Twist and Shout – The Beatles
I got this song stuck in my head today. All remembered of the words were “C’mon baby, twist and shout.” Well, I looked it up: Twist and Shout, by the Beatles.
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Lexus Commercial with Solar Cars
The solar car that my solar car team built last year was featured in a commercial for the Lexus RX 400h. While searching for the commercial online, I discovered they made two commercials with the solar cars, one of which I’d never seen before today! I like the one with music better, but they’re both…Continue Reading…
Deploying a Ruby on Rails app
Apple makes it sound very easy. When it comes to deploying the code to the production server, and re-deploying your application with each new release, you’re in for a treat. Capistrano (formerly SwitchTower) is an automated deployment utility that makes deploying Rails applications a breeze. To summarize, after installing Capistrano, deploying a new version of…Continue Reading…
Vonage is Hiring?
An interesting ad. I haven’t seen other companies recruit with an opening paragraph like this. Do you know who Kernighan, Ritchie, and Pike are? Have you ever met any of them? Do you know what AWK stands for? Do you know why it is a bad idea to write shell scripts in ‘csh’? Do you…Continue Reading…
Post comments on any site on the web
So I was reading the box.net blog when I saw that they’re allowing visitors to chat with the box.net team. Even cooler than that is the way that they’re doing it. They’re using Gabbly, a neat service that lets you chat about any URL on the web. All you have to do is visit gabbly.com/http://www.intelliot.com/…Continue Reading…
This Week in Tech, Episode 48
These are my notes on the show. DARPA Grand Challenge. Lusted after a good Slide Rule. 6″ plastic slide rule in my pocket protector through high school. HP 35 calculator, the first scientific calculator. Using Halo to make Red vs Blue. A fact that keeps me hopeful: Ben Goodger got into Firefox when he was…Continue Reading…