http://blog.valefor.com Music, Games, Linux, Programming, Design Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:53:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Neck of State. Pretty awesome. http://blog.valefor.com/2009/01/21/neck-of-state/ I was setting up my linode tonight and I was having lots of trouble installing the right postgresql gem, getting it unpacked and working in a clean rails app. I finally managed to do it correctly. First of all the correct gem seems to be "pg". It's the most recently updated ... http://blog.valefor.com/2009/01/11/ruby-and-rails-with-postgresql/ I used to be REALLY excited about the Open Moko phones. Once it finally got released (in this semi-user friendly setting, not JUST developer models) it became not only very overpriced for the hardware (compared to other offerings) but the software is severely lacking to begin with. I am keeping ... http://blog.valefor.com/2009/01/07/google-android/ So recently my company bought some javascript code and we wanted to read through it and make sure nothing fishy was going on. Of course it was obfuscated using some code that starts out with: eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r){ Googling I found this that shows how just adding eval = alert; above the code makes your browser ... http://blog.valefor.com/2008/11/12/obfuscated-javascript-code-using-functionpacker/ For the first time in long time, I actually cared about a candidate and I can't be happier that he's elected. Let's hope change can start that helps the United States get out of one of the worst periods of our history. http://blog.valefor.com/2008/11/04/yes-we-can/ I can has votes? Yes I can. Showed up at 6:55 not knowing what to expect since I have not voted in Brookline before and was met with a line of people. At 7:45 I submitted my ballot to the big black box and left. Some were saying this was ... http://blog.valefor.com/2008/11/04/voting/ These are all a part of my quickly growing collection of books on web design or relating to it. I always have more I'm interested in picking up, but they're all so expensive! ;) Javascript Simply Javascript CSS CSS: The Definitive Guide Designing with Web Standards CSS Cookbook Bulletproof Web Design The Art & Science of CSS Transcending ... http://blog.valefor.com/2008/06/27/books-i-own-that-ive-found-useful-in-web-design/ Lol this article is amazing :PBut don't read it if you don't want spoilers for Battlestar Galactica up to the very end of the third season.Cylons for McCain http://blog.valefor.com/2008/05/04/cylons-for-mccain/ I'm getting disappointed reading the current news coming out of the OLPC camp. The reason I supported the project (and forked over my $400) was for two reasons. 1) I agree with education being the answer to most of the world's problems and 2) I support open software. This project ... http://blog.valefor.com/2008/05/02/olpc-dissapointments/ http://fadtastic.net/2008/04/01/awesome-hot-tips-for-your-website-in-2008/The Universal IE HackAnother hot tip? Go on then.Last year saw the launch of IE7. IE6 is still a widely used browser and IE8 beta is out of the starting blocks. A lot of IE hacks? Nope. Simply use the Universal IE Hack. Place the following code in the Head ... http://blog.valefor.com/2008/04/29/lol/