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AnandTech - The Apple iPad Review (2012)

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:22:20 +0200

AnandTech - The Apple iPad Review (2012):

AnandTech’s very detailed review of the new iPad.

There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) | Derek Sivers

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:31:00 +0200

There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) | Derek Sivers

CSS tip: Spot unsized images during development - (37signals)

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:43:54 +0200

CSS tip: Spot unsized images during development - (37signals):

Then any images without width and height attributes will be drawn with a red border so they’re easy to spot.

Running PDFKit on Heroku

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 +0200

If you try to run PDFKit on Heroku you will run into a problem with starting a request to the stylesheets from within a request - thin can’t handle that.

Instead of running the PDFKit middleware, you’ll need to add a pdf format in your respond_to block.

First, register PDF as a mime-type in config/initializers/mime_types.rb:

Mime::Type.register "application/pdf", :pdf

Next, create the responder. The trick is to render the view you want to use to a string, create a PDFKit object from that, and add stylesheet paths instead of loading them through the problematic separate request.

format.pdf do
  kit = PDFKit.new(render_to_string(:template => "controller/view.html",
                                    :layout => "layout.html"))
  # stylesheets in tmp because I'm using compass
  kit.stylesheets << Rails.root.join('tmp', 'stylesheets', 'style.css').to_s
  render :text => kit.to_pdf
end

Next, you need to make sure that all partials are called as render :partial => 'partial.html' since render_to_string doesn’t know the proper format then.

ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack - igvita.com

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:45:58 +0200

ZeroMQ: Modern & Fast Networking Stack - igvita.com:

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could abstract some of the low-level details of different socket types, connection handling, framing, or even routing? This is exactly where the ZeroMQ (ØMQ/ZMQ) networking library comes in: “it gives you sockets that carry whole messages across various transports like inproc, IPC, TCP, and multicast; you can connect sockets N-to-N with patterns like fanout, pubsub, task distribution, and request-reply”. That’s a lot buzzwords, so lets dissect some of these concepts in more detail.

Frank Chimero: There is a Horse in the Apple Store

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:41:55 +0200

Frank Chimero: There is a Horse in the Apple Store:

There is a horse in the Apple Store and no one sees it but me.

I think, “Why?” What is the villain here that blinds all of these people to this situation? Am I nuts for thinking this is exceptional? Does anyone else see this? Did I accidentally drop acid and not realize? I must take a photo….

Stuff I love: Muji Chronotebook — Jack Cheng

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:08:16 +0200

Stuff I love: Muji Chronotebook — Jack Cheng:

This is how I feel about buying apps - The Oatmeal

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:57:20 +0200

This is how I feel about buying apps - The Oatmeal

ColorBlendy - Blend colors with different modes like multiply, overlay, dodge.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:54:32 +0200

ColorBlendy - Blend colors with different modes like multiply, overlay, dodge.

Simplicity Is Highly Overrated | Don Normand

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:32:33 +0200

Simplicity Is Highly Overrated | Don Normand:

mnmal:

This is a fantastic article.

“Why can’t products be simpler?” cries the reviewer in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the local newspaper. “We want simplicity” cry the people befuddled by all the features of their latest whatever. Do they really mean it? No.

Ruby Weekly: A Ruby E-mail Newsletter

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:38:44 +0200

Ruby Weekly: A Ruby E-mail Newsletter:

One e-mail per week with news selected by the RubyInside guy.

Jekyll fix for Ruby 1.9.2

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:58:01 +0200

Jekyll fix for Ruby 1.9.2:

Time#parse changed a bit in Ruby 1.9.2. This change fixes jekyll.

simpledesks: Submitted by Deborah Kunzie.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:15:21 +0200

simpledesks:

Submitted by Deborah Kunzie.

Fixing Common Bundler Problems - Intridea Blog

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:12:34 +0200

Fixing Common Bundler Problems - Intridea Blog:

When bundler first came out, I really wanted to like it. It promised a clean way to declare dependencies for your application in a single and definitive place, regardless of what kind of box your app was running on. Unfortunately, bundler has not lived up to the hype, and I’ve had plenty of headaches from bundler problems. Read on for a list of tips I’ve pulled together to save you some headache.

Inkling - Interactive textbooks for iPad.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:33:03 +0200

Inkling - Interactive textbooks for iPad.:

This makes me sad that I’ve got only one year of studying left.

(via TUAW)

Discussion with a Java switcher | Merbist

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:30:14 +0200

Discussion with a Java switcher | Merbist

Github File Finder

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:30:37 +0200

Github File Finder:

Finally a clean way to browse github repos. Built in JS, under 10K compressed, so qualifies for the 10K Apart contest.

(via The Changelog)

Minimal Mac | Via: The Endangered Species

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:44:00 +0200

Minimal Mac | Via: The Endangered Species:

Attribution and acknowledgement of sourcing are not only the right thing to do, the honorable thing to do, they are the very strands in the thing we call the web. They are what connect it all together. They help to explain how I got here from there and why. They also help you navigate back down that thread and, hopefully, onto other places filled with wonder, curiosity and delight.

Less.js Will Obsolete CSS

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:58:11 +0200

Less.js Will Obsolete CSS:

There are other cool features built into Less.js. For example, there’s a “watch” feature available in development mode. This feature will refresh the CSS on your page whenever your .less file is saved with new changes. The best thing is, it won’t refresh the whole page, just the right bits of CSS, live.

How awesome is that?!

Marco.org: How I write and time-manage

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:25:34 +0200

Marco.org: How I write and time-manage:

I was asked a few times by some very nice people at WWDC this week how I manage my time between Instapaper and Tumblr, and how I write essays here that occasionally make sense. If you’ll forgive my auto-back-patting, here’s the answer I gave, and I think it’s worth sharing with you because you can…