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Welcome
I haven’t decided what to put in this column. In the mean time, here’s a picture of my cats.
Of Late
A smattering of recent posts.
I've been fortunate enough to attend three conferences through my employer: jQuery Conference (2010 and 2011), and WordCamp Boston (2011). I've regretted not blogging about these, so in lieu of a full recap, suffice it to say these were awesome, energizing events and I hope to keep participating in the future. The tech scene in Boston is alive and well.
There’s Always a New Tweet
2 January 2012.I don’t spend much time tweaking my UI, but I do attempt to minimize distractions. New mail notifications, badges showing unread messages, growls of all shapes and sizes, all these have a very poor signal to noise ratio, and rarely do they impact my current priority. #
iTerm 2 Skinny Fonts: Solution
12 December 2011.For reasons that were unknown to me, iTerm 2 would display a nice, thick font when the laptop was the primary screen, but a very thin font when the Acer was primary. #
Is the Earth Special?
12 December 2011.I loved this recent Slashdot post. It’s full of interesting facts about our planet. #
Locked Files in Mac OS X
8 December 2011.You may observe files with the correct ownership (chown) and permissions (chmod u+rw) that are write-locked. In my experience, the files were editable with sudo, and modification via the Finder would prompt for an administrator password. In these situations, you may be dealing with additional file attributes. #
jsRender: Passing Variables to Nested Templates
1 December 2011.Is there a cleaner way than $view.parent.parent.data.key? #