Lifehacks
A New Look at Development
One thing on my mind more and more recently was the idea of getting a job in what I do during my part time. While working at Westgate much of my spare time at home I’d been slowly learning Ruby on Rails, and liking the core concepts as well as the Ruby language in general. [...]
Sharing Links the Easy Way With Del.icio.us
Chances are you’ve been to some social bookmarking site in the previous two or three years. The idea seemed to come out of nowhere and change the way many of us interact with the web. Before sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit or DZone I honestly can’t remember how I found half the stuff out there. [...]
Routine changes from 2006
It’s time for the compulsory end of the year post about everything that changed in my life. Instead of going too in depth on that front, I’d like to comment on what I think I’ve done this year to make me a better developer. I’d think of it as advice I’d love to have received [...]
Choice between learning and doing
Learning something new isn’t always easy, in fact it’s usually quite a challenge or you’d know it already. When it comes to programming, or anything with computers I can’t imagine learning by any means other than a hands on approach. You never see people become experts without doing, so attempting to learn something without [...]
Who’s reselling my Email?
When entering my email into any field online I’m always worried it’s going to be used by more than that site. It’s just unavoidable now a days not to have your email receive massive amounts of spam, even if you’re careful. But, there is an easy of tracking and even filtering this out! The trick [...]
Programming Update
There is a delight in working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of [...]
