Great video tour of Akihabara Tokyo. We were there and I recognize some of the locations. It’s even funnier on a Sunday though when people in the streets dress as their favourite character.
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Category Archives: tech
Developing with subdomains
Every now and then I am working on a project that uses subdomains extensively. Up until now I had to use my local hosts file and a bunch of hosts I had to maintain by hand. Tiresome. Now thankfully there’s smackaho.st and the more concisely named lvh.me. These DNS entries point to 127.0.0.1 and have wildcard support too. Neat.
Overnumerousness
The IT Crowd is brilliant. This little clip doesn’t make sense if you don’t know the series, so if you don’t, fetch it from teh intertubes and LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdEadrw4O0U
I heart git
You only appreciate fast version control when you’re on a slow link. Thank you Linus for creating git, I would have gone insane without it today!
Rails on Google App Engine
Google has just announced Java support for their App Engine. So what? Ruby on Rails on teh Google is what! Yes, sir, you too can deploy your Rails application absolutely free on Google’s infrastructure. See this post for more details. Nice. Wanna bet that Google will natively support Ruby in the future? (thanks Daniël)
First International Longest Tweet Contest
How many data can you put in a Tweet? Well, 140 characters. Think again. By using encoding software, like ZIP, you can put a whole lot more into one little Tweet. There is even an International Longest Tweet Contest for it. The record is something like 4000 characters!
Cross-browser HTML5 audio tag
HTML5, the next version of the language of the web, is a wonderful thing. It’s a real step forward in terms of semantics and making browsers more powerful. Any day now I will relaunch a major website done completely in HTML5. Working on that, I discovered some caveats implementing the audio tag.
Teh ultimate email regexp
Validating e-mail addresses can be a pain. Most of the time you want some syntax checking, just to prevent the most horrible abuse. But more often than not some actual e-mail address pops up that is invalidated by your regular expression. Continue reading
Open Source ftw
I love open source. And I love contributing to open source projects. Every time one of my patches is accepted into a project, I can’t help but smile.
Art with an internet connection
A nice piece of art: A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter is a black box with an internet connection. Every time someone buys it, it seeks connection to the internet and after seven days places a bid on eBay for itself.