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How to stop killing people with your public speeches

3 months ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Let’s do the math. If you give a speech to 200 people for 30 minutes you are consuming 100 hours of human life. Giving an hour-long talk to a thousand people...

How to stop killing people with your public speeches

3 months ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Let’s do the math. If you give a speech to 200 people for 30 minutes you are consuming 100 hours of human life. Giving an hour-long talk to a thousand...

Never fear $ in READMEs again

8 months ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Ever see example shell commands like this and wish you could paste them in? Fear no more. A pastie is at hand. Here’s how to install it: In your ...

Trialing RedCar instead of TextMate – replacing my aliases

9 months ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I’m interested to trial RedCar in my life, instead of TextMate. So I need RedCar to appear on my screen whenever I think “give me an editor...

Making CI easier to do than not to with Hudson CI and Vagrant

~1 year ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
It irked me a little that I could develop on one stack (OS X, Rubinius, Sqlite3), run continuous integration (CI) on another stack (Ubuntu, Ruby 1.8.7,...

Coming to America

over 1 year ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Have you ever looked at your biological watch and thought, “it looks like it’s time to change the world?” My biological time piece has...

Packaging TextMate bundles in OS X DMGs

over 1 year ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Last week Engine Yard released a CLI for their Engine Yard AppCloud. Delights such as: ey deploy ey rebuild ey logs ey ssh They simultaneously released...

Validate and Save your Ruby in TextMate – with secret Rubinus superpowers

over 1 year ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
In some TextMate bundles, if you save a file it will also validate the file and show any syntax errors in a tooltip. This is awesome. (e.g. JavaScript and...

Showcase of CoffeeScript – 2.5 mins for your next Dev Group meeting

over 1 year ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
If you are giving an “Introduction to CoffeeScript” talk at your local developer group in the future, I have a 2:30min video you might find...

How to make a good home-made Open Source

almost 2 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Want to be the funniest person at the next hacker’s picnic? Point at a bottle of red ketchup with its lid next to it on the table and pronounce &...