Halfway Through

We’re halfway through the winter holidays and I’m not even close to halfway through my holiday vacation todo list. sigh But, there’re good things a brewin’.

Vancouver pan

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So you want to go to India

Edit: How quickly information becomes stale. Before I had even written this post, the process for acquiring a VISA to visit India had already changed. In fact, it changed just a few short months after I went through the process. Instead of any of the below, go to http://www.visa.blsindia-usa.com/ and follow the instructions.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I greatly enjoyed my visit to India. However, there was a great deal of work to be permitted to travel there. In this post, we discuss what was involved in the preparation.

Aga Khan Palace

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Quickly create a Google hangout with Alfred

At Big Nerd Ranch, we set up our lita clone (a ruby based chat bot similar to hubot) so that it would generate Google hangout links for us that would allow us to quickly share the URL with a co-worker or client. But times, they be a changin’.

president_obama_google_hangout

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Octopress love; twitter update

Tweets in the sidebar for your health!

octopress

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good news everyone

I’ve got some great news related to this image. And I’ve got a new skill.

The Pool at Loews

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Quick-Recap

I feel guilty for letting my blog sit silent for the past five months. From presidents to games to around the world travels, here’s a quick highlight reel of what’s happened..

cappuccino dog (coffee) CIMG0108

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Weechat Bliss

Back in Weechat Karmageddon, I spoke about a script I wrote to make giving hubot karma easy-peasy. In this post, we’ll talk about the rest of my weechat setup.

Buddha dog

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quickr flickr search

I’ve owed skalnik a debt ever since he introduced me to Alfred.

Money

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ruby debugger protips

I’ve been a big fan of debuggers ever since my first gig, an internship with Cisco Systems in 2000, where I became very familiar with gdb.

But I’ve had my complaints about the state of debugging in ruby. Read on to find how I’ve put my foot in my mouth.

Foot in mouth

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resque-lonely job

A new version of resque-lonely_job has been released!

Alone

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