July 2010
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WatchA hilarious video of Connor poppin some champagne and his hat at a World Cup Brunch. Joe shot this vertically with his iPhone 4…check out the Vimeo page to see how Vimeo renders the vertical HD video…pretty cool. Wonder what YouTube does with these? We’re thinking there is going to be a influx of vertical HD videos posted online now that people have the option to shoot video...
June 2010
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The Web Reel Episode 6 →
All about E3! our prediction on why the Xbox Kinect is super awesome and Sony Playstation Move kind of sucks.
Microsoft’s new console the Xbox Kinect, is the clear winner at E3 this year. Every retails seemed to focus on 3D and motion based gaming. This weeks cocktail is the “Dark and Stormy”, which is actually made out of smashed up village people! Awesome!
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Watchhaving fun this morning with iMovie on the iPhone 4 - very impressive app!
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The Web Reel Episode 5 →
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WatchWe coded ARG’s site and made a quick Gource video of us building it with some original background music as well.
In this episode Eric and Joe discuss what went down at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010, and hold a showdown of Apache verses NGNIX. As usual they spend time talking about their Apple products, this time Eric highlights how productive he is with his iPad as opposed to his laptop while traveling and Joe highlights the merits of jail-breaking his iPhone.
Joe also demos his new Macbook Pro with it’s solid...
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The Web Reel Episode 4 →
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WatchAn amazing video of Joe fun-boxing his new MacBook Pro with high rez screen at the New Gold Leaf office. Shot using a Flip Mino HD, which we love.
May 2010
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The Web Reel Episode 3 →
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Remove MySQL in one line.
Well at least only one line of code for you!
bash < <( curl -L http://bit.ly/91Ugqt )
Remember this will totally nuke your MySQL installation, so be sure to have your databases backed up and safe.
This script only works on *nix systems in which you’ve installed MySQL the standard way.
I encourage you to check out the script that is being run when you execute that...
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Here is the 24 second version of The Web...
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the web reel
Our new weekly video podcast by Joe and Eric where they talk about web development, design and general internet tomfoolery.
http://thewebreel.com
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WatchA quick tour of our office on Potrero Avenue in San Francisco.
October 2009
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Simple iPhone User Agent detection with Rails
There are a lot of methods for detecting user agents, but if you just want to use a different app layout in your rails app for iPhone users, here’s how we do it.
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
...
layout :application_layout
# detect UA for iPhone users
def application_layout
@browser_name ||= begin
ua =...
September 2009
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Using Git with Your Media Temple (gs) Server
It’s about time that web designers, not just developers, start using version control, and while staying as far as possible away from the SVN vs. Git battle that still rages on, I just use Git and pretend like SVN never existed.
We use media temple to host much of our clients work and stage up changes and updates to sites before we push them live to one of our application servers or perhaps...
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Snow Leopard's Safari renders ugly text?
If anyone has upgraded to Snow Leopard notices that text rendering is severely messed up. In fact Safari 3.0 was leaps better, not sure what the issue is.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpsilvashy/3907386980/