A few years back, I had an idea for a website that would let me track all of the console video games I wanted to buy, set a price, and then forget about them until the games finally reached my price threshold. I made a few half-hearted stabs at bu...
I’m very excited to announce that my newest iPhone/iPad app, Doppler for Heroku, is now available in the App Store. There is also a product website that shows you how easy it is to manage your Heroku apps from the iPhone. I wrote Doppler because a...
Hey guess what!? In my copious amounts of spare time (aka nights and weekends), I put together a new iPhone application called Fair on a Stick. It’s an interactive iPhone guide to the 2010 Minnesota State Fair, and—best of all—it’ll be totally fre...
Damn, Rita Hayworth was gorgeous.
I finally pulled the trigger on my minimum viable product concept. I started working on the website and developing some more refined screenshots of the concept a couple days back, bought a perfect domain name two nights ago (http://www.[REDACTED]....
(This is the redacted version of a blog post I will update in the future. I’m redacting certain bits of information since there is virtually no moat or secret sauce outside of the novelty of the idea and an opportunity to get out in front of other...
I picked up an iPad on release day, but didn’t bother to get the Apple Bluetooth keyboard until today. Here are a couple quick thoughts about it: This is the only way to type on an iPad. It turns the device from a content consumption mech...
John Gruber: 12-word review of “A Serious Man”: So much for the Coen brothers never having made a bad movie. Where by “review” Gruber means “140 characters of obnoxious drivel.” (truth be told, I haven’t seen A Serious Man yet, but I couldn’t pa...
Running into undefined_method errors with Thinking Sphinx and sphinx scopes? Make sure you define your sphinx_scope after the define_index block, instead of before. Simple, huh? In other words, make sure your ActiveRecord classes look like this...
</param></param></param></embed> The name is terrible. Would Windows 7 Phone have been so bad? Really? The fact that the videographer talking with Gian Wilson from Microsoft can’t pronounce the OS’ name doesn’t bode well for anyone else. Everyone...