Tim on February 28th, 2008

Yes, there’s places in Florida worth riding mountain bikes on. It’s not North Carolina or West Virginia (I really want to bike Snowshoe), certainly, but at this time of year, it’ll do.
My buddy Jason is making a map of all the worthwhile biking areas in Central Florida.

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Let me know if there are any […]

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Tim on February 25th, 2008

My local friends know I have been working a lot lately, and not hanging out. They don’t know why, just something about “motorcycles,” “databits,” and “2 AM.”
The Cloudspace team has been working with Lowell Goss of Loud3r, and we’re starting to unveil the fruits of our labor. It’s an amazing system that lets us create […]

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Tim on February 24th, 2008

find ./ -name “*.php” -print0 | xargs -0 grep -ls ‘words words words’
Here’s a faster way to grep. If you know the type of file you want to look for (let’s say PHP), there’s no need to grep through everything (like images, or log files).

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I was reading Reddit the other day and saw a link proclaiming that “the Ouroboros is real!”. Having no idea what this was, I clicked through, and found pictures of a lizard that basically eats it’s own tail when threatened, protecting it’s belly.
Hitting up Wikipedia, I found out that the Ouroboros is a concept that’s […]

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Tim on February 19th, 2008

Almost seems like not talking could make you smarter.

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I was browsing through Ning’s codebase the other day. I work directly with the code since I’ve customized a Ning network for one of Cloudspace’s clients in some subtle ways, just because he wanted it that way.
I really like the work they’ve done. Their codebase clearly has a lot of best practices.
I found one neat […]

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Tim on February 11th, 2008

I sometimes forget just how useful drawing diagrams can be.
For example, working with a DB. Just a quick sketch of circles as tables, write the column titles inside the relevant circles, and then draw a few lines to represent joins.
It’d probably be useful to do this with large blocks of code too.  Just draw parts […]

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