The Archives / 2009

• Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

  I wrote up a pretty lengthy post over at the GitHub blog explaining how we do asset bundling… Read More

• It’s just not about how many hours you work

  My favorite discussion amongst web professionals is when people start talking about work/life balance and how many hours they're working. There's been no end of interesting ideas… Read More

• Joining GitHub

  I still feel like it was last week I decided to give up my “safe” job at Web Associates Level Studios to play around with the ENTP crew. Well, it’s time for another… Read More

• Why aren’t there any journalistic startups?

  I think it’s time that we can all agree that the news industry is failing. Hundreds of newspapers have declared bankruptcy and gone under in the past couple years — and… Read More

• Quick & Dirty Referral Tracking

  Ever wondered where people came from to sign up for your web app? Recently I wanted to track referrals for Tender and wanted something quick and… Read More

• Having fun with the Lighthouse API

  I’ve been using Lighthouse since it’s inception, but now that I’m working with the ENTP folks I get to thinking about what to do with Lighthouse a lot more. I’ve… Read More

• Stop complaining about App Store approval times

  I'm getting kind of tired of all these web developers complaining about the time it takes to get updates to their apps up on the iTunes App Store. The truth is this complaining… Read More

• Working Remote

  For about a year now, I've been working from my house -- working on stuff for entp and the occasional contract here and there. Overall, I think it's… Read More

• Ruby Training in Atlanta, April 1-3

  entp's Jeremy McAnally is teaming up with Ruby Power and Light (that'd be the very David Black) to put on a three… Read More

• Do people really like the window management in xCode?

  I posted some thoughts to twitter last night about how much the xCode window management drives me insane. What I got back was a huge reaction of "it's perfect" and "this is how… Read More

• Initial thoughts on Objective-C & Cocoa

  I've been playing around with Cocoa the past few days, going through a lot of tutorials and pouring over the syntax. Overall, it's been a very interesting experiment. The drawing… Read More

• Just give up and use cardboard

  Today I tried to build a house. After 47 minutes of trying really hard with all these building codes, earthquake “protection” braces and battling complicated ideas like… Read More

• What I look for in a project manager

  I've worked with a lot of project managers in my time. Some have been complete wastes of my time. Some have had no impact whatsoever. Some have made me angry. Some have made… Read More

• Getting back on track with Hemingway

  Hemingway hasn't seen a lot of love in a while. Well, I'm trying to get back on track with it. The source has been… Read More

• Ship It

  I'm a big fan of doing instead of talking. So much so I forget to talk about the things I should talk about. It's been a busy few weeks -- and I totally forgot to talk about some… Read More

• 2008. It’s a wrap.

  2008 was a landmark year. In 2007 I graduated college with my B.S. in Civil Engineering, and 2008 was the year I looked past the degree and started my life.

• Side project profitability

  Side projects are the small businesses of the web -- the little projects people put their blood, sweat & tears into. Many side projects downright fail, some succeed wildly,… Read More