Lee’s Latest tweets
- Pro tip: if you're after a quiet life, don't live between two wine bars and a restaurant on a street in need of constant repair. 1 day ago
- We built a cool infinite-scroll wall of @rapportive love. http://t.co/VSkFZtvY 3 days ago
- RT @rapportive: It's Official: Rapportive Acquired by LinkedIn! @http://t.co/2rwqL0kj :D 3 days ago
- I cannot express how great the new @yammer iOS app is. *so* much faster and more usable than any previous version. Thanks guys! 1 week ago
- In which the required square area of pizza per person, is calculated. 2 weeks ago
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Next stop San Francisco
In just a few days I’m moving to San Francisco! I’m insanely excited, both about moving to the city and that next month I’ll officially become an employee of Rapportive, Inc. If you’ve never heard of Rapportive, you should check … Continue reading
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Leveling up in San Francisco
During the last few weeks I’ve been ‘levelling up’ in San Francisco and getting to know the city better. With Bex I’ve been eating, drinking and touristing all across the city with serious emphasis on the eating. Here are a … Continue reading
Fixing a Sequel Pro compilation error
I tried to download and build the source code for Sequel Pro today and ran into a hitch. After following the instructions for grabbing the source code and trying to compile it, X-Code refused to succesfully build the app, instead … Continue reading
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Using facebook connect (only) to authorize users with authlogic
I’ve been working on our semi-stealthy new webapp for the last couple of months and I’ve been putting off fixing a bug for ages because it was so damned weird. We want users to be able to sign-up with facebook … Continue reading
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Why Spotify Premium is too expensive, and how to fix it
I recently became a Spotify Premium customer, for two main reasons: I’d spent an afternoon listening to spotify at my desk and wanted to carry on listening to the same playlists on my iPhone while I was walking somewhere. As … Continue reading
mig_constraints is not compatible with rails 2.3
Although it’s old, mig_constraints has sat in my rails plugin directory for a while now because it adds much needed foreign key support to ActiveRecord. I’m on of those crazy guys that thinks a relational database should maintain relational integrity, … Continue reading
Setting up a kick-ass rails server on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
I recently created a new slicehost and thought I’d try the latest Ubuntu release with it. Unlike brightbox hosting, you only get a plain boring ubuntu installation out of the box on slicehost (and various other VPS-based hosting services). A … Continue reading
Wisdom from a different (Internet) age
It doesn’t happen very often, but I was pointed to an online article recently that dates back almost a decade. The Pitchman is a story by Malcolm Gladwell about ”Ron Popeil, who invented a better rotisserie in his kitchen and went … Continue reading
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Nokogiri fails to work on Solaris (11), but fix it like this!
I’ll have a better fix up in the near future, but for now, the ruby gem “Nokogiri” crashed out on me on Joyent’s Solaris platform. Its error was a little cryptic unless you’re familiar with libc. I can’t reproduce it here … Continue reading
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