Padrino and the Asset Pipeline

Submitted by tedkulp on Fri, 11/25/2011 - 22:18

I've been messing with Padrino a bit over the past couple of weeks.
There are several smallish apps that I've thought that Rails was a
little bit of overkill for. However, what I didn't realize that I was
missing was the Asset Pipeline. It's terribly useful, especially if you
tend to mix technologies together in the same app. Once you get into the
habit of using it, it gets hard to go without.

Impressions on Android

Submitted by tedkulp on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 04:59

(Note: I actually started writing this over a week ago. I can probably
rewrite some of it at this point, but I'm going to keep it written with
the feel that I just got the phone a day or two ago.)

Before I became an iPhone user in early 2008, I was rocking the Treo for
years. From the first day that I fixed a client's problem via email
while out to dinner, I was hooked on the idea of a Smartphone. This is
obviously not a great thing for everyone, but in my particular line of
work, it was indispensable. Not that the Treo was very smart.

The LFD Experiment

Submitted by tedkulp on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 16:27

I've slowly been getting back into playing again. I'm not sure what keeps drawing me back in, but it always seems to happen after the summer is over and things get back to "normal". Some of my friends had starting picking back up, and I guess I just jumped back in.

Standing Desk Switch

Submitted by tedkulp on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 20:51

I work for myself, from home. There are a lot of positives about this
fact... I have no commute, I have a lot of flexibility in my schedule,
and the coffee is a lot better. But, it does have negatives as well. For
instance, it could literally be days between the times that I leave the
house. Since my job is software engineering, it also means I spend 8-10
hours a day at my desk, sitting in the chair, slowly shortening my
lifespan.

Using Pow for PHP (or anything on Apache)

Submitted by tedkulp on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 11:41

When I reinstalled my system w/ Lion a few weeks back, I decided to
start using Pow! as my "web server" of choice. I've been spending a
lot more time in Rails over the past few months because of my day job
and wasn't really relying on my Apache/PHP installation as much. I
delegated Apache off to port 8080 while Pow took port 80 over because it
was just too convenient.

Wonderworks

Submitted by tedkulp on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 07:04

Wonderworks in Myrtle Beach is one of the neatest buildings I've seen
in awhile. Basically a building constructed to look like it fell upside
down on top of another one. The light was perfect, so I propped my arm
on a handrail and grabbed a 2+2 stop HDR.

Switch to Octopress

Submitted by tedkulp on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 08:26

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled on the Octopress
project. It's essentially a cleaned up framework around the Jekyll
blogging "engine" that Github Pages uses (an my site). It gives it a
clean HTML 5 template, some nice plugins, etc. Since it's essentially
just a pretty version of Jekyll, I knew that it would be possible to
swtich with minimal work and saved it for when I was on vacation and
looking for little personal projects to work on.

Tunnel

Submitted by tedkulp on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 09:29



Taken w/ Instagram

Almost Home

Submitted by tedkulp on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 20:41



Taken w/ Instagram

Running Folder Actions automatically on USB devices

Submitted by tedkulp on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 22:14

The last piece of my new camera kit arrived today and I was eager to try
it out. The AGL 3080 GPS Unit is a small device designed for
geotagging your photos. When you're head out on a photo walk, you flip
it on, throw it in your bag and go about your business. When you get
home and dump your pictures, you use special software to link the
timestamps on the photos with the GPS "trail" of information and the
photos are magically tagged precisely with where they were taken.

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