Monthly Archives: June 2010

rake task for extracting database contents

This is the inverse of db:fixtures:load. I modified the version I found to take the FIXTURES environment variable as a parameter. Saved as gist 440058. # extract_fixtures.rake # by Paul Schreiber <paulschreiber at gmail.com> # 15 June 2010 # # … Continue reading

Why I don’t like Salsa labs, reason #1

They don’t support Safari or Chrome: Here’s what goes wrong:

TIFF file dimensions in Ruby

Using Ruby, I wanted to get the dimensions of image files without using a full-on image library. I found handy code for PNG, BMP, GIF and JPEG and adapted the JPEG code for TIFF. Saved as gist 431893. # TIFF.rb … Continue reading

The truth about what motivates us

(via White African)

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Work

A big part of your job is asking other people how to do your job (better).

Stand behind what you say

“I don’t care what you, or you shouldn’t care what I have to say if I’m not willing to put my name behind it.” — Daniel Okrent