June 2010
3 posts
“dream it, believe it, achieve it”
– paraphrased
The iPad is art. I think you should buy one. Let... →
April 2010
7 posts
Watchpaulkawai:
Nicholas de Monchaux’s Local Code project. More on this amazing project here.
From quarks to galaxies →
Fantastic and simple flash visualization that takes you from the ultra small (Einstein foam, strings) to the ultra large (IC 1101, Milky Way).
Does a great job making you feel small and large at the same time.
“Stand up and be remarkable”
I went custom
Sometimes deciding to pick up your socks and do something you have always wanted to do pays off. Don’t settle for things that aren’t right for you. But don’t fight with them or struggle for change. That will put you more behind.
Accept the lack of a good solution to your problem.
Go to sleep.
Do nothing.
Then do everything.
Remember what’s important and why you are...
When to go custom?
When do you stop compromising for someone else’s software and when do you decide to make it yourself?
This applies to plugins, libraries and even whole systems. Obviously, we aren’t going to re-write Gmail everytime a feature crops up that we want, but when do you say
Gmail is great… but it’s not suiting our needs. We need something different that doesn’t really...
“Lose your self to find you.”
After a short vacation...
After a close NDE, I have decided to breath some life back into this tumble log.
I will continue to blog mainly about programming and geek stuff at Ewakened Thinking.
That’s it for now.
Fly Porter... seriously... whenever you can
Recently got home from a nice weekend vaction in Quebec City and had a fantastic time. This was mainly due to the great company, but partially because of how easy it was to get there. We decided to fly instead of drive and we made the best choice by choosing Porter.
Porter’s tagline is “Flying Refinded” and they are right. You actually feel like a VIP when you fly Porter. ...
March 2009
1 post
Reading a Book in Progress
Just posted some thoughts about reading the Real World Haskell. It’s a really cool concept and something I have wanted to read for a long time. I learned Haskell in R.D Tennant’s class at Queen’s back in 2004 and really liked it, but never fully understood it. Now that I know more about functional programming and programming in general its a much easier read. I think...
February 2009
2 posts
Happy and Confused with Mozilla's Bespin
I am sure that clairity will come. Needless to say I am very eager to learn more and experiemnt with Bespin.
A Really Simple SDK
So I have finally gotten past all of the hurdles of making an iPhone version of my thesis software called Friend Forecaster. Well, let me be honest, I didn’t write an iPhone app in fact I wrote a lot of Ruby and HTML to make this happen. I used the most basic API and I think the powerful one… I used the web.
It’s not a new idea to think of the web as a platform or as an...
January 2009
6 posts
Super Simple Rails Database Data Dump
So after searching for a long time and trying to become an expert using mysqldump, I have found, yaml_db.
yaml_db is the easiest, fastest, most reliable way to transfer your production data to your development database and vice versa. It runs a rake task that pushes everything into a file called data.yaml, then loads it back into another database using a similiar rake task.
Dump :: rake...
Great night for ProspectLinker
Just had a great night of coding and working on ProspectLinker.
Look for some big stuff landing tomorrow!
ProspectLinker
Intentions are the new resolutions
Resolutions are so 2008! Well no, not really, but I feel like people see resolutions as a chance to convince themselves that things will be different, but that’s counterproductive. The simple truth is that nothing is wrong. There is nothing broken in your life, there are no problems, everything is perfect, it’s all a matter of perspective and mindset. Everything is really two...
Watchchrisbraden:
Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
“If you ask me to show you God, I will point to the sun, or a tree, or a worm.”
– A. Watts
December 2008
17 posts
“All this is full. All that is full. From fullness, fullness comes.”
– OM Isha
Shopping and iPhones
I think iPhones were invented for people waiting for people to finish shopping, it’s amazing how everyone outside the changerooms and sitting on the benches are using iPhones to pass the time.
I love it, I think apple should use that as a marketing campaign at Christmas.
“I am always sincere but never serious”
– Alan Watts
Crazy Collaboration with BeanBucket coming soon →
Let's open source the worlds ideas
Check for some amazing open source ideas in the coming weeks. Not one of us will have the answer alone, but together we can make it happen.
ProspectLinker is Live Baby →
“Sleep is overrated. All you need is a solid 10 minutes to recharge the AAs in...”
– Kent Fenwick
“When you change the way you look at things, you change the things you are...”
Don't mix your Prototype and jQuery
So I just spent over 2 hours debugging some javascript only to realize that the problem was that I was using some Prototype methods and some jQuery methods.
I eneded up going with Prototype in the end.
Moral of the story… don’t mix your awesome Javascript libraries.
“Are we learning Computer Science or Computer Pop-Culture?”
– Alan Kay
Is this a good definition for the semantic web?
The semantic web is a framework consisting of multiple technologies that aim to classify all of the resources on the web that are worth classifying thus creating a standard web resource taxonomy.
November 2008
12 posts
Grammar, Vonnegut Style
Is it bad that after reading most of Kurt Vonnegut’s cannon over the years the one thing that really sticks out in my mind is a part of the last book he wrote, A Man Without a Country.
He talks about how good writers should never use the ; (semi-colon) and should always use commas instead. I think it’s funny that MS Word always highlights this.
I conclude that Kurt Vonnegut...
“in the beginning there was om”
“Im so fast…. that last nigth I turned off the light switch and
was in bed...”
– Cassius Clay
WatchGreat video of Chad Fowler at a Michigan XP user group meeting. Amazing all of the things he has accomplished in such a short time. Very inspiring guy.
“You have to love your software and you have to love your tools.”
– Dave Thomas
Make it happen
Today was a great day of ideas. Christina is the best objective place to get real feedback. Stay posted to see what happens.
Got me thinking about ideas, so many people have them but so few of us act on them. Let’s change that. Seems like that would be easy to do. Let’s do it.
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought”
– Buddha