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First day at Github

almost 2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Today’s my first day at Github. Leaving ENTP and ActiveReload was a hard decision, but I really felt like it was time to move on to something new. I...

Will the iPad kill comic books?

almost 2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Those of you that know me should know how much I’m into comic books. Pretty much ever since the iPhone came out, I’ve longed for a “giant iPhone...

My Lesson in Bootstrapping

almost 2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
John Nunemaker wrote up his experiences in bootstrapping Harmony with Steve Smith. He makes a lot of great points that have been working out for them....

Dealing with $LOAD_PATH properly

almost 2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
I recently went through a process of consolidating a few backend miniapps that power some boring parts of Lighthouse and Tender. I upgraded one app to...

Ruby 1.9 on Heroku

almost 2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Heroku just pushed their new deployment stacks to public beta. You can now run your Heroku apps on Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9 (as opposed to the old standard:To...

My talk about Twitter-Node at PDXJS

almost 2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
I was recently invited to talk about my Twitter Node project at last night’s PDX Javascript Admirers meeting. I was really nervous about giving my first...

Where's Waldo: Track user locations with Node.js and Redis

~2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Where’s Waldo is my little node.js/Redis project to keep track of users in an app. Say hi! Tracking hits on every request can get costly, and I didn...

Node.js For My Tiny Ruby Brain: Keeping Promises

~2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
I’ve been hacking on node.js for a week now. I won’t go into why I think it’s awesome, you probably already know (thanks to bloggers like Simon Willison...

A note on the Github/Twitter Proxy

~2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
In my last post, I made a quick note about how the FriendlyORM had some issues in Postgres. I made a few quick hacks (all in the interest of finishing...

Get your Github news feed in Tweetie

~2 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
A few weeks ago, I started hacking on twitter-server, an API wrapper for the Twitter API. It’s a Sinatra extension, where I toyed with the idea of adding...