Meet Tembed a Ruby C extension

Alright, so you're testing fancy fonts in the lovely browsers, then bam IE keeps spewing installable embedding not allowed and fonts are broken. But the Google God points to Andre Backlund fontfixer.

Hallelujah! One font fixed, only a few more to...

Kibana 4.1 on Heroku

At Issue, we handle lots of data. When you have millions of data points, patterns emerge and valuable info can be gleaned and harnessed from your data.

We like ELK stack and Heroku. But before Kibana 4, you had to setup a web server, say nginx, to...

Opal Hack why-o-why?

cdmarto posted Opal Runner flyer photo at …opal runner service… - reddit

Public's opinion is mixed. Some are neutral, some for, while others are against.

Neutral: I met someone...

Opal Runner

People synthesize new ideas in a social context. When people are unbounded by distance, the rate of new ideas being synthesized is increased. Some of those ideas will have profound impact on humanity for the better. In other words, efficient public...

Rename file extension on command line interface

Since I have never taken the time to learn a "modern" integrated development environment (IDE) tool, I do most of my work on the command line. As a side effect, I can be productive on any environment that has command line interface.

Here're two ways...

Relaunch on middleman

Bye Svbtle, say hello to middleman.

I've been looking for an easy to use blogging platform with nice code syntax highlighting. Svbtle fits the bill but net connection is required to blog which slows down the read-eval-print-loop (REPL) to be productive...

ruby fun

ok, let's get straight into irb because REPL speaks a thousand words…

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irb> %w_a b c_
=> ['a', 'b', 'c']

That was cryptic…try this

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irb> %i_a b c_
=> [:a, :b, :c]

That save a whole bunch of keystrokes…how about this

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irb> %r_a/b/c_
=...

Bundler tips

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$ bundle
Fetching source index from http://rubygems.org/
Fetching source index from https://rubygems.org/

time for coffee break…but then I found this tip on bundler FAQ

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$ bundle install --full-index

How much faster is it? Your mileage may...

Financial System Inquiry

Time to exercise your citizenship rights. Here is my Financial System Inquiry Submission on Stability - Addressing too-big-to-fail

To David Murray

The enactment of United States of America Glass Steagall Act 1933, here in Australia, is merely a necessary...

nginx pow coexistence

I am a user of

Pow, is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X…serving your apps locally in under a minute

and

nginx, [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server

Now, pow is good for rack app but nothing else. But if nginx sits in front...