It Doesn't Hurt to Make People Smile
Wed, Nov 3, 2010
I just received the monthly Dreamhost newsletter - the November 2010 edition, to be exact. As usually it made me smile. It starts out like this:
All posts by arnorhs
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Git - removing files permanently - gitignore
Wed, Sep 29, 2010
I'm a very new user of Git. I've been using it for some time to download and install repositories, like most people, but didn't use it for source control yet. Recently I've started using it, though, so I've been bumping into small problems along the way. One problem I've had was with trying to find out how to keep certain files out of a repository. I had tried Googling a few terms, but that only brought up results for actually removing a file once and for all from the directory tree and from the repository. I had been typing something like git remove files permanently.
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My Take on css-tricks.com's Group Design Project
Wed, Sep 29, 2010
I ran across this post yesterday, by css-tricks.com. They had a little UI design competition where they asked participants to design and develop a UI for editing and deleting items of a list. It's a cool idea for a competition and you can read the whole thing here: https://css-tricks.com/ui-pattern-ideas-list-with-functions/ I chimed in at the comments, but realized quickly that this should become a blog post by itself.
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Programming Language Popularity
Mon, Aug 30, 2010
Which programming language you choose to work in (if it is your choice) affects your productivity, satisfaction and much more. Not only that, but working in a trending language can even help your career or business.
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$5 for unlimited backup storage? Wtf?
Sat, Aug 28, 2010
_I'm sorry if this post sounds like an advertisement, **but it is not.**_ I ran into this backup service yesterday. It's called Backblaze I was pretty surprised when I saw the p...
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Designing Great UI is like Cleaning
Fri, Aug 13, 2010
Usually, when you need to put something down, you just place it on the next table and don't think much about it. After a few days (or weeks/months/years) your appartment looks like shit and you have to clean it up. How do you clean? One thing at a time. So one by one you take each item lying on the floor, on a table, in a shelf and find it a new home. Sometimes you can see a pattern in all your stuff that's lying around and you might find a good place to put many of those things, like a cupboard a drawer, etc. Often you'll already have great places to put them in, so you put them there.
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Following your dreams
Fri, Jul 23, 2010
Amit wrote on the Rootein blog: > What is it with people refusing to take some risks to follow their dreams. Are their dreams not worth it? If not, why do we sulk about them later? Don't we...
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Previewing fonts using Google's font directory
Fri, Jul 23, 2010
Now you can preview fonts in the Google font directory. This is exactly the kind of thing Google does incredibly well. It also gives you the CSS needed to make the font appear the way it does in th...
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Last night they dug up Bobby Fischer's body
Mon, Jul 5, 2010
Last night the body of Bobby Fischer was dug up from his grave, ordered by Iceland's supreme court. The aim is to get a biological sample to find out the truth whether Bobby Fischer is the father of philipean Jinky Young, who claims he is.
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Somebody needs to invent this storage device
Mon, Jul 5, 2010
Storage. It's an even lasting problem which a lot of companies out there are trying to solve. There are so many requirements and so many limitations. There are a few solutions out there which are pretty good but they are all tackling a separate problem. Somebody needs to invent a computer/storage device with the following features...
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Jason Nation - e-mail newsletters still have value
Fri, Jul 2, 2010
I thought e-mail newsletters were, in essence, dead. I thought no \*real\* value could be derived from them any more. I subscribe to a few e-mail newsletters. Mostly of blogs and companies/services that I use. Some of them are annoying, some of them are sometimes useful, but I don't really remember learning anything useful from an e-mail newsletter. Untill today.
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Ad Retargeting - An Advertisment's Evil Brother
Fri, Jun 25, 2010
A topic that seems to be very hot these days is ad retargeting. Now, I'm not really a big privacy advocate and I don't concern myself with those kinds of issues, but \*if\* I were I would probably be concerned with this topic! If there ever was a reason to use an ad-blocker...
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Don't Backup your Projects
Sun, Jun 13, 2010
Quick post to remind everybody to not back anything up. You might lose all your projects and force yourself to reevaluate your priorities, reevaluate your projects and make some important decisions.
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MySQL Query Cache Resources
Sat, May 29, 2010
To follow up on my post about Drupal's MySQL performance, I wanted to share some resources I found during that journey.
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Surprising mysql queries in Drupal
Thu, May 27, 2010
Warning: This blog post is unusually technical for most of the posts here. The hosting provider I work for in Iceland has been having some problems with one of the servers. Turns out the problems are caused by a single website running Drupal and it has a lot of traffic.
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Google's new Font Directory is a Disaster
Thu, May 20, 2010
Yesterday, Google released the "Google Font Directory": A list of free fonts that can be embedded and used directly from their site. It's a promising service and a good boost for fonts on the web. However, I wanted to try to use one of the fonts for this blog and the results were pretty surprising.
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Bit the bullet, redid the layout
Wed, May 19, 2010
I bit the bullet and added the sidebar on this blog's theme. I wanted to keep the blog design really simple and clean with no side column, but I think it's easier to browse the articles etc when you have the categories, etc.
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3 things I wish somebody would create
Fri, May 14, 2010
I wish somebody would make any of the following applications or web standards. (a few of these ideas evolve from the reports lately about Facebook's privacy issues and my general discontent with Facebook) Click to see the list.
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Flash Will Live, HTML5 Will Take Over On-line Video
Tue, May 11, 2010
I've been pretty calm for the past few days/weeks. The sun has started to shine outside, I've had the chance to go bouldering outside the last days so I've managed to stay silent through the whole twitter follower mess, Steve's flash rant etc. But no more. I got into a conversation with my coworker, Ari, about the future of Flash in the HTML5 world. The general opinion out there that the media has led us to believe is generally that Flash is dead, forgotten and HTML5's canvas + javascript will replace it completely in the nearest future.
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To Rewrite or Not to Rewrite and The Sunk Code Dilemma
Sun, May 2, 2010
Stop. Don't do it. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: "This code is ugly. It's messy, it's big, it seems too complicated with too many features, trying to get my head into it will be too time consuming, I'll just rewrite this. It won't take long. A few hours, maybe". I'm here to tell you: Don't do it.
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