NakedSushi

After using the Nook for a little less than a week, I can justifiably say that ebook readers, are maybe just not for me for the time being.  When the more known Kindle first came out, I had gadget-envy just because e-ink was so different than the LCD screens I’ve grown accustomed to.  It was [...]

My friend Jessica showed me the Project 365 iPhone app (iTunes link) which inspired me to finally try my hand at Project 365 this year. In a nutshell, it’s taking one picture for every day of the year so that at the end of the year, I have a picture diary. The main hurdle [...]

One thing that really irks me when developing is bad error messages. Bad as in unhelpful. Bad as in vague. Bad as in “WTF, I fixed the problem, but I still don’t know what that error message meant.”

That message was caused by me passing in a hash instead of an array of hashes. Luckily, I [...]

Note: I took the download link down because there was one crucial step I forgot to list.  I’ll revise this and repost it in a few days after I figure out the workflow for that step.
If, like me, you have tons of pictures on your Flickr.com account which you use on your blog, you probably [...]

I was already a fan of a Martinez over a Martini and making it with Ransom Old Tom Gin is a real treat. The gin is an unusual (for gin) brown color and has slightly sweeter taste to it thanks to the added malt. I like it because it doesn’t taste like a [...]

The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David Black
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was suggested to me by someone as a helpful book for someone new to the language but not new to programming in general. I found this more helpful than the Pickaxe book because it’s concise with examples while being detailed in the [...]

No, PC gaming is not dead. Far from it. I’ve been playing a lot of Torchlight during my spare time lately. It’s a dungeon crawling loot-stravaganza for the uninitiated. The UI is great. The art design is whimsical. Your character model changes depending on what you have equipped. Oh, and every class [...]