A Better Find for TextMate
I just found the rather excellent Ack in Project TM bundle. I like the output format better, and it searches unbelievably fast compared to the standard TM “Find in Project”. Happy day!
It Makes My Day
Errant has written a very nice comparison of CI and Kohana, touching on almost every feature that I think makes Kohana great. It’s good to see an honest and down to earth review from an outsiders point of view.
Why I Support Obama
I couldn’t agree more with Andrew Sullivan’s reader. I also am 21 years old, and support Obama. In fact, I donated to the Feburary 12th Obama money bomb. Normally, I would never consider donating to anyone, and never donated to Ron Paul (even though I like RP) because it just didn’t seem right.
Obama is my candidate of choice, because having him as president would make me proud to say “I am an American” again.
UNIX Sex Jokes
Today I found this gem pure nerdiness:
updatedb; locate; talk; date; cd; strip; look; touch; finger; unzip; uptime; gawk; head; apt-get install condom; mount; fsck; gasp; more; yes; yes; yes; more; umount; apt-get remove –purge condom; make clean; sleep
I laughed. And then laughed again.
Candidate for Best Web Host
Today I discovered WebFaction by way of the CodeIgniter IRC chat. They came highly recommended, and their main selling point is that they offer 1-click installs of Rails, Django, Trac, SVN, and PHP, among many others.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention: they are about the same price as DreamHost. I’m thinking about moving my personal domain over there.
Most forced smile ever?
Sarkozy meets the Pope… must have been real awkward.
PS: Why does the pope always look like he might suddenly pull a small animal out of his robe and eat it alive?
DRO HAZ JOB!
Why Dro Doesn’t Post Much
Ok, so it’s time to explain why I’m so bad at posting. No, it’s not sex, drugs, or rock’n'roll. It’s Kohana, the PHP5 framework that I ended up being the lead developer of.
Around May of 2007, some of the active members of the CodeIgniter community decided to fork CI. There were several reasons for this fork. The main issues were speed of development and how the community was being treated ignored.
We forked, and after a month or so of work, had fixed all of outstanding bugs that CI had, and asked EllisLabs (the creators of CI) to think about making our changes official. They promptly attacked us for trying to help, and more or less told us to GTFO.
Now, many months later, our fork has grown and matured. Kohana is now a very fast PHP5 MVC framework that has a lot of promise. Our first official release is out, and we are had at work on the next release. And it takes a lot of my time.
Wired Science… on PBS?!
Tonight I found out that Wired Science plays on PBS, in HD. PWN!
Goes back to watching Wired Science.
Oh, I almost forgot… I had to post because Tez “forgot” again. I think he found a usable excuse to make me do all the work….. he’s the writer you know… I’m just supposed to be the one that posts random stuff once in a while and keeps the website running… yah. STARE AT HIM! DO IT!
Finally, An Explanation for Why Firefox Is Slow!
I’m cheaping out with another Reddit post. It’s not memory leaks, it’s memory fragmentation.
I promise my next posting will be something worthwhile. Sorry Tez!
Accident: The New Fragrance for Women
Saw this today via Reddit, and ran out of time to do that post that I was going to do… but it’s Caturday too, so I think I can cheap out.
Accident: The New Fragrance for Women. My take: this is pretty funny “new wave” or “viral” advertising. However, telling people not to talk on their cell phones while driving is obnoxious.
Election 2008, First Thoughts
Generally, I like to keep our posts light-hearted, and not talk about politics or other “hot-button” topics. However, Tez crapped out me today, and I have to fill in for him. Feel free to send him hate mail!
Today I was listening to NPR, and they were talking about Hillary. Here’s the problem folks, as simply as I can outline it, if Mrs. Clinton gets elected:
- George Bush
- Bill Clinton
- George “Dubya” Bush
- Hillary Clinton
Do you notice a pattern? It’s bad enough that we have a two-party system in the grand ol’ United States of Amerika, but now we have a two-family system?! Now, the second problem is mainstream media (including NPR). If the media would actually do real reporting on the candidates, instead of pandering to the front-runners, we could have a real election.
So, folks, it’s time to step up, call your local radio station, and tell them you want coverage of candidates that matter, not candidates that have more money than other candidates. And don’t vote for Hillary, vote for someone that might actually change something, rather than being the next cookie-cutter, corporate-lapdog President, or our once-proud country is going to get shittier and shittier.
EDIT: Whoops, I guess it’s not 2008 right now, is it?
Cars, Gas, Money, and Maintenance
Today’s topic is a bit more serious than yesterday. Here’s a bit of back story:
My girlfriend’s car (a 1996 Chevy Lumina) recently died. Long story short, it overheated while she was driving it, we got it checked out, and it has a blown head gasket. Price to fix: at least $1600, just to take apart the engine and find out if the cylinders are warped beyond repair. Not worth it, for a $800 car. So begins car shopping, and why I am writing this post.
There are some rules for car maintenance that I think will help everyone: Read more
i r stalking u!
Yay, it’s Caturday! Since Tez has no Internets at home, it falls upon me to do our daily post. However, I have to go car shopping today, so I’m going to cheap out and post a lolcat.
Also, as a bonus, Wake Up Cat. Enjoy!
We = Lazy
So, it’s been over a month since our last post. Yah, we suck like that. Here’s the deal:
- Tez started school again.
- Tez bought a Wii.
- Tez bought Metroid.
- Tez has no free time, due to 1-3.
- Woodrow got a new job.
- Woodrow quit his new job.
- Woodrow needs to pay the bills, and is job hunting.
- Woodrow has no free time, due to 1-3.
Ubuntu + Parallels = Pain
It seems that Parallels has some major issues with Ubuntu Server. The kind that make me feel like this guy:
Linux.com: Is my hardware Linux compatible?
Linux.com has a very nice feature about Linux hardware compatibility:
Deciding whether a particular computer is a good candidate for installing GNU/Linux can involve a nightmare of details about hardware compatibility. Nor is assembling a custom computer on which to run GNU/Linux any easier. In both cases, you need to evaluate video cards, sound cards, printers, scanners, digital camera, wireless cards, and mobile devices for compatibility with the operating system. Fortunately, help is available.
I’ve been around the Linux community for the last 3 years, and this article proves something that I always tell people about Linux: You can find anything, you just have to know how and where to look.
Note to Spammers
Akismet has caught 157 spam for you since you first installed it.
Your translation is on the left.
Hex Color Picker: God Loves Me Today
I just found Hex Color Picker for OSX. One of the worst things about OSX is that it gives you a severely limited color picking utility, with no way to enter or get a hex code of the color you pick. As a web designer, this makes the OSX color picking utility 100% useless. Today a light shined down and a voice said “search Google for ‘osx color’!” so I did. And now I am happy. Thx voice in teh sky!!1
Buddah Cat…
…iz at peace wit da world. I wish I was. 