February 2008
59 posts
The Simple Dollar reviews some personal finance... →
If you keep things simple to begin with, you don’t need complex tools to manage it.
January 2008
84 posts
xssterminate - Google Code →
Useful for stripping HTML out of inputs. Rails plugin.
Information Architects Japan →
Information Architects Japan (iA) just revamped their site. I think they’re my favorite designers working on the web. Their work is stellar.
Unfortunately, the site’s a bit buggy, so I can’t comment or contact them. Hopefully their Google Alert will show them this post, and they’ll know they have a fan who appreciates their work.
Softies on Rails: Rails REST 101 meets Rails 2.0 →
Notes on RESTful app development.
5 CSS Tips to Make IE (You) Happy →
A list of IE-specific hacks. I’m wary of using hacks, but these might be good to know about down the road.
Caketime! →
Andrea is a polymath. That means she knows how to do a lot of things. Like make cookies. Or raise kittens. Or budget.
Andrea just posted a review of PearBudget. She gets it:
think of it as budgeting 2.0- a free service (while it is still in beta, at least) where you can upload all your receipts and compare them to your budget. for the first few months, when you still don’t really understand...
Getting the Blog Going Again →
Apologies to everyone who had been subscribed to the old PearBudget blog. It took us a while to get the new one up and running, and we’re honestly not sure if you’ll be automatically signed up through FeedBurner or not. So if you were subscribed before please consider signing up again.
We’ll be posting a bunch of things to the blog … mainly news, reviews, testimonials, tutorials, and good...
Choosy Moms Choose Jif. Busy Moms Choose... →
It’s fitting that busy moms and dads would find PearBudget useful … because it was built by a busy mom and dad! Sarah and I have three little ones of our own, so we know what it’s like to have to plan ahead even when you feel like you’re already behind.
Absolutely love the simplicity of this software. Thank you so much,
very busy mom of 3,
De Ana
Thank you, De Ana!
Busy Moms of 3 Love PearBudget →
It’s fitting that busy moms and dads would find PearBudget useful … because it was built by a busy mom and dad! Sarah and I have three little ones of our own, so we know what it’s like to have to plan ahead even when you feel like you’re already behind.
Absolutely love the simplicity of this software. Thank you so much,
very busy mom of 3,
De Ana
Even Accounting Majors Love PearBudget →
Got a great note from an accounting major, now with a non-profit:
Just wanted to write a quick note saying that I signed up for PearBudget a few minutes ago on a whim and think that it is phenomenal! The graphics are clean, the concept is easy and intuitive. I’m an accounting major, a pretty good one at that, and quicken and some of the other programs have always been a little overwhelming - and...
counter examples →
body{counter-reset: chapter}
H1:before {content: “Chapter ” counter(chapter) “. “;counter-increment: chapter; /* Add 1 to chapter */}
H1{counter-reset: section}
H2:before{content: counter(chapter) “.” counter(section) ” “;counter-increment: section}
The 'content' property →
Using the content property to assign numbers to non-numbered elements.
div { counter-reset: listnum; }
div p:before { content: counter(listnum); counter-increment: listnum; }
Flip →
Turning text upside down, ajaxically.
˙ʎzɐɹɔ ʎʇʇǝɹd sı sıɥʇ ˙ʎɐʞo
Finally unsick enough that I can make progress. Working on the blog, despite the dire need to work on Ruby code. Hopefully this’ll be quick.
Improve website load time by 500% with 3 lines of... →
Curious if this works.
PDF Hammer - Free Web Based PDF Editor →
“PDF Hammer is a website that allows you to edit your PDF files online for free. You don’t need to install any additional software, you can edit PDF documents right now inside your browser.”
Letters from Kamp Krusty: The Krusty Sage: Should... →
Great piece from Brant about sheltering your kids: “Childhood has it’s own seasons, its own rhythm, its own implicit modesties, and, if allowed, its own sweet, and more real, charms.” “If you don’t shelter your kids, you’re a traitor.”
Harvard Business Review - London →
“Hand-picked by the editors of HBR, these articles will show you how to get more done, lead more effectively, and leverage your own unique strengths.”
Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive and Sane While... →
Fantastic article, from Leo.
Rails documentation →
I really need to spend some time reading this puppy.
Trying to remember that “good enough” is, in fact, good enough.
The Blinksale API →
Great documentation for developers accessing an API. A model of what API docs should look like.
Let’s, um, try that again, shall we? Thao with the Get Down Stay Down = absolutely incredible. http://tinyurl.com/2k7bjo
Thao (with the Get Down Stay Down)
Song: Beat...
chatr - Baking those "Special" Kind of Cookies →
How to encrypt cookies in Rails.
UNCF:How We Got Here →
Terrific use of glider.js.
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you...”
– Tim O’Reilly, nicely munging a Garrison Keillor quote. From What We Have vs. What We Want.
Giving Twitter another look... - The Viral Garden →
This experience has hammered home this point for me about social media: it works best when you view it as a way to create value, not as a tool to extract value. When I didn’t ‘get’ Twitter before, it was because I was trying to extract value from it, without really providing any. … The end lesson for companies, and myself, is that if you want to get value from social media,...
Quicken Online + The iPhone = Yuck! (with iPhone... →
Wow. Not the interface I was expecting to see. Mental note: don’t make an iPhone interface the cornerstone of PearBudget Mobile marketing.
Plugins - SMS Fu - Agile Web Development →
Although the plugin has been taken down at the moment, it presumably enables better SMS from a web service’s API. Or something. Not sure if you’d still need the various SMS hookups to make this work.
Woodstoves →
Some good bits about woodstoves. Note the listing of good and bad woods to burn.
Whose attention span is so short he gets distracted halfway through making a pot of coffee?
Me.
Whose attention span is so short he gets distracted halfway through making a blog post about getting distracted halfway through making a pot of coffee?
Me again.
DreamHost Blog » Um, Whoops. →
The moral of this story is that “flexibility” is rarely desired in programming! The less a program will accept/the less a program will do/the less options and preferences it has, the more usable it is/the more understandable it is/the more stable it is.
When designing a program, you’ve got to make some tough decisions … and when you really can’t decide if this is something your users will...
Geekward The Personal Blog of Eldon Alameda →
Had a migration conflict. I ended up commenting out the self.down part of the migration, but this blog post helped with part of it.
The Simple Dollar » Review: Grow Your Money →
A terrific review of what looks like a terrific book.
“Dieter Rams:
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
...”
– The Future Of Apple Is In 1960s Braun: 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future
Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect →
A neat tutorial showing how to make a photo look like a comic book.
How to use Photoshop to create a product box →
Was always so impressed when Fretto did these for SOTW.
Orb Button Effect - Photoshop →
Should I ever need to get into gel buttons, this tutorial’s a good one.
