Recently I’ve been playing around with vim as an editor. Since I do most of my writing in a text editor, one of the first functions I found myself looking for was a way to do basic markdown syntax highlighting and formatting. Here’s how I set up my vim environment to do [...]
I got word that a friend on Facebook was looking for some vegetarian cookbook options today. Since I’d be spending some time procrastinating a response, I figured hey, why not share? Here’s a list of books I’d reccommend checking out if you are in the market for animal free cooking guides.
Vegetarian Epicure
Anna Thomas’s [...]
The built in reporting tools available for Blackboard are somewhat limited. To answer specific reporting questions, you may need to run custom SQL queries against the database. What follows are a few rough examples of such queries.
All of the below examples are intended to outline the interactions you might need to [...]
This type of improvement isn’t limited to the “8% of the male population” that are colorblind – it creates a better user experience for almost every visitor to your site.
Accessibility (and Universal Design) is an integral part of Craftsmanship.
(Via Waxy.org.)
We found out last weekend that one of our favorite restaurants is closing. Or at least it will if no one buys it in the next month or so. The owner/proprietor of Viet Bangkok Cuisine on St. John St. is putting the place up for sale – the whole kit and kaboodle. [...]
On a tip from Portland Food Map, a few of us dropped by Bard Coffee Roasters for it’s soft opening this afternoon. What a pleasant surprise.
Measuring sticks, old and new
Espresso is the rod by which I judge a coffee shop. Arabica has been my gold standard for some time – the shots there [...]
In a blog comment, Nate Todd lays out an extensive description of why he switched from a PHP based framework (CakePHP) to Ruby on Rails. The points he makes reflect a lot of what I hear from people coming to rails, and some I’ve made myself – albeit not as eloquently as those you’ll [...]
If you haven’t already, go read Jared Spool’s telling of the “$300 million dollar button”:
“The form was simple. The fields were Email Address and Password. The buttons were Login and Register. The link was Forgot Password. It was the login form for the site. It’s a form users encounter all the time. How could they [...]
If you find yourself in the Bangor area, don’t miss Giacomo’s. I’m telling you this not just because it’s one of the only places you can get espresso in town – the food is also Chock Full O‘ Yum. I think they explain it best:
“Our sandwiches consist of fine imported [...]
Some time ago, we received a report of an instructor having problems accessing the grade center within their course. The confirmed behavior resulted in several similar errors (often depending on the browser used) when attempting to load the grade center. These errors all began with the string “An unexpected error occurred while loading the [...]
