[caption id="attachment353" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The Most Popular Pic On Reddit At The Moment"][/caption] I came in to work today expecting to hear a lot of chatter about the death of Osama Bin Laden. However, instead I find we're…
I just read an interesting tutorial over at David Walsh's blog about Facebook Open Graph Meta tags. In it he discusses how to use custom meta tags to tell facebook what image and text to use when someone "likes" your page.
I had forgotten about this video I made a couple months ago (back when my hair was still long.) Feeling a bit under the weather, I had stayed home from work. The combination of dry winter air, decongestants and lots of time on my hands led me to…
I'm sure you've heard the old story of Stone Soup -- either through a reading assignment in elementary school or perhaps in The Pragmatic Programmer. I think it's fair to consider the rise of Facebook as an elaborate retelling of that fable.…
[do action="amazon-jquery"/] There is, of course, no shortage of form building, validating and processing libraries. Zend has one that takes out the complexity of building a form and replaces it with more, but different, complexity. Most of the…
Check this out - IdentEngine is a javascript library that starting with something like an email address or profile url, will search across the social web, relying heavily on google's social graph APIs to compile a master profile. With the form…
Today I had to access a facebook account that I use for testing purposes. It had been a long time since I'd used it, so my first guess at the password was wrong. Facebook moved me to a page that explained how to retrieve a lost password along with a…
I love this talk by Sebastian Hermida called Zombies in my Workplace:
Somehow, in the last 15 years of web development, I missed the fact that you can point an anchor tag to the id of an element. I've always linked those to named anchors like this:
.... some stuff…
(crossposted from a post I made on reddit) In an attempt to keep the game relevant, they've changed a few rules to better reflect modern times. In the new version, one player is chosen at random to be the banker. That player owns all of the…
Can we just all agree that if you have a button that is supposed to toggle from one state to another, it should represent the current state? For example, on Reddit there's a button in each subreddit that will add or remove that subreddit from your…
It's common for the "business" people to have an idea and think that's what they're bringing to the table. I've had guys approach me to offer 5-25% equity in their imaginary company if I'll just build the product for free. My response is,…
💁🏾♂️ Hey girl, i'm rolling a Backwoods russian, you want a drag? 🤷🏽♀️ Naw, I'm a diehard Swisher bitch 💁🏾♂️ Hold on, I gotta make a t-shirt Hey there, blunt aficionados! Get ready to flaunt your unapologetic love for Swisher Sweets with our…
In programming, the term idempotent describes a method that can be called multiple times without changing the result. Sometimes it can be a symptom of madness or incompetence - I've seen code where a save() method was called repeatedly "just in…
I like this quote from "Dreaming In Code," a book I'm reading this week: In one observer's characterization of the two languages' partisans, Perlites are "chaotic/good trickster archetypes" where "Pythonistas are peaceful,…
Sometimes I throw exceptions; sometimes I throw punches. It's your call, code.
Behold, the world's greatest collection of "you're doing it wrong" examples.
Made these last night - Amanda has demanded an encore so they must be pretty good. Instructions: Preheat the oven to 350f. In a food processor, process a handful (about a cup) of pecans, a small handful (maybe 1/8 cup) for dried dates and about…
For the last year my work tunes have been provided by pandora. I had a couple stations that I had pruned and edited to my liking - to the point that I was seriously considering subscribing. I didn't mind the unobtrusive ads and the 40 hour a month…
the babies didn't cry that night though the wind was cold and whipped through the woods where they were huddled though the wind was cold and flickered the torches of the men searching a young father knew cold nights when his baby would…