Last year when the Rude Mechanical Orchestra was recording our second album, Too Big To Fail, I shot some video. I finally got it all edited with the recording from the album. If you like it you can listen to or download the full album on the band’s website.
Read more →Finished another video a couple weeks back and forgot to post it here. I’ve been trying to go through a lot of the footage I shot while I was in NYC and turn it into projects. I’ve got a few more in the queue that I hope to get out over the next month. I hope you like it.
Read more →Posting that last video made me realize I’ve been really bad about keeping up on this whole blog thing. I hadn’t said anything about getting married to Deana back in August, or packing up and leaving New York, the month we spent in Reno while I found a job and apartment here in Berkeley. Well, that all happened and at some point it’ll end up in a video.
Read more →I’ve been doing some work on my resume and my summary kept starting to sound like a manifesto. I decided it was better to just simplify the resume and turn this into a blog post.
Read more →I finally finished this video about our honeymoon in California. I’m really happy with how it turned out, it’s definitely the best thing I’ve shot and edited to date.
Read more →My last week at DoSomething I spent some time working on getting better metrics on which panel pages are slow. One half of that was to use New Relic’s PHP API to provide better transaction names that included the node type and panel name:
Read more →I wanted to be able to have a fabric script report a code deployment to New Relic and eventually after brushing up on my python worked this snippet out:
Read more →This is the process I used to publish a pecl channel for phpredis to GitHub pages. You can read the full background on the issue.
Read more →The instructions still need some work. I’d did some updating but haven’t tried using it with a clean install yet. After reading this it sounds like there’s some bigger changes. I’ve also been trying to switch from macports to homebrew so that’ll also mean some changes to this.
Read more →Dan and I shot this last summer but it took a while to get it finished up. The next one is going to be even better.
Read more →I was half way done adding some info how to setup pecl/pear to my guide to running Drupal 6 on OS X 10.6 before I realized I’d been running Lion for almost nine months. So it seemed like a good excuse to update it for Lion. These might be a little wonky since I did an upgrade rather than a clean install so if you notice anything please drop me a line.
Read more →Found some more time to work on my fullfeeds project over the weekend. Finally getting into Node’s everything happens in a callback spirit, and managing to not make it look like spagetti code. Discovering the async module really helped but I’ve probably gone a little overboard with it.
Read more →I’m working on a Pipe Mania/Dream
clone for iOS using cocos2d. I was able to
quickly implement the board using the CCTMXTiledMap component, but
then when I started trying to figure out how to setup a sprite preview the next
piece I got stuck. I’d intended to try to document all the false starts I took
before figuring this solution out, but I waited too long before doing the
writeup.
My Uncle Hugh called me up last year asking if I knew anyone who could help him get a website setup—he’s very polite like that—for a book he’d written on the housing crisis. Once he said he didn’t really care what it looked like—and I knew I wouldn’t have to do a bunch of themeing—I knew I’d be able to set him up something simple using Drupal, so of course I offered to help. It was a nice change from the normal insanity of incomplete specs and legacy requirements that the day jobs always entail. I got to just plug together off the shelf modules and enjoy using Drupal for a change.
Read more →I was trying to find some docs on how to use Drupal’s JavaScript behaviors system to send to some people at work and realized that two years after D6 was released it was still poorly documented. The JavaScript and jQuery page had good examples of how to get JavaScript onto the page from a module or theme but didn’t really discuss what to do from that point. I spent some time adding some documentation to the page on drupal.org but wanted to put a copy here for Google’s benefit.
Read more →I wanted to use memcached but didn’t want to compile all the dependencies by hand and wanted to use the stock version of Apache that ships with OS X so I cobbled together the following instructions.
Read more →I just picked up a new Mac mini servers to replace the one that’s been my desktop machine for over 2 years. The new server version has two 500GB hard drives (as opposed to the single 120GB drive I’ve been working with) but no optical drive. That seemed like a bit of an inconvenience since I just bought a MacBook Air and it doesn’t have an optical drive either so I picked up a SuperDrive that I can use with either.
Read more →At Sony we’re looking for a distributed version control system to replace Subversion—primarily Git and Mercurial. I’m very familiar with Git but hadn’t done much with Mercurial so it seemed like a good idea to use it for a couple of weeks and learn the quirks. Since I’m stuck using Subversion I decided to see if it would be feasible to use Mercurial as a “super client” working locally then pushing changes back to svn. A little Googling turned up two candidates hgsvn and hgsubversion. hgsubversion extends the commands pushing and pulling changes, giving a more native experience, so it seemed like the best choice for learning the system.
Read more →Here’s yet another blog post to document something so stupid that I hope to never do it again, but know I will. I spent the better part of the afternoon trying to get the PECL memcache extension working with the PHP 5.2 part of a MAMP installation and finally managed to get it working.
Read more →After two days of trying to use OS 4 on my iPhone 3G I’m sad to report that it’s a very un-Apple like release. It’s slower, it breaks a bunch of games and doesn’t offer any compelling features. I’d go as far as to say they should probably have only released it for the iPhone 3GS.
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