I find myself wondering that quite a bit (*.dev.java.net sites, I’m looking at you). I had a couple of hours to spare, so I put together this page :
http://slowforeveryone.com/
I only measure load time from a fast internet connection on my hosting provider’s server, so most users will experience a slower load time than is [...]
EDIT : See update at the bottom
Ever wished there was one twitter account where you could follow everything #git related? Well, now there is!
I was looking for a way to list – in the twitter sense – everything git related, but found there wasn’t really an easy way to do that. So I put together [...]
Working on an Android app this week, I wanted to add some resources in the assets directory for use in a WebView as described in the SDK docs. I loaded up my project in NetBeans with the cool nbandroid NetBeans plugin for Android development. I built the application, loaded it up in the [...]
Ever since I signed up for Facebook a few months ago I’ve been bummed that their ‘Mobile’ application doesn’t support my carrier (T-Mobile). Since I’ve got a pretty basic phone (Nokia 6133), I couldn’t install a Facebook application on the device either. (For those not familiar with it, their Mobile app allows you to upload [...]
EDIT 2: My patch to the Sinatra Book has been accepted. The instructions below can now be found in the book itself.
EDIT : I’ve created a page on the dreamhost wiki that includes this information.
There is a lot of good information on how to run Sinatra on Dreamhost, but after following all the excellent advice, [...]
I’ve been developing a few rails applications recently and wanted to test them in IE. A quick google search turned up this excellent article. While that writeup (and its comments) has some excellent content, it is a little dated. Thanks to advances in VirtualBox, I was also able to reduce the number of steps required.
This [...]
I submitted my first patch to a rails related project yesterday, woot! A trivial fix, but it’s a start .
For a recent project I had a need to receive emails (actually MMSs, but that’ll be the subject of a future post) in a Rails application. My requirements for the solution were:
Shouldn’t require root access: I’m deploying this app to a shared hosting service on which I don’t have root.
Shouldn’t require firing up the Rails [...]
I recently got stuck in really bad traffic on 520 on my way to work. Bored, and moving at exactly 0 MPH, I sent my boss a picture message of the parking lot the bridge had become as a way of telling him I’d be late. When I got to work, I discovered that his [...]