The Archives: Programming

I recently stumbled across a rather cool website called Peoples Archive. It has tons of short videos with “the world’s greatest thinkers, creators, and achievers.” While some …

I read The Last Battle in a two-hour sitting last night. I’d forgotten how wonderful it is to sit down with a book and read it in one long …

This morning after I left the temple, an idea came into my head. It looked roughly like this:

And now, eleven hours later (with an hour …

So, I like design (typography, bookmaking, etc.) and textual work (like with An Icelandic Primer). It gives me great joy and satisfaction.

I also like programming. I’ve done …

I just wrote a little Ruby on Rails app that pulls all my Top of the Mountains posts and comments from the database and exports them to HTML. When …

Turns out that Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto), the creator of the very popular programming language Ruby, is LDS. Yes, that’s right. And it’s not even a rumor. …

It’s interesting to see which posts get the most comments, and so this morning I wrote a little plugin for WordPress that displays just that. You can see its …

So remember how I didn’t like the name “Digital Bridge”? I still don’t, and so I’ve created Outside the Box to be my new programming/computers blog. It’ll …

I’ve moved Beyond to www.beyondproject.org. (Since I already had the subdomain up, all I had to do was …

Google’s starting their annual Summer of Code again. It’s tempting to try to get accepted (you get a $5,000 stipend), but I’ve got too many other things going …

I’ve finally moved my Beyond development blog off Blogspot. Expect more updates on that front soon.

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Here’s a bit from the 37signals website that really hits the mark on my new perspective on software design:

Our products do less than the competition — intentionally…. We …

I just noticed today that Answers.com now has Ajax completion. Interesting. Everyone seems to be hopping onboard the Ajax train, so it’s time to start learning how …