bphogan

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by bphogan 16y ago
I can take a quick look, but you may want to contact me privately if you'd like a serious review.
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by bphogan 16y ago
My dad used to teach kids with disabilities. He always used to tell the other teachers that the disabled is a club anyone can join at any time, without notice.
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What do you want to know about accessibility and web apps?
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by bphogan 16y ago
I recommend StreamToMe. It's the best $3 I've spent. Transcodes on the fly, works great. We watched cartoons in the car. (iPad tethered to my 3g android phone).
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by bphogan 16y ago
I occasionally do this as a freelancer if it's a larger project. If it's something small, I don't mind answering a few questions for free. I'm visually impaired, as are my father and daughter. I have an interest in making the web more acces
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by bphogan 16y ago
Use RVM. http://rvm.beginrescueend.com
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by bphogan 16y ago
Rails has been dealing with the 'can't scale' accusations forever, even though it has been scaling fine for a lot of people for at least 4 years, if not longer. But remember that a lot of people who start with Rails are not sysadmins, and m
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by bphogan 16y ago
It's been like this with Ruby since certain developers have been pushing harder for 1.9 adoption. A new developer is gonna pick the higher version number, cos higher version means newer. They're then gonna wonder why some gem doesn't work :
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by bphogan 16y ago
Yeah but my physician says it's better to look slightly downward at the screen. Which is kinda what you see with some of the standing desks too. Totally not an ergonomics guy... I just know what I was told. :/
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by bphogan 16y ago
Actually my Macbook Pro has improved my ergonomic situation. I use the built-in zoom tool, (it's the reason I bought a mac, as I have low vision) and because of the zoom feature, I can put the laptop wherever I find it comfortable but still
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by bphogan 16y ago
I use IRC every day. I use it to work with others on opensource projects and many of my past interns and I use it to stay in touch daily, creating a very helpful network. My current interns can get help from not only ne, but people who used
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by bphogan 16y ago
Kinda, but no. You can do simple things quickly with Rails. That means you get to the harder things faster. You very quickly discover that you have to learn Ruby if you want to do anything beyond scaffolding. I think that's what he means by
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by bphogan 16y ago
Well, we run RailsMentors ( http://www.railsmentors.org ) for that reason, stop by, sign up, and see if you can find someone to mentor you. It's all volunteer, there to help newcomers get excited about Rails. Doesn't cost you a think, excep
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by bphogan 16y ago
I know I'm in the minority here, but Photoshop is worth every penny to me. I don't upgrade to every version (I usually skip every other one) but I don't steal it, and I certainly don't find GIMP to be an honest substitute. If you dabble in
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by bphogan 16y ago
Gosh yes. Infected Mushroom - increasing my productivity since 2003. Their music is interesting enough that I still haven't tired of it yet.
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by bphogan 16y ago
Ok, I'm totally a noob with Clojure, but I thought all I had to do was java -jar ~/clojure.jar and I got a REPL. Did something change recently? This seems like an awful lot more work than it should be.
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by bphogan 16y ago
And as I said on Twitter... If I were in his situation I would keep my mouth shut and would be directing all questions to my lawyer. Otherwise you run the risk of increasing the guilt by association. This kind of stuff can ruin a company. I
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by bphogan 16y ago
Why don't we all wait until after the holiday here, let the dust settle a bit, and see what happens before we start taking sides?
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by bphogan 16y ago
In my experience, "getting stuff done" in the academic world isn't about making money for the business owner. It's about teaching students. So I think your statement is a little unfair. Network admins, DBAs, and developers have to keep the
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by bphogan 16y ago
With the exception of these higher-level executive positions, the state gets workers on the cheap for those 20 years. My student interns graduate making 1.5 to 2x what I make per year. Seriously, are you gonna do Oracle DBA duties for $50k
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by bphogan 16y ago
Is Microsoft's non-support for WebM any different than Mozilla's refusal to let me play H264 videos in their browser? You can't just look the other way cos you like the underdog. To my mind it's the same thing. My mac can play h264 videos,
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by bphogan 16y ago
WebM is not a "web standard" anymore than H264. By that logic, if Mozilla really supported web standards, they'd support h264 playback since Safari, Chrome, and IE will. Even if I have an h264 codec on my system, FF won't play the stupid
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by bphogan 16y ago
I immediately embraced the 20 sources. I can't honestly pay attention to any more than that. This keeps me focused - I have to choose what feeds I'm going to watch. I looked at my google reader feed and honestly I had over 100 feeds in ther
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by bphogan 16y ago
With Heroku, you'd store those 20gb of images on S3. Then you have thm in development as well as production. And once they're up, you don't have to move them around.
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by bphogan 16y ago
A subset of users care about URLs when a hierarchy exists. I've seen it happen during usability testing. /projects/25/tasks shows the tasks list... and I've watched the user delete the end of the url to get to /projects. Most users don't
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by bphogan 16y ago
Dunno about that. I have played the "Minus World" since 1990 when I found out how to do it from my friend. I try it on tons of emulators too, and they all seem to handle it pretty well. I don't recall crashing an emulator with it, and I've
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by bphogan 16y ago
There's a couple I think. If you create an account and enter in your location details, we sort mentors geographically close to you on the map page. http://www.railsmentors.org/mentors When you're a guest, it's just not really sorted.
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by bphogan 16y ago
RailsMentors.org will help. This is one of my pet projects for RailsBridge, and we have a ton of volunteers. Hell, ask me any time and I will teach you to write tests if you want.
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by bphogan 16y ago
Did any of you catch the comment where the guy from Adobe criticized the guy in the video for picking random sites? Seriously? So, Flash runs great on the Android as long as you only visit the sites that Adobe hand-picked for the Google I
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by bphogan 16y ago
Using the HTML5 doctype lets you use HTML5 tags and custom data attributes and have a valid document. New HTML5 form fields, custom attributes, and markup elements are usable in IE6 mainly because it just doesn't really bother to explode wh

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