This past weekend I decided to switch my blog from Posterous to Octopress, which uses Disqus as the commenting system.

When it comes to templates in JavaScript there are many options to fit a variety of needs. A very simple and lightweight option is the small _.template() function in the Underscore.js library.

In this posts I’ll show you how to use it with HAML and CoffeeScript.

When trying to upgrade from dotCloud CLI 0.3 to 0.4 under OSX running the following command

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$ sudo easy_install --upgrade dotCloud

I encountered this error

This experimental plugin can help you add keyboard navigation to your website or app.

This is a quick snippet to send an email message to Gmail in compose mode. It’s especially useful if you want to provide a form to compose an email or a link with predefined data to populate the subject, and body of an email message. It’s similar to mailto but targeted only for gmail.

Open Editor

I’ve recently started using Prosperous as my main blog and one of the first things I wanted to do was to retrieve a list of the most recent entries, so I could add them to another website.

This can be done with the Posterous API, but I needed an excuse to try Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) which allows to access public content from any website using a SQL like syntax.

This is an example of Java Server Pages intended for Baruch College students taking CIS 4160 during the Spring 2010 semester. The goal is to give you a very basic overview of how to connect to a database to obtain data.