September 2010
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“What Makes a Great Agile Developer?
Passion about software development
Has...”
– Colleague and all-around awesome guy Kevin Owocki recently shared this list of qualities that make a great agile developer. I think they’re pretty worthwhile too.
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TechStars NYC →
If you’re an entrepreneur in New York City, you need to apply.
August 2010
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Cold Brewing
The Magic
Properly prepared cold brewed iced coffee just begs to be enjoyed black and the experience is unique and worthwhile. Cold brewing greatly reduces the acidity of the coffee produced, making it significantly less bitter and easier on your stomach. It also causes the flavors to be expressed differently than with a hot brewing method, so even your old, tired roasts can taste fresh and...
April 2010
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“Evil is baby killing… pogroms… serial killers… the Jonah Brothers. You know, bad...”
– Jeff LaMarche shares one of my own pet peeves.
To condense Jeff’s longer post, in my own words: when someone does something which is detrimental to others, it’s not evil. Evil is skinning babies, conspiring towards genocide, that sort of thing. Causing some aggravation to someone else with actions...
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9-Bits: Watch Your Language →
The new iPhone developer agreement which Apple posted yesterday has caused a bit of a stir in the development community. Due to the wording, it is currently unclear whether or not certain development platforms will be able to continue delivering iPhone apps — most notably affecting companies…
March 2010
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NYC Mugged →
I’m beginning a quest to find the best coffee (shop) somewhere between SOHO and Midtown using sites like NYC Mugged (linked above). Results to follow shortly slowly.
January 2010
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Editing Bookmarks in Chrome for Mac OS X
I’m a huge fan of Google Chrome for Mac OS X. It’s painfully fast and lightweight (especially when compared to Firefox); however, it’s still very much in beta. One place this has become glaringly obvious is the lack of a bookmark manager.
One way around this limitation is to edit the Bookmarks file located in:
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
Editing...
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Notify (or why I
I love Gmail, I really do, but it can be frustrating to always be tied to a web application. I tried using Fluid to give my email experience more of a desktop-y feel, and I even wrote a nifty userscript to display a Growl notification when you receive a new email. It worked for the most part, but high memory usage rendered the fluid app painful unpleasant to use, and I eventually abandoned the...
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Coping With MySQL Slave Lag
DISCLAIMER: I do sysadmin work out of necessity, not by choice. Your mileage with these suggestions may vary. As always, exercise caution when making changes to your application’s architecture.
Background
When scaling your MySQL-based web application, setting up multiple databases in a master-slave configuration can be a great way to distribute load. The procedure is well documented, and...