UX/Design Practices Inexpensive UX Display Boards: Cheap Tools & Good Process You can build a UX display board inexpensively with foam core boards and stands to keep UX design artifacts visible and help guide the team.
Web Apps Integrating Paypal Express with Rails 3.1 – Part 2 How to integrate Paypal with Ruby on Rails 3.1. A step-by-step tutorial.
DevOps & System Admin. Bash, Pipes, and Standard Input If we simply drop the less than character, we will be providing our script to bash as an argument, leaving standard input untouched. Life is good.
Software Science Binary Serialization Tour Guide A list of most of the choices for serializing and communicating binary data structures.
Web Apps libiconv Problems with MAMP, PHP, and Ruby Solution to a problem executing a Ruby script from PHP using MAMP on Mac OS X where the wrong libiconv was being picked up.
Development Practices From Pigment to Pixels: What Art History Can Teach Us about Software Design This post compares and contrasts software design for hire with art done for patrons.
Embedded Systems C Tips and Tricks, Part I This post focuses on how to construct constant and volatile pointers, and how to avoid a common pitfall when dealing with floating point constants.
Ruby on Rails Running Multiple Rails Applications with Pow Configuring Pow, a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X, to work from external devices.
Extracurricular Activities Investigating Verizon’s Network Optimization Verizon re-compresses media sent across its wireless data network, reducing quality, but increasing transfer speed.
Evolving the Industry Book Review: Code by Charles Petzold Code is a unique book that mixes lessons in logic, electronics, and math with history and narrative in a deep but relaxed exploration of computer technology.
Growing as Makers Applying Agile to Hardware Development The motivations and principles of Agile are applicable to many engineering disciplines outside of software development, including hardware itself.
Developer Tools Splitting an SVN Repository Split a SVN (subversion) repository, maintaining commit history during the migration, with svnadmin, svndumpfilter, and svn dump files.