Category Archives: Misc

Introducing Zit, an object-oriented dependency injection container

I’ll admit right now that I’m fairly new to the world of dependency injection containers.  I usually do my dependency injection “manually” and have always thought that there must be a better way. Then I came across Pimple, which is … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs went to Cupertino, and all I got were these lousy revolutions…

I came up with a great tee shirt idea.  I’m going to print a few.  You can buy one if you want. Link to this post!

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Using Modulo Operations for Even-Enough Distribution

If you don’t have to deal with large groups of data, this post is not for you.  But if you do, and aren’t familiar with the modulo operator, read on. Link to this post!

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Optimize Legibility in Safari 5

Just saw this (via Daring Fireball): Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures And thought, “there’s gotta be an extension for that.”  Well, looks like there isn’t… so I made one: Enjoy! Link to this post!

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Safari Toolbar CSS

By default, Safari extension toolbars are just plain old HTML. That means that your toolbar is going to look a lot like: Wouldn’t it be nice if instead it looked like: I’ve developed a (very) simple CSS file that styles … Continue reading

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Mobile App Development for Web Developers

On February 23rd I gave a talk at PANMA‘s Mobile App Development Demystified event. My talk was titled Mobile App Development from a Web Developer’s Perspective. Here are my slides: Link to this post!

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Find oversized files in *nix

Every once in a while I run the following command on my servers to hunt out the largest files to make sure nothing’s taking up too much space.  For example, it’s been very useful in hunting down over sized log … Continue reading

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"Get it right" = Procrastination

“I’m not going to do [a] because I need to get [b] right first.” I, like most people, am a master of procrastination.  I clean my desk, file my e-mail, make a few phone calls, write a blog entry, etc, … Continue reading

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ohpleasepleaseplease….

Oh man… here goes. Link to this post!

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Simple PHP Pavatar Method

Microsoft Passport was a good idea. OpenID is a better idea. Gravatar is a good idea. Pavatar is a better idea. I think whenever a system can be open and decentralized, it should be (see my upcoming post on decentralized … Continue reading

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