DISQUS

Community Page on DISQUS

what is this?

philcrissman.com

General

New Thread »
    acts_as_monetized at philcrissman.com started by philcrissman
    Ruby Tidbits: Sentencizing A List of Things started by philcrissman
    Say you have an array. Maybe it is ["Larry", "Moe", "Curly"]. You’d like to display this as a sentence, not just a join, so it would read "Larry, Moe and Curly". That would be nice. Of course, you can’t guarantee that your array will have three items. Maybe tomorrow it will be just ["Frodo"], or [...]
    Some Ruby & Rails Tricks at philcrissman.com started by philcrissman
    Flex and Rails started by philcrissman
    I’ve started to be interested in Flex, recently. This interest piqued when I saw some of the rates that were being offered for Flex developers in this area, so I suppose my interest is completely mercenary and not particularly motivated by an interest in the technology, per se. I think that I’m okay with that.

    That [...]
    Strange jQuery.load() behavior started by philcrissman
    test message
    Displaying a Gmail ATOM Feed In Google Reader started by philcrissman
    So, not too long back, I thought I’d solve the “bacn” issue by having my notification emails automatically labelled “bacn” in Gmail, and then automatically archived. Trouble is, I’d then need to remember to check that label from time to time, so that I wouldn’t miss something I might actually want to know (ie, a [...]
    Where Does CTRL-W Come From? started by philcrissman
    I’ve been wondering recently about the history of CTRL-W.

    As a convention, it seems universal: CTRL-W closes a tab. I’ve found only one application which uses a tab-convention for different “pages” but does not accept CTRL-W to close tabs (MomentIM, a Jabber client).

    Everything else I’ve seen that uses tabs, also uses CTRL-W as the [...]
    Schroedinger’s Glass started by philcrissman
    What if we put a glass of water with water in it at exactly 0.5 ratio to the size of the glass. If we also put a person in the box and give that person a drug with a random 50% chance of turning the person into either a pessimist or an optimist, and close [...]
    Long Sign-Up Forms Considered Harmful started by philcrissman
    Considered useless, maybe, would be a better title.

    Of all the various trends that have accompanied the wide range of the “web 2.0″ school of applications, the one feature that sticks out, that I really like, is the minimalist sign-up form. Whether they call it signing up, registering, creating an account, the trend has been:
    To ask [...]
    Shiftspace for Firefox 3.0 started by philcrissman
    I’ve been lamenting the loss of Shiftspace silently and sullenly ever since I upgraded to the beta versions of Firefox 3 last year. I really didn’t want to downgrade and wait, though, since I was experiencing a few unhappy issues with Firefox 2 on Mac OS which happily disappeared with version 3. So, I did [...]
    Turn FriendFeed Into A Twitter Client started by philcrissman
    Internet Duct Tape has a great Greasemonkey script which will effectively turn FriendFeed into a Twitter client; adds the ability to tweet directly from FriendFeed, complete with a 140-character counter to keep you within Twitter parameters.

    Still “client” is a bit misleading… to be able to see the messages of everyone you follow on Twitter, [...]
    Apple’s Labeled Scrollbar started by philcrissman
    There’s a reason some people are fanatical about Apple’s design; it’s because they (Apple) consistently think of new things, pay attention to tiny details, and never stop trying to improve.

    Maybe this isn’t new to the site, but I hadn’t noticed it yet; I stopped by Apple’s Mac page today, and saw this:
    It’s a pretty simple, [...]
    Using K2 Hooks started by philcrissman
    K2 is a great WordPress theme, and one of it’s strongest features is it’s ease of customization. However, if you want to add anything other than just stylesheet changes — such as Google Analytics, or some adsense code in a place other than the sidebar — you still have to edit the main template, giving [...]
    Gmail: scanning for viruses started by philcrissman
    As I waited for an attachment to be available in Gmail, I watched a familiar message: scanning for viruses.

    It had never occurred to me to wonder before, but… what does Google use to scan for viruses? Does anyone know? Is it a custom solution? ClamAV? A combination of systems?

    And if it is a custom Google [...]
    Blamescoble, Day One started by philcrissman
    I wanted an excuse to build something small with the Qcodo PHP framework, and I had thought the whole mini-meme around blaming Scoble for Twitter’s downtime, and Drew Olanoff’s inspired leap to blame Scoble for, well, almost everything else, were amusing enough to build a microsite around. So http://blamescoble.com was born.

    I don’t know what I [...]
    The New OS started by philcrissman
    Dave Winer recently wrote:
    Twitter is the new OS. For the moment. It’s like the Apple /// in the days before the IBM PC. Remember the Apple ///? (Not many do.)

    I think that’s a good insight, and I like the comparison to the early days of the PC (really the pre-PC). But I don’t think [...]
    Strange jQuery.load() behavior started by philcrissman
    In a site I’m working on, I was using jQuery’s load() function to insert content into a div from a navigational menu. Seemed pretty straight forward. The original code looked like this:
    [Copy to clipboard][-]View CodeJAVASCRIPT1

    2

    3

    4

    $(".some_class").click(function () {<br
    Facebook morphs into… Twitter? started by philcrissman
    The New Facebook interface.

    I’m not sure yet if you must be logged in to see the above; let me know.

    Looks an awful lot like a more featureful Twitter.

    It still seems pretty incomplete, to me. I can’t find the option to post a link or note at all, only the “Wall” option; and links in your [...]
    No One Should Be Entertained This Easily started by philcrissman
    And yet…
    On Why FriendFeed Makes A Twitter Replacement Unnecessary started by philcrissman
    Every so often you see rumbles on Twitter about the likelihood of someone building A Better Twitter, with the idea that everyone will jump ship after getting fed up with Twitter’s downtime. Arguably, Pownce already is a “better” Twitter in some respects — yet the jump hasn’t happened.

    I could be wrong (sources say this has [...]
    We Need an Openbook started by philcrissman
    Reading Scoble’s post on Facebook & Microsoft, and I have to say, it sounds like something Microsoft would do. It sounds like an offer FB would be crazy to refuse.

    My first thought is that we need an alternative to Facebook that is not only open architecture, but open source. Ideally, it would be distributed.

    I’m [...]
    Welcome To Twitter! Twitter is down, now. started by philcrissman
    Heh. So I showed my sister John Hodgman’s twitter page, and she responded by deciding to sign up for a twitter account. We chatted over IM about Twitter for a few minutes, then this exchange took place:
    (3:47:03 PM) Shiz: twitter is down over here now

    (3:47:07 PM) Shiz: won’t load

    (3:47:23 PM) Phil Crissman: yeah. Here too. [...]
    Garfield minus garfield started by philcrissman
    Rainn Wilson on SNL started by philcrissman
New Thread »
Returning? Login