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This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Helio Ocean Tips & Tricks

Strange but true: hold down your ‘backspace’ (the one below the flame) and it will turn on your flash/flashlight!
The USB cable included actually charges the phone. Plug it in, then exit the media sync mode and you can use your phone while it’s charging. The indicator will go green when it’s on full charge.
To send [...]


use times in your yml fixtures

When using times in your yml fixtures don’t forget to get them into the proper format:
time: <%= 10.minutes.ago.to_s(:db) %>


NetNewsWire is now my rss reader of choice

I just can’t be satisfied with any rss readers for OS X. It seems they all have strange flaws, but mostly what I can’t stand is any delay in gui responsiveness. This is why I won’t use Firefox on Mac. I just can’t stand that nanosecond delay of opening a new window or tab. There [...]


About

People ask me all the time why I chose the name ’skwp’ as my online identity. It comes from a short story by Asimov that I read in my younger years. In this story, skwp is an alien scribe/translator who speaks myriad languages. Somehow this appealed to my senses, and besides it’s about as short [...]


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