… and it reminded me of everything I hope for.
The man in question had serious physical disabilities. His left foot pointed almost directly inward. His legs didn’t seem to be oriented in the way that yours or mine are. I suspect his spine didn’t curve in a typical direction either.
He walked forcefully, arms flailing out to the sides. His feet stamped their way into the concrete. With every step you feared he might topple forwards, but he didn’t.
A quick listing of some of my favorite iPad apps, which I hope new iPad owners may find useful.
Reading Early Edition 2 A newspaper style feed reader. This is the best app of this genre on any platform. It does crash from time to time, but not enough to be particularly annoying. My recommendation is to not put your full list of feeds into it. Instead, put a selected subset of them that would work well if you were reading them in a physical newspaper.
If you know Backbone.js and are interested in 5, or more, hours of freelance work every week, I want to talk to you.
We’ve got a number of apps in the pipeline and need someone to help code them. The current one needs Backbone.js and PhoneGap (iOS) experience. There will be plenty of front-end work in the upcoming apps as well as Ruby on Rails, or Node.js tasks if you’ve got the skills for those too.
There are many ways to get specific files from another git branch into your current git branch (overwriting the ones in your current branch), but this is the only method I’ve been able to find to merge those files into your branch en-masse. With this method you’ll be able to pull in any file, or files based on the name of the file or containing folder. If you need to merge files in multiple folders on different subdirectories you can simply rerun step two with a pattern that matches each of the different portions of your tree that you wish to merge.
There’s a petition on Change.org right now urging people to “Tell Ticketmaster: Stop hijacking fans’ rights!”
The short version is that person behind the petition (Nathan Hubbard) is upset that Ticketmaster has begun to tie the purchased ticket to the purchaser of the ticket. Nathan feels that since you bought the ticket you should be able to resell it, and that this is just a “ploy” by Ticketmaster to make more money by handling the resale of the tickets themselves.
There are a ton of good OS X apps out there. These are the ones that I really appreciate, and think you ought to check out too.
Please note that this was written on Feb. 2nd 2012, and that software changes at a very rapid pace.
Writing Apps Scrivener If you’re serious about writing, or writing anything significant (book, screenplay, thesis, research paper, etc.), there is only one app to consider, and Scrivener is it.
The Problem Most people only track their time when they are billing by the hour, and most people aren’t billing by the hour. As a result, most people don’t track their time.
Now, you can try to bootstrap a new business or product without time tracking, but you’re doing yourself a great disservice if you do. The problem is that we always think we can get more done than we really have time for, and we inevitably think we’ll have more time to work on things than we really do.
You can tell weather or not someone really “gets” unit testing by asking them one simple question, “Do you use mock objects?” Almost invariably, they will say “no”. Even people who have totally gotten the testing religion. It’s like watching someone pray to a statue of Jesus; totally oblivious to the fact that Jesus himself is standing four feet away reading a book.
This is partially due to the fact that most geeks don’t actually know what a unit test is.
I interview a fair number of geeks every year and usually spend my alotted time going over one programming challenge. Lately I’ve been looking for a new one that was simple, but still big enough to give me a glimpse into their thinking. I think I’ve found it.
Why I Like This I really like this question because:
A good solution involves recursion but you could approach it in multiple ways.
There are two good reasons to serve Octopress from a self-hosted git repo.
It provides you with an off-site backup in case your local copies go up in flames. It gives you an environment where you can integrate secondary scripts and libraries that allow you to do things like e-mail posts to Octopress. git provides a very efficient, and atomic, means of uploading your files. Complicating factors:
Not all ISPs have ssh access or the latest version of ruby, and may not have git or Bundlr installed.
