Lava lamps for programming
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Programming |I just love this idea: integrating lava lamps to Cruise Control so that you can see when a software build has gone bad. The idea is to turn on a red lava lamp when the build failed, otherwise turn on a ...
Symfony project menus for Emacs
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in Programming, Symfony |After reading the Productive Programmer, I was inspired to write a custom script to add Symfony menus to my Emacs editor. After some frustration (I find emacs LISP tough to grok), I finally figured it out. (script is below) Anyway, here ...
British Motors installs 287 KW solar roof in San Francisco
Saturday, July 26th, 2008 Posted in Solar |It's enough to power 80 homes in SF and it offsets 14 million pounds of carbon over its lifetime, according to this Marketwatch article.
Crowds Overwhelm GoSolarSF Fair, Everyone Wants Solar
Saturday, July 26th, 2008 Posted in PHEV, Solar |I spent some time this afternoon speaking with various solar installers at the GoSolarSF fair at the Eureka Valley rec center. To say the fair was crowded would be an understatement. I wasn't able to speak to most of the ...
A SproutCore example by Johannes Fahrenkrug
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Programming, SproutCore |Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote a nice tutorial on building an OpenSocial app with SproutCore.
The Productive Programmer Book
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Programming |I just finished reading the Productive Programmer and I really like the suggestions, such as SLAP (single level of abstraction). The book isn't language specific, but it is Java-heavy in the examples. Still, everything is adaptable to other languages. There is ...
Fix Margins in IE6 with jQuery
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in jQuery |IE6's well known margin problems can be solved many ways, such as using CSS that only IE6 will read. I like to use CSS and jQuery as follows: CSS: #wrapper { margin: 0 auto; width: 800px; ... } .wrapperie6 { width: 810px !important; /* compensate for ...
I’m back
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Random Comment |Well it's been a long time since I've posted something. A part of that was the decision to move away from my custom blog code (mostly XSLT based, believe it or not!) to something much easier, Wordpress. In the process ...
