Last night I signed up for Clicky Web Analytics, and looking around their site I saw that they offer market share stats for the major browsers (IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera,) both in general, and split by browser version. Looking at Chrome’s stats, I noticed something i … | Continue reading
Now that Piictu finally launched and is out of beta, I want to write a bit about one of my favorite things I worked on as the front-end web developer there, which is our implementation of an infinite scrolling page improved by the use of the HTML5 History API, the problem it trie … | Continue reading
These photos seem to be all over the internet, but the story is not. In 2010, French customs officers at the Rochambeau airport in Cayenne, French Guiana after noticing some suspicious bulges, conducted an intimate pat-down of a Dutch tourist and found some tiny parcels in some v … | Continue reading
After almost four years on Tumblr, I’ve decided it’s time to switch blog platforms. My blog now runs on Octopress and Heroku. The reason I’m switching, and the reason I was using Tumblr in the first place, are a bit of a long story. I used to have a real blog, one I built myself … | Continue reading
I'm happy to announce that my iPad music learning startup Etude has been acquired by Steinway & Sons. When they approached me about the idea of working together, it seemed like an odd idea. What would a piano company in New York want with an iPad app? It's not the usual acquisiti … | Continue reading
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In the previous account of poultry in space, I related the story of how chicken embryos were launched aboard Discovery STS-29, but I did not make it to the story of birds (ex ova) in space. Despite claims to the contrary, someone did indeed try to launch birds into space, and the … | Continue reading
I’m generally sceptical about alternatives of tools that work just fine like IRB. And I really like IRB. So why Pry? And why everywhere? Because Pry features blew my mind. When I wrote about IRB customization, I was doing what I always do when I like a tool: customize it in order … | Continue reading
This is a story of how an eighth grade imagination and Kentucky Fried Chicken launched chickens eggs into the the final frontier. | Continue reading
As usual, my considerations grouped by chapter: Introduction # The book starts with an introduction to the reasons behind BDD. It’s a cool introduction, short and clear. It’s very useful if these topics are new for you. | Continue reading
I wrote this post just to show how it’s possible to get a perfectly working form with multiple files upload within a few minutes. If you need to implement multiple file attachments to a given object with only one form quickly, this example could help you. | Continue reading
With the most recent release (1.5.3, last week) App Engine's Python API for Memcache has added a new feature, Compare-And-Set . This feature... | Continue reading
In 2009 Tantek Çelik published a draft of a new calendar with 5-day-weeks solving issues with the Gregorian one. I am not convinced, that this is a useful way to re-structure the calendar. Back in the days we set up a calendar for our RPG world together with Sebastian Gerstl and … | Continue reading
The Mozilla developers have received some critics for their decision to remove the version number from future Firefox releases. Many other open source projects, like GIMP, are speeding up their release cycles as well, al… | Continue reading
And here I go again. After three years using Sweetcron as my CMS of choice, and one year of WordPress before that, I once more go back to the drawing board and start everything from scratch. After I got into college, I didn’t have any more time to write, and social agreggators we … | Continue reading
And here I go again. After three years using Sweetcron as my CMS of choice, and one year of WordPress before that, I once more go back to the drawing board and start everything from scratch. After I got into college, I didn't have any more time to write, and social agreggators we … | Continue reading
This morning I had a chat with the students at Google's CAPE program. Since I wrote up what I wanted to say I figured I might as well blog ... | Continue reading