...and just as winter apparently undid my nerves it also undid my desire to blog. I've never experienced a winter like this one, and seemingly could not have reacted...

When People Magazine called Paul Krassner the father of the underground press, he promptly demanded a paternity test. His brainchild, The Realist, published "extreme...

The truth is, I’m obsessed with being healthy. Okay, maybe “obsessed” is a bit strong — If I was truly serious about my health, I probably...

The Get Elastic blog had an interesting post last week on American Eagle’s (http://www.ae.com) incorporation of product merchandising elements within the drop down...

My day’s meetingtastic, so not much detail from me, but PubMatic’s announcement of its AdPrice Index is a very sharp move indeed. Now just let publishers...

Following up on Stuart's comment about the purpose of the Word Team Blog, here are some great resources if you have questions we're not posting about. Office Online's...

In a post last week, I discussed my strategy for using a Today Card. That is, an index card with three tasks that I would like to accomplish with some room left for...

I was recently working on a search algorithm for a Flash piece I am working on, and the way the algorithm worked involved doing separate searches for each keyword from an...

Chopping text at fixed number of characters, or preferably the nearest corresponding word boundary, is a common problem and is usually handled entirely server side. An...

Recently I've started doing more reference oriented material on my site, some of such length that they required an index. Previously I'd built the index by hand, but...

After moving from DreamHost over to Media Temple a few months ago, I ran into some issues with the Rails Containers and have since moved on to Slicehost. I’m...

I'm phasing out the webpage with the blog post index and music index and all of that. Too cumbersome to maintain, and I have been feeling guilty for falling behind. The...

I am constantly changing the default index.template.html in my Flex projects. This is quite nice, as you can even change the index.template.html to index.template.php...

After code reviewing some large number of files, I took a slight detour over to BoingBoing to an article on an alternative CAPTCHA mechanism. Instead of using a normal...

個人用の Rails アプリ管理に使ってみた。 便利。 時々 push を忘れてしまいそうで怖い。 インストール rpm...

Every so often, I see a new package listed on the Python Package Index that claims -- in its tag line, no less -- that it offers some feature "without external...

Ruby 1.9 has it but if you're not that bleeding edge, you can have it now: class Array def index_with_block(*args) return index_without_block(*args) unless...

The server at YubNub's web host lost a drive; the RAID is rebuilding. We'll be up again soon.More info: http://help.textdrive.com/index.php?pg=forums.posts&id=459&pc=2

We hear people asking questions, how to make swf (more) searchable? Is SWF searchable? Not many people know, most of the search engines index text within swf files. My...

One of the problems with the rspec_on_rails_on_crack (git://activereload.net/rspec_on_rails_on_crack.git) was that the redirection examples had horrible descriptions. ...