Author Archives: Darian Shimy
My DSL is not that slow
I went to download a file and saw the following estimated download times: Although, DSL and Cable providers have been adding higher speeds to their offerings, isn’t it time to lump them together into ‘broadband.’
Can we ditch the Fax Machine yet?
I recently needed to fax a document to Apple regarding the iPhone. Here is the comment I added to the fax cover page: You requested information to be sent via an obsolete technology. Although a fax machine may look nice … Continue reading
Realtime Log Visualization
Erlend Simonsen put out a program called gltail that creates a graphical representation of your log files. I saw this a long time ago, but last night I finally started playing with it. It works quite well. I needed to … Continue reading
New Twitter Account
So as I mentioned earlier, I no longer show up in Twitter results. I tried to get it fixed, but it’s not worth my time anymore. I created another Twitter account with the same username. The old account was renamed. … Continue reading
I’m Banned from Twitter Search
Being in the Social Media Monitoring space, I often need to test certain functionality with Twitter Search. For my account, this is very difficult. For some reason, none of my tweets ever show up in Twitter Search. Have I been … Continue reading
pubsubhubbub Support
Just added support for pubsubhubbub with a WordPress Plugin. Interested to see if my posts will appear in Google Reader any faster. Probably not, but it can’t get much slower. Which hubs are you using?
ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit
This Thursday I’ll be at the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit in Mountain View, CA. If anyone else is planning on attending, let me know.
SQL Logging to script/console
When running a Rails console session, a true time saver is directing the ActiveRecord logs to STDOUT instead of the log file. This is easily accomplished adding the following to your ~/.irbrc file: if rails_env = ENV[’RAILS_ENV’] # Called after … Continue reading
Error Handling with XML and Authlogic
I was helping a friend integrate an API into the application. He is running Rails 2.3.4 with Authlogic. His authentication check method was the following: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 def require_user unless current_user session[:return_to] = request.request_uri … Continue reading
Hex Color Picker
One thing missing from the color picker in OS X is the ability to see the hex code for a color. An absolute must for web development. Luckily, there is a handy extension to add a pane to the color … Continue reading
