Quote of the Week: F.A. Hayek
“Freedom and liberty are now words so worn with use and abuse that one must hesitate to employ them to express the ideals for which they [used to stand.]” — F.A. Hayek
“Freedom and liberty are now words so worn with use and abuse that one must hesitate to employ them to express the ideals for which they [used to stand.]” — F.A. Hayek
indieconf, Raleigh’s first conference for freelancers, took place Saturday, November 13th at the McKimmon Center near NCSU. It was, in a word, exceptional. And they had brownies. I was only able to attend the afternoon sessions, but the content was fantastic. It was even better getting a chance to interact … Continue reading
A recent project required the latest YouTube videos from a specific user to be listed inside a Radiant page. There wasn’t an existing extension that did this so I built my own. youtube_tags is based on the excellent twitter_tags extension. It enables inclusion of YouTube videos within Radiant pages using … Continue reading
I built the original Spreedly extension for Radiant a couple of years ago. It’s a nice little package that makes it really easy to integrate Spreedly’s subscription payment system with your Radiant site. You can choose which pages to require a subscription to view, manage subscribers from the admin backend, … Continue reading
I’ll be presenting on A/B testing at tonight’s raleigh.rb meetup. As developers, we use tools like RSpec and Cucumber to verify that our application is functional, but how can we verify that the layout of our home page is user-friendly? How can we determine the ideal size for our signup … Continue reading
I just returned from BizConf (a fantastic experience which I’ll be summarizing in a future post) and I have to report one very sad thing: out of four airports I passed through, RDU is still the only one that doesn’t offer free wi-fi. Nashville, Tampa, and Jacksonville all have it. … Continue reading
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.” — H.G. Wells
Git is a wonderful SCM with some very powerful features. But as a programmer, it’s very easy to aquire a rudimentary working knowledge of Git and never learn anything more. For example, how would we fix our repository if we committed the wrong piece of code? What if our commit … Continue reading
“Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a socio-political nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness.” — Jack O’Neill, Stargate SG-1
“I love this place at night. The stars… there’s no right or wrong in them. They’re just there.” — Sgt. Elias, Platoon