my current Work Stack

  • iOS Objective-C
  • Ruby
  • Mongo
  • Rails/Sinatra
  • jQuery
  • Capistrano
  • Passenger
  • Apache.Nginx
  • Heroku
  • Nodejs
last edited 02.10.2012

here's all my posts so far

02/10 Using the Facebook SDK in an IOS Static Library
04/11 Managing Development or Sometimes work gets in the way of work
12/21 Git Stash: For when your boss|clients|life priorities change
12/09 Picker Fields in Titanium
11/30 An Update on Raphael JS and Charts
10/08 How to make a Native App Form that doesn't suck with Titanium
09/23 Notification Subscriptions in Gowalla
09/21 Developing an API in Rails
08/26 I was promised Event Driven APIs and hoverboards. Where are my hoverboards?
08/14 A Node.js wrapper for Gowalla
08/09 Phusion Passenger Tweaking: Apache stuck in Sending(W)
06/28 HTML 5 is here and breaking old hacks we should have never done!
06/26 Simple PDFkit example in Rails 3
06/23 Raphael.serialize
06/12 Serializing RaphaelJS
06/11 Rails 3 beta4 destroyed my Tie Fighter
05/21 Rails 3 and Shoulda
05/13 Using yaml to configure default options for Paperclip
05/07 It's OK to not be pretentious
04/23 Snippet #1
04/21 I Need Closure
04/16 The Good and Bad of Github
04/08 Fun with Beards, or at least mine

here's some tweets I made

It's OK to not be pretentious

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This week I got bit by Flickraw getting banned. Because setting up your own API key in Flickraw is lame, a lot of people ended up using the internal one.

I had a few sites doing just that. But flickraw breaking made me re-evaluate why I was using it. In the past I've done a lot of "cool" things simply because it was fun or even because it was more difficult.

But doing something just because it's more difficult doesn't make me a better developer, it just makes me pretentious. I'm now using the Flickr badge with some modified css. It took way less time and loads faster.

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