Sep 13, 2007
On Monday my hosting service moved their servers. Ever since then requests on my site for URLs not ending in a backslash forward to crazedmonkey.nfshost.com. This means that if you access my transit map without including the backslash, the map will refuse to load because of inconsistencies with the Google Maps … Read more
Sep 12, 2007
This morning after having bought my coffee, I went to grab the honey from the self-serve area. Noticing it was missing, I checked above the espresso machine to see if it was there. As it wasn’t, I asked someone for it and they went to get a fresh one. Upon his return, he told me … Read more
Sep 12, 2007
I’ve recently created a project for my command-line image tiler for Google Maps on Google Code. Coincidentally, the official Google Maps API blog linked to my tool on Monday so hopefully there will be some interest in playing around with it.
Feb 5, 2007
At yesterday’s Toronto Transit Camp I was fortunate enough to speak with TTC chairman Adam Giambrone. I doubt that Giambrone was able to get a bite to eat, there were so many people wanting to speak with him. We spoke mostly about the new TTC website, … Read more
Feb 5, 2007
I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that yesterday’s Toronto Transit Camp was my first BarCamp-themed event. I’ve been to a couple DemoCamps, but never to a BarCamp. I’m horrible at gauging attendance, so when a pre-event registration of 80 people was announced, I was somehow envisioning a smaller gathering. Based on my DemoCamp … Read more
Git-flow is a Git plugin which makes it easier to follow a branching model involving feature, release and next release branches while preserving master as production-ready.
I hope I’m never in a situation where I have to inspect code in a .pyc file, but at least there’s a way.
Some common guidelines for clean deployments.
JavaScript is quickly becoming my go-to language where I need basic functionality along with a low barrier to entry for casual developers. Writing Selenium tests in JS seems like a good alternative to a DSL or cumbersome Java tests.
“[T]here is a partial Python implementation of the v2 [SPDY] draft that has seen some love and works with the current Chrome builds but (and herein lies another kink) only if you disable SSL support explicitly via the command line, which is a pain since it’s rather trivial to get the whole thing to work … Read more