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Some of you might know that I’m a rabid anime fan. I don’t talk much about it on this blog (actually, I don’t talk much on this blog anymore, seeing as I haven’t blogged this year). Anyway, yeah, one of my biggest passions and failings is my love for anime and I can’t stop myself ... 
The latest Firefox nightly builds have moved the Stop/Reload button into the right corner of the Location Bar. When you’re typing in the Location Bar, a green Go button is shown: That switches to a red Stop button when the page is loading: The thin line you see in the location bar is a progress ...
Jeena emailed me recently about his Rails plugin, plistifier, that allows you to render plists (property lists).It allows you to render your ActiveRecord objects as plists (among other things):def show @post = Post.find(params[:id ]) respond_to do |format| format.xml { render :xml => @post } format.plist { ...
For those of you who use the excellent Railscasts TextMate theme and want to replicate the theme in Xcode, you can grab my version from Github. This is what it looks like:Save it into ~/Library/Applicatio n Support/Xcode/Color Themes/, restart Xcode, and open its Preferences. You will be able to pick the Railscasts Color Theme in the ... 
For those of you who use the excellent Railscasts TextMate theme and want to replicate the theme in Xcode, you can grab my version from Github. This is what it looks like:Save it into ~/Library/Applicatio n Support/Xcode/Color Themes/, restart Xcode, and open its Preferences. You will be able to pick the Railscasts Color Theme in the ... 
These instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) 64-bit. Skip right to the instructions if you’re short on time.After being a happy Xen user for several years now, I’ve recently had to switch to an alternative virtualization solution. My colleague Arun (@iamclovin) actually struggled for a week with Xen VMs that locked up on ... 
These instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) 64-bit. Skip right to the instructions if you’re short on time.After being a happy Xen user for several years now, I’ve recently had to switch to an alternative virtualization solution. My colleague Arun (@iamclovin) actually struggled for a week with Xen VMs that locked up on ... 
A minor UI improvement to Firefox has been made to Firefox and it’s currently only available on nightly builds of Firefox: the Stop and Reload buttons have been merged into a single button. This change should make it into Firefox 3.6.While a page is loading, the button acts as a Stop button:When it’s done loading, ... 
A minor UI improvement to Firefox has been made to Firefox and it’s currently only available on nightly builds of Firefox: the Stop and Reload buttons have been merged into a single button. This change should make it into Firefox 3.6.While a page is loading, the button acts as a Stop button:When it’s done loading, ... 
A mini-tip on viewing images quickly in a new tab in Firefox. Useful for web devs who want to look at the URL of an image quickly.As an example, here’s the Youtube webpage of the owner of Maru the Cat:To open the thumbnail image of Maru in a new tab, right-click the image, and then ... 
A mini-tip on viewing images quickly in a new tab in Firefox. Useful for web devs who want to look at the URL of an image quickly.As an example, here’s the Youtube webpage of the owner of Maru the Cat:To open the thumbnail image of Maru in a new tab, right-click the image, and then ... 
Slightly more than a month back I wrote this little iPhone app (App Store link), almost a toy app really, to check the usage of my data plan with my local telco (Singtel). I wanted to scratch an itch and I also really didn’t want to exceed my data plan – the fees are excessive.Anyway, ...
After 5 long years of using the same old blog theme, which I’d handcrafted from scratch way back in 2004, I’ve finally got down to refreshing it to a more contemporary look. I’ve also updated the woefully outdated About page.Here’s a before and after shot:I think it’s much better, definitely more modern and minimalist.The new ...
After upgrading my girlfriend’s iPhone 3G to OS 3.0 recently, I noticed that the iPhone’s battery was getting depleted really quickly. I’d left it overnight with Wifi, 3G, Bluetooth, Push Notifications all off, and the battery went from 80% to a jaw-dropping OMGWTFBBQ 10%.I attributed it to the recent jailbreak (I’ve already removed the jailbreak ...
As of Curb 0.3.7, Curb comes with slightly better cookie support that makes it more “curl-like”.It probably sounds like shameless self-promotion that I’m blogging about these changes since I’d contributed them. Well, yeah that’s true, but I’m also doing so because I doubt these changes will ever be made known since Curb doesn’t …
Rails Metal has been available on Rails since version 2.3 – it’s old news. But if you haven’t used it or heard about it, you can find out more about Rails Metal on the RoR weblog and on Jesse Newland’s blog.So anyway, I am one of those laggards and only wrote a Rails Metal piece ...
Wow, it seems like I haven’t posted anything this year. Don’t worry, you aren’t rid of me yet. I’m still alive and posting updates to FriendFeed and (less often) to Twitter.If you belong to what I imagine must be now the microscopic population of loyal readers of my blog, please do hook up with me ...
Wow, it seems like I haven’t posted anything this year. Don’t worry, you aren’t rid of me yet. I’m still alive and posting updates to FriendFeed and (less often) to Twitter.If you belong to what I imagine must be now the microscopic population of loyal readers of my blog, please do hook up with me ...
Completely by accident, I discovered that you can now drag a tab out from its current window to a new window in a recent Firefox nightly. A short video 24-second better explains what I’m talking about:This tab tearing capability is a pretty neat feature – I know you can already do this in Safari, Opera ...
Completely by accident, I discovered that you can now drag a tab out from its current window to a new window in a recent Firefox nightly. A short video 24-second better explains what I’m talking about:This tab tearing capability is a pretty neat feature - I know you can already do this in Safari, Opera ...
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