http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing The Reanimated Blog of Brad Heintz Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:49:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know it's not good engineering practice, but I do love code golfing and writing one-liners in Ruby. This turns a tab-delimited flat file into an imperfectly compliant CSV file: File.open($*[0]) { |f| puts f.readline.strip.split("\t").inject([]) { |newfields, field| newfields http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/09/23/ruby-one-liner/ This is one of the reasons I keep reading Merlin Mann: Except inasmuch as it can help move aside barriers to finishing the projects that you claim matter to you, “productivity” is often a sprawling ghetto of well-marketed nonsense for people who really just need a ritalin and a hug. http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/09/11/thanks-again-merlin/ No, it's not an application feature - it's new content. I've posted my first guitar gear review! And I've already got a second item lined up. Of course, in my rare spare minute, I'm still working on added features for GuitarCardio.com - I think mode-based drills will be next. http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/09/04/new-feature-on-guitarcardiocom/ I love that Mac OS X is really BSD under the hood, but sometimes it causes unexpected pain. More than once I've tripped over the differences in date between Linux and Mac OS X, and over this weekend I've had trauma with sed. Specifically, if I have a single character ... http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/08/10/18/ Yesterday, I spent more time dealing with the getting floated page elements to look right than I care to admit. I am not kidding when I say that I found quantum mechanics more intuitive than I find CSS floats now. Of course, I put more effort into studying quantum mechanics. ... http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/08/03/css-floats-and-quantum-mechanics/ I've deployed a shiny new user profile feature at GuitarCardio.com, visible details of which are described in the relevant blog entry. As for the under-the-hood stuff, the Restful Authentication Plugin made it embarrassingly easy. Late, late. Must sleep now. http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/07/29/new-guitarcardio-features/ I have plenty to report, but not a lot of time to do it just now. What's really important here is that you go check out Kristin's latest blog entry. My darling wife has entered an online karaoke contest being run by a well-known composer and lyricist, and ... http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/07/29/vote-kristin/ Lifehacker is one of my favorite blogs. I hadn't thought to submit a link to GuitarCardio.com to them, mainly because GC seemed to me to have a niche appeal, rather than being the sort of general-interest productivity tool that LH usually features. So imagine my surprise when I saw GuitarCardio ... http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/07/13/the-second-wave/ As I mentioned previously in this space, I've written a web app called GuitarCardio.com. Of course, posting about it here informs nobody but a few family and friends, and then only a few days later when they get around to checking the site. Likewise with my Twitter feed ... http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/07/11/lessons-from-an-unintentional-launch/ Here's something for your pecs: hundredpushups.com. This site offers a six-week program that claims (plausibly, I'd say) to be able to get you from your current fitness level to the ability to do 100 pushups in six weeks. I started a little over a week ago, and ... http://www.bradheintz.com/no1thing/2008/07/07/how-many-pushups-was-that/