see a puffin eat a fish

Has anyone played with this thing? It’s awesome. Of course your charts are at the whim of Google’s servers, but this by far beats anything out there if you want a quick and dirty chart. Zero startup costs, just generate a URL.
If you don’t want to deal with deciphering […]

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One of the most basic data structures that I use frequently is an associative array — also known as a hash, map, or dictionary. Associative arrays allow for non-integer indexes. For example:
pup[’stick’] = delicious
ActionScript 3 provides a dictionary object which isn’t very pleasant to use. You want to use a […]

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I got to attend GoRuCon today, a conference for Ruby/Rails hackers held at Pace University. I do so much Rails work on my own so it’s nice to get out and talk to other developers, see what they are up to and catch up on the current state of the art. The […]

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Here’s a very cool thing I just discovered in MySQL. Duplicate records in a db are the bane of the software developer. If you have the opportunity to generate the original table schema and set up the primary keys beforehand, that’s great, but if you’re given a table after the fact and […]

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Introduction:
What’s Your 20? (WY20) leverages Fire Eagle and your mobile device to help you keep track of your location. By recording what are usually considered less interesting trips (a subway ride into the city as opposed to a flight to Florence), WY20 facilitates the mapping of your everyday travels. WY20 both lets you […]

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