blog.chrisroby

Jan 27

pratt:

stéphane choquet design: naja table

wow

pratt:

stéphane choquet design: naja table

wow

Jan 08

[video]

Dec 03

Ruby HTML Parsers/Scrapers

Dec 01

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.

Nov 22

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 11

Passing along arguments to QUnit tests - jQuery Forum -

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

Oct 24

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Aug 21

“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. Unfortunately, it didn’t list a computer that the password was for, and none of my passwords worked. Eventually, I found this mailing list entry which had this command, and solved my issue.

Upon entering the command in your Terminal, hit cancel on the popup. It’ll then reset, and you can continue syncing.

Re: .Mac Synching and Network Home Craziness

Aug 14

[video]

Aug 04

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

Jul 19

Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music, Digital Art, and New Media: Sept 23 - 26 -

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?

azizisbored:

Hands down. The best review of Inception.

meta-critique from slim thug. did he dream about seeing inception?

azizisbored:

Hands down. The best review of Inception.

meta-critique from slim thug. did he dream about seeing inception?

Apr 10

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 rate drops and the fans start spinning as you get over the 500x500 pixels with 10px cells setup that I have, at least on my machine (2008 MacBook aka the BlackBook).

Fun project, and first time doing anything on <canvas>.

Feb 16

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.

Jan 10

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