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Re: Engadget Giveaway: win a Sony Cybershot DSC-RX100, courtesy of IceMonkey!

Jason Seifer — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:10 -0000

Cool camera!

Re: Git For Designers (Part 1)

Jason Seifer — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:41:28 -0000

Great suggestions! I'll integrate some of that in to part 2 :)

Re: Git For Designers (Part 1)

Jason Seifer — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:40:23 -0000

Thanks a lot for point out the errors! I've fixed them and also added a note about how to change to the directory you'd like to work in.

I'm not sure about a good place to learn command line basics, but that might make a good blog post in the future. Thanks!

Re: Git For Designers (Part 1)

Jason Seifer — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:32:04 -0000

I've added it, thanks!

Re: Git For Designers (Part 1)

Jason Seifer — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:38:32 -0000

I'm personally not a fan of the GUI options. Designers are super smart! If you show them how to use it they'll get comfortable pretty quickly, even if there aren't any pretty buttons :)

Re: Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on OS X Lion

Jason Seifer — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:53:54 -0000

Try installing the gem and see if you still have the error:

gem install activerecord-mysql-adapter

Re: Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on OS X Lion

Jason Seifer — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:50:47 -0000

I'm afraid that won't be possible since MAMP doesn't include Ruby.

Re: Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on OS X Lion

Jason Seifer — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:58:03 -0000

Great tip! I've updated the post with it. Thanks!

Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the unicorn…

Jason Seifer — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:37:38 -0000

Should the "bundler" command read "bundle" in your cap config?

Re: The Past 90 Days

Jason Seifer — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:31:59 -0000

I can't believe it's only been ~90 days. For some reason it seems like longer. Does it seem like time is passing by longer or quicker for you? Have you decided where you're going to stay or what you're going to do?

Re: Mac OS X Post Install Guide, May 2010

Jason Seifer — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:45:44 -0000

Check out http://github.com/mxcl/home.... There's instructions on there but you can do:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsS http://gist.github.com/raw/..."

Then: "brew install mysql"

However, I'd recommend reading up a bit on homebrew before you make that commitment.

Re: Rake Tutorial

Jason Seifer — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:02:33 -0000

Try doing:

task :its_me => :environment do
...
end

Re: Asheville and I have Unfinished Business

Jason Seifer — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:43:45 -0000

Well, I know someplace I'll be visiting. Also I really chuckled at your "total contrast from downtown Fort Lauderdale" line. How true.

Re: On Passwords

Jason Seifer — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:33:10 -0000

Glad you liked it, thanks a lot.

Re: Rake Tutorial

Jason Seifer — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:32:35 -0000

Thanks a lot everyone, glad you found it useful.

Re: Learning to Chill

Jason Seifer — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:09:04 -0000

This is a great post that also highlights the concept of diminishing returns. At a certain point, chasing an extra $5 or even $50 discount becomes not worthy of your time.

Re: On Passwords

Jason Seifer — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:11:12 -0000

Thanks a lot! I've added that to the list.

Re: On Passwords

Jason Seifer — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:21:49 -0000

I'll definitely give you that regarding a targeted attack. If you're using Rails/Rack, one possible solution for that is Rack::Throttle at http://github.com/datagraph.... I think at some point I'll do a round up of those as well. Thanks a lot for the comments.

Re: On Passwords

Jason Seifer — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:35:32 -0000

I suggest giving the article I linked by Thomas Ptacek a read through. It goes over in much more detail the reasons, as well as history, for using bcrypt to hash your passwords.

Regarding the performance aspect, at least in the Ruby library, you can determine how thorough you want it to be regarding cpu usage. I can't speak for other libraries but I'm sure there are similar options. There are lots of ways to combat a DOS attack, such as rate limiting, that could (and should) be employed.

In the event that the database and code are stolen, arguably, having one less thing to worry about is just fine with me. :) Realistically, both of these scenarios are pretty unlikely, and people are far more inclined to try sql injection first.

Re: World Travel Per Diem

Jason Seifer — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:36:13 -0000

Depending on where you get it, fruit and cheese can be an inexpensive and very well rounded snack.

Re: Plans for the East Coast Road Trip

Jason Seifer — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:53:30 -0000

Make sure you hit corky's in memphis. Great bbq.

Re: Passion for Travel and a Career

Jason Seifer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:59:47 -0000

Your posts are really inspiring, please keep this updated.

Re: One Step Back, Me & Emancipation

Jason Seifer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:50:50 -0000

Great post, thanks for sharing.

Re: Offline Gem Server RDocs

Jason Seifer — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:30:20 -0000

Yep, although I've since stayed on the version of rdoc that's supported by hanna since I like that hanna template much more.

Re: Mini DisplayPort to Dual Link DVI Adapter Fix (Temporary)

Jason Seifer — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:14:33 -0000

Unfortunately there is still no real solution. Even getting a new will not alleviate the issue. I spoke with Apple the other week and they are aware of the problem but have no ETA on the solution.