Monthly Archives: February 2008

looks like people are rediscovering the beauty of pure vector graphics, and even taking it to the next level. Here is a great blog post with a collection of YouTube videos of some great oscilloscope demos. My favorite is the … Continue reading →

Chris pushes out a great post on how to get helpers working in the rails console. This and ‘rake routes’ are just fantastic timesavers. (note to self: good link to the RAILS REST routes, stuff here)

Today I saw a posting asking “what does this command do?” ls -R | grep “:$” | sed -e ‘s/:$//’ -e ‘s/[^-][^\/]*\//–/g’ -e ‘s/^/ /’ -e ‘s/-/|/’ Hint: it is related to my post which is now part 1. I … Continue reading →

If you need to create PDF files in windows, I highly recommend PDF Creator. This tool is free and open source (no up-sells, or crippled features). It basically allows you to print to a PDF (something that is already built-in … Continue reading →