Category Archives: My Projects

Projects I’m working on, helping with or debugging.

It’s All Text! 1.4 (FF3.6 compatible)

By docwhat | Published: 2010-01-23
I have just finished Firefox 3.6 after working like crazy since FF 3.6 came out. It only works in FF3.6, but the statistics show that the users of It’s All Text! upgrade their browser almost immediately after a new version comes out, so I’m not worried. At the time of this post, it hasn’t been approved, so [...]
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An idea for an iPhone app

By docwhat | Published: 2010-01-22
So Robin (my awesome wife) came up with an idea for an iPhone app. We were watching UHF and there is a bit where a guy is trying to teach poodles to fly… by throwing them out the 3rd floor window. There was a pile poodles on the lawn of his apartment building. She cracked up.
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MacBook Pro – Dual Graphics

By docwhat | Published: 2009-12-03
I’m annoyed. I’ve had my lovely late-2009 MacBook Pro with the incredible dual graphics processors for a couple months and I had the slower GPU enabled the whole time. Apparently, you need to go into “System Preferences” -> “Energy Saver” and turn on “Graphics” -> “Higher Performance”apple kb.
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Smoking craters are good

By docwhat | Published: 2009-10-28
Every wondered how to make bulletproof software? What tricks do the guys who build bank machines use to be sure their software doesn’t ever crash? Look no further!
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RVM: ruby version management

By docwhat | Published: 2009-10-27
I just discovered RVM, a tool for managing multiple versions of ruby on the same system. This is really useful on my MacBook Pro, since the built-in Ruby “has problems”. Such as having gems in weird locations which makes updating them difficult. Plus the fact that the OS X updater may clobber your [...]
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