Less is more
2009 December 01
Hopefully you read my previous post about Sass and CSS preprocessors and felt my angst toward learning a new syntax. I've been using LessCSS for about a week and I'm really impressed. For starters, no new syntax to learn. This is simply an augmentation of existing CSS syntax. You get mixins, nested rules, and most importantly, variables. You also get operations but I've yet to find them that useful. Here's my critique
Message Queuing imports
2008 September 05
Last week I ran into some problems dealing with large book imports on [Readernaut](http://readernaut.com). I tested the system for around 50-100 books but had no idea people would upload lists of 900+ books. This begged the question, how do you handle importing very large sets of data before the browser times out?
Capistrano rules
2008 March 17
I've grown tired of committing changes to my subversion repository, logging into my server, updating my live checkout, and restarting python processes. I finally decided to implement Capistrano and eliminate this repetition.
Aspen Simulator
2008 March 13
As much as I'd like to blog about my trip to Austin and SXSW last week I'm just too excited over the iPhone SDK goodies that dropped last Thursday.
Care to scrum?
2007 October 17
We need more scrums and less meetings. A scrum is a 5-10 minute stand-up meeting. About 80% of the meetings I've ever attended have included at least five people. Any meeting over three becomes a presentation while one bloviates and others wander.
FTP bad, versioning good
2006 October 04
You may have noticed a little downtime Sunday evening. I was able to get the Domaki code under version control which I highly recommend. It allows you to kick FTP to the curb and do everything with "svn commit" and "update" commands.