Posted at 22:10h
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Programming,
Symfony
After reading the Productive Programmer, I was inspired to write a custom script to add Symfony menus to my Emacs editor. After some frustration (I find emacs LISP tough to grok), I finally figured it out. (script is below)
Anyway, here are a couple of pictures...
Posted at 16:53h
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Solar
It's enough to power 80 homes in SF and it offsets 14 million pounds of carbon over its lifetime, according to this Marketwatch article....
Posted at 15:27h
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PHEV,
Solar
I spent some time this afternoon speaking with various solar installers at the GoSolarSF fair at the Eureka Valley rec center. To say the fair was crowded would be an understatement. I wasn't able to speak to most of the installers--the crowds were too deep....
Posted at 20:28h
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Programming,
SproutCore
Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote a nice tutorial on building an OpenSocial app with SproutCore....
Posted at 18:49h
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Programming
I just finished reading the Productive Programmer and I really like the suggestions, such as SLAP (single level of abstraction). The book isn't language specific, but it is Java-heavy in the examples. Still, everything is adaptable to other languages.
There is now also a wiki for...
Posted at 17:19h
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jQuery
IE6's well known margin problems can be solved many ways, such as using CSS that only IE6 will read.
I like to use CSS and jQuery as follows:
CSS:
#wrapper
 {
 margin: 0 auto;
 width: 800px;
 ...
Posted at 17:07h
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Random Comment
Well it's been a long time since I've posted something. A part of that was the decision to move away from my custom blog code (mostly XSLT based, believe it or not!) to something much easier, Wordpress. In the process I moved all of my...
Posted at 10:44h
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Is it just me, or do others hear the words "Foot Long" kosaurus in their imagination when they read the word Futalognkosaurus?...
Posted at 04:11h
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Tom Friedman writes that todays twentysomethings are too Quiet - hence the moniker Generation Q.
I get his point, but it seems to me that quiet is a strength that is easily underestimated....
Posted at 01:36h
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Media
Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros. and MGM are teaming up with BitTorrent to provide better downloading using P2P. That's good.
But cable and DSL companies are shutting down users who use too much bandwidth. You see, their business model assumes that most users use their...
Posted at 09:01h
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I was stumped for a moment by this error on the Mac. It turns out that the simple solution is to sign out, and then sign in again.The same goes for the SPH200D when it is not able to skype-out. Just sign out and then...
Posted at 05:03h
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Bittorrent for Leopard and Apple TV? Carl Howe thinks so.]...
Posted at 06:22h
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Here is an interesting event coming up next year. I'm not sure to what extent it will interest life coaches, but the form to receive updates mentions coaching services....
Posted at 07:11h
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Eight people and counting.That's how many have told me that I'm getting $100 back (actually, $100 store credit) for purchasing my iPhone early.It seems to me that you can't buy this sort of word-of-mouth. Or maybe, that IS the way to buy it....
Posted at 10:28h
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An interesting article at Edmunds talks about Chevy and A123Systems teaming up. "Weber said GM believes electric power is the only way to achieve the automaker's goal of taking the automobile out of the environmental equation because it emits no emissions."...
Posted at 03:08h
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Tom Friedman makes an interesting point about green collar jobs being less susceptable to offshoring....
Posted at 14:20h
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This is just a plug for Mary, a client of mine. She just started Awakening the Eco-Soul, a website for her book on soul types....
Posted at 01:22h
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Prof. John Gallauger of the Carroll School of Management ends his June 3 post on Facebook with a provocative thought: "...
Posted at 15:21h
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When I ask my iPhone about nearby seafood restaurants, this is what I really want to know--what do my Facebook friends recommend?...
Posted at 06:40h
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I know the title says New AACS "fix" hacked in a day, but shouldn't it read like this:New AACS "bug" fixed in a day...