February 2012
1 post
The cost of an intern
I’m taking an Android development course at my college. Today, our teacher showed us an internship opportunity he’d been emailed about. The opportunity was to build an app for data collection in an ecological project. It sounded like the intern would be the sole developer on the project (it was indicated that scheduling was flexible), and commitment to the project and reliability were...
January 2012
3 posts
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton is wise.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/
(via neil-gaiman)
Silly article about AT&T's data prices
Slashdot ran an article today, titled “AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr”. The title immediately reaches for net neutrality fiends, but really, they’re not capping anything.
The summary says that streaming Netflix for 24 hours straight will consume 2.81GB. I’m not about to dispute that. However, it also says that can result in charges as large as $68,376. In...
You guys will get mad at anything, won't you?
AT&T announced new data plans for smartphones. You can read the story on MacRumors.
The new data plans are:
250MB for $15 (iPad only, $0.06 / MB)
300MB for $20 ($0.067 / MB)
3GB for $30 ($0.01 / MB)
5GB for $50, plus tethering ($0.01 / MB)
The old plans were:
200MB for $15 ($0.075 / MB)
250MB for $15 (iPad only, $0.06 / MB)
2GB for $25 ($0.0125 / MB)
Reading the discussion threads on...
December 2011
4 posts
Clean install of Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X
I’m going to buy a Mac Mini today, and this is the process I’m going to follow to make a clean install of Ruby on Rails. I’ll refine these instructions as I walk through them.
Install Xcode from the Mac App Store. If you have Lion, it’s a free download. Xcode comes with all of the code compiling utilities that allow us to build our rubies (“rubies” are a...
“XML is like violence. It doesn’t solve anything and shouldn’t be...”
– Inspired by: “XML is like violence. If it doesn’t solve your problem, you’re not using enough of it.”
November 2011
4 posts
A response to Matt Gemmell turning off comments.
acreek:
First.
Fixing World of WarCraft's legacy set item storage
With every World of WarCraft expansion, they introduce new storage bags that allow characters to store more items. These are generally two or four slots bigger, and if a character has six bank slots and four person slots, that’s 20 or 40 more items. But with the introduction of Void Storage, it seems like they’re looking for ways to save on database storage. I say this because when you...
Re-launching my blog
Amazon EC2 has hosted my blog for the past year or so. It’s been an enjoyable experience, and I liked having my own virtual private server in case I needed to do some Linuxy stuff, but it cost $17 per month and I wasn’t really interested in paying for that anymore. It looks like Tumblr is pretty simple to use, and bringing my domain name over here wasn’t too much of a pain, so...