blog.chrisroby: Archive

Jan 27th

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Jan 9th

Ruby HTML Parsers/Scrapers →

Dec 3rd

git bash tab-completion →

Highly useful tip for tab-completion in git. Now I can type git branch <tab> and see a list of all branches in my origin and all fetched remotes.

Dec 2nd

Mac Pro fan loud?

My Mac Pro has been increasingly loud over the past weeks. Turned out to be a dirty graphics card fan (ATI Radeon X1900 XT) - a little compressed air and the computer is more or less running silent.

Nov 23rd

Passing along arguments to QUnit tests - jQuery... →

We’re auto-generating some unit tests for Sakai 3, so John Resig’s post here was very helpful in determining how to pass arguments in to a generated QUnit test

Nov 12th

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iPhone 4 video of our Yashika TLR camera at Golden Gardens beach in Ballard, Seattle, WA

Oct 25th

“To synchronize your keychain on this computer”

– /System/Library/Frameworks/SecurityFoundation.framework/Versions/A/kcSync.app/Contents/MacOS/kcSync -reset I was having trouble with a syncing my keychains via MobileMe today (first time syncing). MobileMe prompted me that I needed to input a password for the computer this keychain was stored on....

Aug 22nd

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Canon 7D vs. Barbie Video Girl

Aug 14th

Complaint #611

whitewhine: Millions of dollars spent on the development of Windows 7, and it comes with the same crappy screensavers as XP? Lame. -Whine by Leonardo

Aug 5th

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Decibel International Festival of Electronic... →

Yeah, this looks awesome. Modeselektor and their visualist just got added to the lineup. Turns out you can find electronic music in Seattle after all?

Jul 20th

Jul 19th

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Conway's Game of Life in Processing.js

I created an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life and have it up and running over at http://code.chrisroby.com/conway/. It runs in an HTML5 <canvas> via Processing.js, so you’ll need a modern browser to view it. I wrote this up initially in openFrameworks and then ported it over to Processing to try out Processing.js. My algorithm isn’t very efficient, so the frame...

Apr 11th

XML cannot be the whole program

No good Google’d resources on this one, but here’s the solution: Firebug throws this error when its expecting a script as the return dataType of your AJAX response. Set your dataType to XML (or HTML, if appropriate) and it’ll no longer try to parse the response as a script, fixing the error.

Feb 16th

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Jan 11th

The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the... →

Jan 11th

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Snowflakes

Jan 11th

2 New openFrameworks Addons

This week I released 2 new openFrameworks addons. One is called ofxMacFileDialog - an addon to allow native file dialog boxes for selecting files or folders. The other is ofXCodeTemplates which updates Memo’s XCode Templates for 0061 and improves his iPhone template by including new frameworks that the new ofxiPhone uses.

Dec 30th

Change __MyCompanyName__ in XCode

defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions ‘{ “ORGANIZATIONNAME” = “Your company name here”; }’

Dec 28th

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http://coge.lovqc.hu/ →

CoGe 1.0 is really starting to look solid. Open-source VJ app supporting Quartz Composer comps

Dec 28th

Virtual Awesome →

“VirtualAwesome is a cross-platform applications framework for advanced computer graphics and new user interfaces.”

Dec 22nd

Dec 16th

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My Wiimote Theremin experiment in Processing Wiimote Theremin on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Dec 8th

chris roby dot com →

first presence on the main chrisroby.com since i purchased the domain

Dec 7th

Daring Fireball: A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern... →

This is super-useful. I’ve been looking for a really good regex like this for a long time

Dec 2nd

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Great minimal projection mapping (via Vimeo)

Nov 18th

Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 - Multitouch Support! →

Nov 18th

The Eccentric Office Mrs. Twitter Helped Build →

only reason for posting is this gem a.k.a. my new title aspiration: “Chief Wax Officer”

Nov 18th

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One more Rutt/Etra test. The window brightness/depth was cool in this one

Nov 17th

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Testing out Rutt/Etra video synthesis in Quartz Composer.

Nov 16th

Nov 11th

Interactive Multimedia Technology: libTISCH, a... →

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tisch/

Nov 11th

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Oct 27th

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Tagging w/ computers Great use of IR + real ink for a tight feedback loop F.A.T. Boys & Girls @ BLK River (Vienna) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Oct 27th

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blink (hc gilje 2009) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Oct 26th

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Oct 19th

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MODESELEKTOR - ART&CASH OFFICIAL VIDEO on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

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This group does absolutely outstanding work - hyper-real projections on buildings APPARATI EFFIMERI Cosmopolitan Opening on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Oct 6th

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This is astounding: draw the outline of a sketch and a computer will composite photos together to match your sketch. Incredible technology PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Oct 6th