, and t..
|
|
visible close buttons on every firefox tab (including the last one)
-
purpleidea.com
-
13 years ago
-
eng
After hacking around with a few firefox internals the other day , I decided there was another little annoyance that I had… When I’m acting insane and using my mouse to open and close tabs , the per tab close button disappears when there is only one tab left! This is apparently a feature , and while I can respect it as a default, it certainly isn’t an option for me. Thankfully, there are a lot of common minded individuals on the net, and t..
|
|
In order to visually enhance my temperature logging I added some Javascript that computes sunrise and sunset for the 24h, 28h, weekly and monthly chart. Then I use this information to plot vertical bands on the chart indicating the effects of the sun on temperatures (and humidities): To add the bands to your Highchart just get the sunrise and sunset value for a particular day and push it on the xAxis.
|
|
A couple of days ago I wrote about how to build a simple and non intrusive AJAX status with CoffeeScript in RubyOnRails .
|
|
https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/GAC+Early+Warnings Some interesting reading ahead for people interested in internet policy and domain names. A couple fun stats: Country with the Most Objections: Australia (90) Most Objectionable gTLD: Africa (17 countries objected)
|
|
Firefox has a “new tab” speed dial type page available. I use it as my homepage (hint, use: about:newtab) and find it very useful for launching my often used favourites. My one gripe is that it only shows you a default grid of 3 x 3. You can easily change that if you look in the secret preferences. Open a new tab and type in: about:config , accept the warning, and then search for: browser.newtabpage.rows and browser.newtabpage.colu..
|
|
Firefox has a “new tab” speed dial type page available. I use it as my homepage (hint, use: about:newtab) and find it very useful for launching my often used favourites. My one gripe is that it only shows you a default grid of 3 x 3. You can easily change that if you look in the secret preferences. Open a new tab and type in: about:config , accept the warning, and then search for: browser.newtabpage.rows and browser.newtabpage.colu..
|
|
Finalmente ho trovato il tempo per aggiornare Il Piccolo Libro di MongoDB . Grazie ai contributi di Andrea Rabbaglietti e Michele Zonca sono stati corretti molti errori sparsi qui e là nel testo. Ho approfittato dell’occasione per ritoccare il formato grafico allineandolo alla versione più recente dell’edizione inglese. Se avete già scaricato il libro vi consiglio di rifarlo: la nuova edizione è decisamente più leggibile.
|
|
Absolutely hilarious. I remember seeing a series of tweets to this effect last year around Christmas, but couldn’t find any of those tweets for this post given Twitter’s 3200 tweet archive limit . Truly unfortunate. Permalink.
|
|
Hello planet puppet readers! Brice Figureau [1] who runs planet puppet has just syndicated my blog, so thanks go out to him. To all readers, I hope you enjoy my content, and please don’t be shy to comment and let me know if there are particular subjects or posts that I should elaborate on. I’ve got a whack of technical posts in the archives, so feel free to browse and let me know what’s good!
|
|
Hello planet puppet readers! Brice Figureau [1] who runs planet puppet has just syndicated my blog, so thanks go out to him. To all readers, I hope you enjoy my content, and please don’t be shy to comment and let me know if there are particular subjects or posts that I should elaborate on. I’ve got a whack of technical posts in the archives, so feel free to browse and let me know what’s good!
|
|
The controversial touchdown during the third quarter of this afternoon’s Houston-Detroit football game left me shaking my head for the rest of the day. Marc Sessler summed it up perfectly in his article Justin Forsett, Houston Texans gifted a touchdown : the Texans certainly were gifted a touchdown, and unfortunately that touchdown gave them the edge they needed to beat Detroit in overtime. Permalink.
|
|
Primo aggiornamento per Cerberus, lo strumento per la convalida dei dizionari Python che ho rilasciato qualche tempo fa. Ora è possibile estendere la lista dei tipi di dato da convalidare, aggiungendone di propri. Per esempio nella nostra REST API (che usa Cerberus per la validazione) uso questa tecnica per implementare e convalidare il tipo ObjectId, tipico di MongoDB. I dettagli li trovate nella documentazione.
|
|
Mercurial loads a bunch of different configuration files and overlays their values on top of each other. The hgrc man page shows the order in which these files are loaded. I encountered an issue recently where I knew that hg was using an erroneous setting but I had no idea where the setting was coming from. The magic answer is hg --debug showconfig This will output all the current settings, along with the name of the file that it ..
|
|
Lately Ive been getting questions about some of the applications I use. So, here is quick post on web applications I love, and that make my life easier.
|
|
As I mentioned in We’re Live , I wrote a slick content management system designed to streamline the publication of my content to the web. Serving as a nod of acknowledgment to Marco Arment’s efforts in developing his very own CMS dubbed Second Crack, I call my system First Crack. In this post I will talk about why I chose to write my own content management system instead of using an existing engine — a topic that will stretch to encompass ..
|
|
Lecture 1.5B: Business Models and Customer Development
-
myownfortune.wordpress.com
-
13 years ago
-
eng
Despite sharing a name, 1.5B is a very different lecture from 1.5A. I’d say it talks mostly about how we think we know things but we don’t and how we can improve our guesses. There are many subjects covered quickly, so I’ll dive right in… Guesses According to Steve, when we first enter a new […]
|
|
This week we had nettle tea. Unlike the other teas which have long, fancy, eloquent descriptions, this tea just plainly stated its ingredients. I.e. vitamin C, vitamin D, iron, magnesium etc.
|
|
This week we had nettle tea. Unlike the other teas which have long, fancy, eloquent descriptions, this tea just plainly stated its ingredients. I.e. vitamin C, vitamin D, iron, magnesium etc.
|
|
A fun idea came to me a while back: using x86 assembly, could I implement a basic if/else statement that runs arbitrary code without using any conditional instructions? If you care to try out the challenge, I'd recommend using a language that provides low level memory access and then taking a quick break from reading further. Determining Inequality The first part of the problem that we need to consider is this: is there any way to tell that..
|
|
This week has been a busy one for a hacker-nomad . Weekend in Paris for the JS.everywhere conference, then on Monday a talk at the Hamburg JavaScript meetup. And now I’m in Helsinki. Slush , the conference I’m attending, is the biggest start-up event in Nordic countries. But even at that, it seems the Jolla announcements of today have been able to hijack most of the buzz around the event. Thanks to the kind invitation from the Jolla....
|
|
Dan Benjamin’s recent announcement that both John Siracusa and Marco Arment would draw their run on 5by5 to a close during the month of December gave me the final push I needed to finally publish this blog. After having spent just over two years listening to these truly brilliant co-hosts discuss everything from TiVO to toasters and Journey and The App Store to artis-anal coffee methods and Fox News, what better way to open my new blog....
|
|
I’m working on some fancy puppet “code”, and I realized recursion could be very useful. I decided to try out a little hack to see if I could get it to work. I’ll jump right into the code: #!/usr/bin/puppet define recursion( $count ) { notify { "count-${count}" : } $minus1 = inline_template( '<%= count.to_i - 1 %>' ) if "${minus1}" == '0' { notify { 'done counting!' : ..
|
|
I’m working on some fancy puppet “code”, and I realized recursion could be very useful. I decided to try out a little hack to see if I could get it to work. I’ll jump right into the code: #!/usr/bin/puppet define recursion( $count ) { notify { "count-${count}" : } $minus1 = inline_template( '<%= count.to_i - 1 %>' ) if "${minus1}" == '0' { notify { 'done counting!' : ..
|
|
In my last post, Getting Started on WordPress.com, Tumblr, or Squarespace , I briefly touched on an important design principle towards the end of the article, where I cautioned against choosing a theme that did not showcase your work to the fullest extent possible. I did not, however, explain my reasons for this caution. In the beginning I considered design to be of paramount importance. Even more so, in fact, than the content itself. As t..
|
|
Hey everybody, my name is Zachary Szewczyk . I am an eighteen-year-old writer and programmer, aspiring designer, and general computer geek working my way through high school. Some of you may recognize my name from a past blog or once-popular article, but by and large I am unknown on the internet. As I begin to write more and work through the extensive backlog of article topics I have gathered throughout the past few years though, I plan to....
|
|
How's everyone doing? I'm doing okay. It's a Monday. Hope you're doing okay too. Surviving Sandy aftermath, school, work, and whatever other forms of oppression you may be under. I don't have anything pretty to show for the past... wow, it's been three weeks. I've been working on a very lofty addition to Lemma's feature bullet list. And that is Mac and Linux support , via the awesome MonoGame project. Don't get too excited. There i..
|
|
All good sysadmins know about using tail -f to follow a log file. I use this all the time to follow /var/log/messages and my gluster logs in particular. Maybe everyone already knows this, but it deserves a PSA: after a certain amount of time (~days) it seems that new messages don’t appear! What happens by default is that tail -f follows the file descriptor , not the file name , so when your log files get rotated, the file descri..
|
|
All good sysadmins know about using tail -f to follow a log file. I use this all the time to follow /var/log/messages and my gluster logs in particular. Maybe everyone already knows this, but it deserves a PSA: after a certain amount of time (~days) it seems that new messages don’t appear! What happens by default is that tail -f follows the file descriptor , not the file name , so when your log files get rotated, the file descri..
|
|
I recently got asked by a friend and former co-worker how I write SQL. At first this caught me by surprise and I assumed there was nothing different, but after a few additional comments on it, it became clear most people have no concept for creating clean readable SQL. So without further adieu here’s how I write SQL, with a built up example query. First let’s understand an example schema: # \dt Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+---....
|
|
I recently got asked by a friend and former co-worker how I write SQL. At first this caught me by surprise and I assumed there was nothing different, but after a few additional comments on it, it became clear most people have no concept for creating clean readable SQL. So without further adieu here’s how I write SQL, with a built up example query. First let’s understand an example schema: # \dt Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+---....
|
|
E niente, è un articolo così importante che mi sono procurato dall’autore il permesso di curarne la traduzione. Solo che non trovo il tempo per farla la traduzione, quindi vi passo direttamente l’originale. In MongoDB Gotchas & How To Avoid Them Russel Smith raccoglie una decina di preziosi consigli che non potete assolutamente perdervi se state pensando di usare MongoDB in produzione.
|
actionhero-client is a nodeJS package to allow a remote nodeJS app to connect to and consume an actionHero API.
|