February 2009
1 post
rant: iPhone apps
Apple, the app store sucks. Yeah, it’s a brilliant innovation to have an app store for a smart phone, but I’m over that. You have a serious problem in that you’ve made it so trendy and cool to create iPhone apps, that damn near everyone is doing it. As a result, there’s a total lack of quality in many of the apps. For free ones this isn’t that big a deal, because...
January 2009
7 posts
reminder: include created_at field on database...
From now on, include a created_at or some other field on every table to make it easy to dump a subset of the database for testing, development.
reminder: convert rails foo.erb to foo.html.erb
To help with migrating old projects to rails 2.x conventions
why you need twitter
It seems that for better or worse, our world is increasingly dependent on small, bite-size communications. And, you probably suck at it. I’m sorry; maybe you’re too old, or too young, or you never got around to taking that creative writing class in college. It’s going to be okay, we’re all bad at something. Just watch me try to communicate with a large group in real life...
more blogging on the go...
Trying this one out since iBlogger required a line-break option that would have required me to reformat most of my old entries. That’s something I’d like to avoid. Look ma’ a photo.
[photo was here, really]
— Post From My iPhone
Update: This was with the blogpress iphone app, (I think). It also seems the photo service that’s built in lost my photo at some...
blogging on the go...
This is a test blog entry from iBlogger. I hope it turns out pretty because the idea of typing up a new entry from far off locales turns me on!
[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]
iPhone and Google syncing Shangri-La
I love Google Apps. And it turns out, I’m really digging my new iPhone. Using the iPhone with Google is awwwwkward. What follows is my current solution for syncing contacts and calendars between my Google apps account, Addressbook, iCal and my iPhone. Getting email perfect might be a later post, if I ever figure that one out. The main goals were to 1) sync my main Google Apps account...