araroden: THIS is the photo I wanted to post earlier, re: bloomers. Thumbnails are too small for my old eyes. And as such, this is the photo I meant to post earlier (I’d never seen either at the time). at Ted Roden

Mar 18

THIS is the photo I wanted to post earlier, re: bloomers. Thumbnails are too small for my old eyes.

And as such, this is the photo I meant to post earlier (I’d never seen either at the time).

Announcing the creation of an event that I can't believe didn't already exist: The New York Technology Meetup bit.ly/ny-tech-meetup

Ted Roden

After all these many years it’s taken a true visionary to realize the potential of technology nerds in New York City. I’ve decided to hold an event to get some of the best and brightest all together in the same room. I’ve just created what (somehow) didn’t already exist: The New York Technology Meetup: meetup.com/New-York-Technology-Meetup.

If your a nerd/geek in NYC who wants to talk about technology and drink beer and do that as far away from business types as possible. This meetup is for you.

I’ve scheduled the inaugural meetup at Solas on Tuesday April 6th from 7-9pm. Here’s some info from the official meetup page.

The inaugural meetup is happening!

Luckily, this meetup won’t conflict with any other tech focused meetups at the same time. So come one come all. Seriously: This is a meetup for tech people who want to a) talk abou tech stuff and b) eat/drink etc. This is part social event, part technology event, no parts business event.

Seriously, don’t come to this to hire people, don’t come for “networking,” or finding out what the next Foursquare is going to be. There is a great event across town for that type of thing.

Come to this event if you want to know what the next ruby is going to be. Find out why scala is great.

We’ll have one or two official topics/presentations and then just hanging out, chatting, drinking, hacking, etc. If you have a topic suggestion or want to present, email tedroden at gmail or find me on twitter @tedroden.

Also, this event is totally free. I want this to happen so badly, that this is one is on me.

araroden:

Harriet in her knitted bloomers.

Just in time for spring.

I'm looking for some programmers to help me out with something. If you know python or java: can you test this: bit.ly/9B4Hwk

Ted Roden

Help me test something?

I'm looking for Python (or perhaps Java) programmers to help me test something:

blah = """V'z|ybbxvat sbe nabgure FZNYY tebhc
bs|crbcyr gb grpu erivrj zl B'Ervyyl obbx ba gur ernygvzr jro.
Vagrerfgrq|rznvy zr ng grqebqra+ernygvzr-grpu-erivrj@tznvy.pbz
...|Lbh'yy unir gb npghnyyl ybbx ng gur pbqr
naq|znxr fher vg qbrfa'g fgvax
gbb|onq (gubhtu lbh qba'g unir gb npghnyyl eha
gur|pbqr ba rirel rknzcyr). Vs lbh unir
gvzr|gb qb guvf va gur irel arne shgher. Cyrnfr uryc!"""
 
def l33t_cracker(s, n=13):
    r = ""
    for c in s:
        cc = c
        if cc.isalpha():
            cc = cc.lower()
            o = ord(cc)
            ro = (o+n) % 122
            if ro == 0: ro = 122
            if ro < 97: ro += 96
            cc = chr(ro)
        r = ''.join((r,cc))
    return r
print ""
for x in xrange(30): print "*",
print ""
print ""
lines = blah.split("\n")
for x in lines:
    for y in x.split("|"):
        print "%s " % l33t_cracker(y),
 
print ""
print ""
for x in xrange(30): print "*",
 
print ""

I love that in the final blog post to joelonsoftware.com, Joel goes out on a limb to proclaim that the technology powering is latest product is, in fact, a good thing.

Uncle O’Grimacey

Breaking Bad?

Mar 17

heykurt:

I donated to Ted’s Charity because I want to see him turn into Walter White from Breaking Bad.

For work, I’m looking through some code that has been abandoned by it’s original maintainer. The only documentation is a Microsoft Word file.

None of this software would run comfortably on Windows.

I love Panic. I think they’re great. Having said that…

I know that I’ve picked on Panic’s Transmit app in the past, but they’re considered so good at UI and sometimes I have trouble seeing it. Transmit is one app that needs a lot of polish. Example:

Drag one folder of mp3’s or something to your hard drive from a remote server. Then do it again from the same window/server. You suddenly have two, totally separate progress bars and two different queues that are not tied together in any way. So in order to check on the progress of your downloads, you need to keep an eye on two different windows.

I'm shaving my luxorious hair tonight to support kids with cancer. Unless you like kids having cancer, donate now: bit.ly/bYo0CP

Ted Roden

Mar 16

"Writing doesn't actually take that long. It's the long stretches of procrastinating that take up most of your time." - bit.ly/8Zvcp9

Ted Roden

ack: a grep for programmers

Pretty nice grep-like tool. Especially if (somehow) grep is tailored enough for a programmer. Among it’s touted features:

Command name is 25% fewer characters to type!

I just noticed that the featured blogs on the directory pages are paid placements. Kind of a a great little feature.

One dude seems to have bought space on several different topics, he should chill out (refresh a few times on each, you should see a pattern).

Although, I have a feeling their not all paid spots. Fred Wilson has one of the featured in “Entrepreneurs,” which while perfect placement topic-wise, would probably not have been a valuable ad buy for him.

I’m shaving my head for money tomorrow. Once I have all of your money, I’m going to give that money to kids with cancer. It’s some sort of charity thing called “St. Baldrick’s.”

Feel free to donate, and by “feel free to donate,” I mean “click here and donate lest I make the lord unleash another storm to ruin all of your apartments, again.”

webkitbits:

Sergey Chikuyonok has created a beautiful Ambilight video effect with HTML5 and Canvas.

Amazing ambient lighting behind an HTML5 video player (using a canvas): bit.ly/cV2trs

Ted Roden

The Guardian on my job at NYT R+D: bit.ly/d48zzb - Also highlights tons of the awesome work from NYT proper. @nytimes represent!

Ted Roden