2008 August 25′s NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA makes a joke about this not being a planetary forming nebula. While they are correct in that this nebula is not a fetus, it looks like a fetus. Ergo, spetus.
Category Archives: Technology
Need Firefox, have bash
April 29, 2012 – 07:56
For web development, we often need to test our code on multiple browsers. Firefox makes it really easy to run multiple versions side-by-side, so long as we take some care to not clobber profiles. This is a quick script to download and install the production versions of Firefox from 4 through 12 (13 is in read more
git svn dcommit hooks
April 13, 2012 – 14:47
Working with git and svn is as easy as git svn init ; git svn rebase ; git svn dcommit. What is slightly less trivial is adding hooks to enforce certain project behavior when working with git-svn. Specifically, I want to ensure and enforce that the build (locally, at least) is successful before I push read more
Agile Development Consulting
April 13, 2012 – 07:03
This is an open letter from me to nearly any potential client. The client and I have talked for a few emails, and I have just read an email asking me to spend 4 to 8 hours in a meeting working to detail every single piece of their software project for the next 6 months, read more
Double Mapper!
March 28, 2012 – 14:30
I’ve always loved places, and in loving places, have always loved maps. I’ve always been curious as to the relative size of places, as well. I’m decent at estimating some things, but lengths, not so much. To get a better understanding of the comparative sizes of places around the world, I put together these pair read more
Mass Effect 3: How It Could Have Ended
March 20, 2012 – 12:03
I’ve played through Mass Effect 3 three times now, and I will play through a couple more. The ending, by which I mean the last 10 minutes, is atrocious, as documented many places. Now, most of these inconsistencies are not huge issues in and of themselves, but taken together have a very negative impact on read more
jQuery: The Best Parts
February 24, 2012 – 14:46
jQuery is the javascript library I’ve come to know and love. It just makes web development easy. I had an opportunity to give a presentation outlining the best features of jQuery to the company I work for, and it went over quite well. The audience was a technical audience of java-turned-web developers who have predominantly read more
jQuery UI: Accordion::next()
February 22, 2012 – 13:24
I needed a “next” function to cycle between accordion panels in jQuery. The relevant Stack Overflow question is a couple years old…
Don’t Blink!
January 11, 2012 – 12:35
Since <blink> and text-decoration: blink; don’t work in Webkit or IE9…
Javascript convert string to number
December 24, 2011 – 12:21
Most javascript guides recommend the generally standard parseInt and parseFloat methods to convert from a string to a number. Multiplying by 1 works as well, eg 1 * “54″