A collection of the author's ill-informed opinions which he considers worth sharing with the general public.
There are a million ways to perform the oft required task of turning that pile of .doc files into a new pile of pdfs. Here's yet another approach, but this one actually works.
A placeholder image server on Sinatra & RMagick.
A conduit from TextExpander to the Faker gem for generating realistic user data
A Snippet and supporting Ruby scripts for generating sequences in TextExpander on OS X.
A gem to make ActionMailer HTML emails a little more user-friendly.
An article on the Guardian about the morality of file-sharing has annoyed me. Not the article itself, more the attitude of some of the commenters.
Over on less everything, Steven Bristol makes the very good point that Ruby on Rails' mass-assignment shortcut can be horrible, horrible security hole.
Dave Dribin (via Gruber) writes about the problems with Spaces, the new OS X virtual desktop manager. It's an interesting read, but there's one problem he mentions that's readily fixable.
SmileOnMyMac have released TextExpander 2.0 with some updates that allow for nice scripts.
Here's a little tip for OS X mini-application: TextExpander.
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