Dragging tab to a new window coming to Firefox
Completely by accident, I discovered that you can now drag a tab out from its current window to a new window in a recent Firefox nightly. A short video 24-second better explains what I’m talking about:...
View ArticleI’m still alive, and on FriendFeed and Twitter
Wow, it seems like I haven’t posted anything this year. Don’t worry, you aren’t rid of me yet. I’m still alive and posting updates to FriendFeed and (less often) to Twitter. If you belong to what I...
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Don’t kill your app when using ActiveRecord in Rails Metal, release your...
Rails Metal has been available on Rails since version 2.3 – it’s old news. But if you haven’t used it or heard about it, you can find out more about Rails Metal on the RoR weblog and on Jesse Newland’s...
View ArticleA curl-ier Curb – better cookie support in Curb
As of Curb 0.3.7, Curb comes with slightly better cookie support that makes it more “curl-like”. It probably sounds like shameless self-promotion that I’m blogging about these changes since I’d...
View ArticleUpgraded to iPhone OS 3.0 and running out of battery fast?
After upgrading my girlfriend’s iPhone 3G to OS 3.0 recently, I noticed that the iPhone’s battery was getting depleted really quickly. I’d left it overnight with Wifi, 3G, Bluetooth, Push Notifications...
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Blog redesigned
After 5 long years of using the same old blog theme, which I’d handcrafted from scratch way back in 2004, I’ve finally got down to refreshing it to a more contemporary look. I’ve also updated the...
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How my simple iPhone app made it to the top of the App Store
Slightly more than a month back I wrote this little iPhone app (App Store link), almost a toy app really, to check the usage of my data plan with my local telco (Singtel). I wanted to scratch an itch...
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Firefox quick tip: view images in a new tab quickly
A mini-tip on viewing images quickly in a new tab in Firefox. Useful for web devs who want to look at the URL of an image quickly. As an example, here’s the Youtube webpage of the owner of Maru the...
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Stop and Reload buttons merged in Firefox
A minor UI improvement to Firefox has been made to Firefox and it’s currently only available on nightly builds of Firefox: the Stop and Reload buttons have been merged into a single button. This change...
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Setting up virtualization on Ubuntu with KVM
These instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) 64-bit. Skip right to the instructions if you’re short on time. After being a happy Xen user for several years now, I’ve recently had to...
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Railscasts Xcode theme
For those of you who use the excellent Railscasts TextMate theme and want to replicate the theme in Xcode, you can grab my version from Github. This is what it looks like: Save it into...
View ArticleRendering plists from your Rails app
Jeena emailed me recently about his Rails plugin, plistifier, that allows you to render plists (property lists). It allows you to render your ActiveRecord objects as plists (among other things): def...
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Firefox nightly builds add a combined Stop/Go/Refresh button to the Location Bar
In an effort to streamline Firefox’s UI, the latest Firefox nightly builds have moved the Stop/Refresh button into the right corner of the Location Bar. I like this move even if the Firefox developers...
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Summer 2011 anime (and some from Spring 2011)
Some of you might know that I’m a rabid anime fan. I don’t talk much about it on this blog (actually, I don’t talk much on this blog anymore, seeing as I haven’t blogged this year). Anyway, yeah, one...
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Installing Powerline on OS X + homebrew
I’ve always wanted to get that fancy Powerline status bar and prompt. Chevrons and git branch icons in the terminal just sounds so… defying: I’d failed to get it working properly before because of a...
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