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Re: Farer Introduces 3 New Mechanical GMTs

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Fri, 26 May 2017 00:20:40 -0000

A prescient line from this very site's review of the quartz Barnato last year: "...had it been a mechanical GMT and cost $1200 – 1500 (and had a sapphire) the watch would still be very compelling..."

Re: Hands-on with The Daily by Richardt Mejer

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Thu, 25 May 2017 23:28:35 -0000

There's also a white model and a black model for more subdued colorways.

I just received the white model and it's very well designed and cleanly executed.

Re: Abstract Art With Sass - Code School Blog

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:51:56 -0000

Very cool! I did something similar with a ring of circles. You could click one to move it to the center.

And a bit of `filter: blur(5px)` on the particle adds a cool effect.

Re: qc: Quick calculator | Daniel Corin

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:45:39 -0000

Even simpler, just use a bash function:

function qc() { python -c "print $*" }

Re: How to create compelling technical screencasts

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:56:06 -0000

Spot on! We blogged (more briefly) about how to write technical content for developers: https://peepcode.com/blog/2...

Re: A Week with Elixir

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:56:44 -0000

Three weeks ago we recorded a two hour intro video to Elixir taught by none other than it's creator José Valim. We'll be publishing it in June at https://peepcode.com

I'm glad to send you a draft if you're interested, Joe. Email boss@topfunky.com

Re: Finnovation™ brings you a heap of new features

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:48:03 -0000

Does Finnovation week happen in Finland?

Re: Really Simple Social Syndication

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:34:22 -0000

Exactly!

I built something like that for myself that I've been using every week for the past few years (before Flipboard and the like). It catalogs links mentioned by the people I follow on Twitter and shows me a report.

http://news.peepcode.com/

Re: Cielo and Chris King

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:17:04 -0000

It looks like radial lacing on the front wheel of the CX bike. But I thought King hubs disallow radial lacing?

Re: 2013 NAHBS: Moots Trail Clearer

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:54:05 -0000

And a $250 Shadow Plus rear derailleur.

At least there will be no chain slap when slogging your chainsaw and 6-pack up the trail.

Re: Shipping a Conference – CascadiaJS

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:43:55 -0000

It was a fantastic conference. I loved the customized sweatshirts with each person's name on the sleeve. Not just the speakers, either. Everyone!

Re: Web and mobile consultancy specializing in Ruby on Rails ~ DockYard

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:09:54 -0000

The same care that you take to organize your "lib" directory should be used when naming files. For example, "haml/filters/handlebars.rb" instead of the generic "custom_filters.rb".

Re: MOSX Tumblelog - Final Cut Pro X: What I Learned

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:25:07 -0000

After 5 years on Final Cut, I switched to Premiere Pro. No software is perfect, but it solved so many problems that I had with Final Cut 7 and X.

You can work at any resolution. Adobe Media Encoder is much more reliable than Apple Compressor and Queue Master. Premiere Pro works great with 80 GB source files, where Final Cut would beachball again and again. And After Effects is one of my favorite programs of all time. It's efficient, scriptable, and the timeline makes much more sense than Motion. It's easy to store Premiere Pro project files in Git.

It's great to hear that Final Cut X is working for you, but I would have saved myself so much trouble if I had abandoned Final Cut years ago. I'm so glad I finally did.

Re: Why Documentary at Rubyconf 2012, Denver

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:13:32 -0000

I had a similar experience trying to interview why for the Ruby on Rails Podcast.

He was very interested in doing the interview, and I saw him in person several times. We even talked about how we would do the interview. But somehow, it never happened.

Right now I'm on a bus, riding to downtown Seattle where I'll record a few interviews for the documentary.

Re: Learn Meteor Fundamentals and Best Practices

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:06:41 -0000

It's painful that it uses underscores in variable and function names. All modern JavaScript uses camel case.

Re: http://garrettdimon.com/post/27002421078

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:41:02 -0000

I definitely agree about the co-founder issue.

I hired my first full-time employee about a year and a half ago. The business has boomed since then and I'm much happier working in person with someone every day. Entire swaths of problems disappear when you can talk to someone technical instead of exclusively mulling around issues in your head.

Re: Never fix a bug twice

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:40:44 -0000

Brilliant and practical.

The trouble with tests is that developers think they have covered all the possible cases as long as they have written at least one positive and one negative test for every method.

Your strategy is useful for getting beyond simple unit testing to consider the whole system (language, framework, and implementation).

Re: Tutorial: Build Reddit in Sinatra

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:17:54 -0000

reddit.rb line 52: So I can POST to /:id/vote/1000000 and add a million points to an article?

Re: Crash Course: Design for Startups — PaulStamatiou.com

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:12:56 -0000

I recorded a 90 minute (commercial) video with GitHub designer Kyle Neath that many people have found useful. It's cool to see how he solves UI problems without a ton of in-your-face design, but just simple, straightforward UI elements:

https://peepcode.com/produc...

Re: Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: Queueing

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:45:48 -0000

At first the syntax seemed too verbose to me. Calling "new" when Resque just passes a whole object? But I guess that's a chance for the app to send arguments (such as a user ID to operate on).

But then it gets interesting. The only time I switched queue systems was when I went from Beanstalk to Resque. I still think Beanstalk is a better queue: time-delayed jobs, better retry, etc. The major problem I had was removing arguments to Beanstalk features that weren't in Resque's API.

Does this API help? It doesn't. If you switch to a queue that has different features, you'll still need to edit your calls to your queue object's "new" method. It seems to mostly help only if you are switching to a queue with the same feature set as the one you are currently using. And if so, why switch?

The real benefit seems to be that Rails can make use of a queue internally. And I think that's a good thing.

Re: RSpec's New Expectation Syntax

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:26:10 -0000

To be or to not be.

I get it.

Re: RSpec's New Expectation Syntax

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:10:14 -0000

To me, "to_not" reads better than "not_to".

For example, this reads more naturally:

expect(donut).to_not be :tasty

This seems awkward:

expect(donut).not_to be :tasty

Re: Veritabill: Predictive Time Tracking in Ruby

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:52:32 -0000

The demo link should be: http://veritabill.herokuapp...

Re: Testing Your Model with Mocha, Mongo, and NodeJS

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:55:22 -0000

I also like setting process.env['NODE_ENV'] = 'test' at the beginning of the first test file to run. Then I can set an appropriate database connection or other info in both implementation code and tests.

Re: Simple Blog with CoffeeScript, Node.js and CouchDB

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:17:44 -0000

Even if you installed CoffeeScript elsewhere, you can install it locally with "npm install coffee-script --save".

This will install it to the local "node_modules" and add it to package.json for the current app.

And it makes it tons easier to deploy when you're done developing.