Archive for December, 2008

Pastebin

Made a rails-based pastebin today: http://github.com/tobowers/pastebin/tree/master. Very much alpha-ish code (without specs) but it seems to work fairly well, and I didn’t see another rails pastebin out there.
Easy to add support for tons of languages. Right now it only displays the options for rails, ruby, javascript, plaintext, css, html, actionscript.
These two projects are pretty […]

Tilt-shift video of a monster truck rally

H/T Dan Benjamin
This is really cool… check out the carzilla! This is the first time I’ve ever seen tilt-shift video (seen the photos).

Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Timewarner lies again

I know it’s kind of cliched to complain about Time Warner, but…

Cable went out at 5pm yesterday.
Called. Telephone system says: Customers in Brooklyn, your cable might be out from 4pm to 6am.
This morning. 8am. No cable, no internet.
Call. Oh I’m sorry sir - my computer says your area might have cable out from 12:42am to […]

Great article on agile methodology for designers

Agile is doing great for developers - how can we make it more “other more deliverable-oriented person” friendly?
A list apart has done it again:
Getting Real About Agile Design:
We are told that the modern org chart is hyperlinked, but in many companies design is still a single point of decision. Designers must let go of perfection […]

Pownce is shutting down

http://www.sixapart.com/pownce/pro.html
People are saying this was a twitter rival. I think their product
could have been great with a slight twist on marketing - making it for
“small group file and links sharing” rather than micro-blogging…
they already had the features - but didn’t push it in that direction.