Setting up a new Mac is always a joy. You forget how many configuration errors you solved long ago. Here’s one I just ran into. I started getting this error when doing OAuth with…
Went to Hardware Ranch with Mason and Jeff tonight and had a great time – no snakes. I thought we did pretty good – 44 miles in sub 2 hours. However, a quick check of Strava will…
I don’t have to reboot my Mac very often but when I do it feels like spend forever getting things setup so that I can start development. I finally got sick of all the hassle and…
On our first day at Disneyland we decided to try something new. We took some food and left all our credit cards in the hotel. I know that’s funny. It’s kind of like saying we…
It’s not often that the stars align and two big events coincide. Today is Father’s day, but it’s also our anniversary. Today is a big deal since it marks 15 years of being married…
During our trip to Southern California I realized that it’s not just Disneyland that is a wonderland, separate and distinct from the rest of the world, but most of Southern…
We’re driving across the California desert right now. The thermometer says it’s 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Every time we have to stop and get out of the car the kids tell me the heat…
I ran across a problem in the javascript for the OER Glue mashup process today that surprised me. We’re using backbone.js and so I had constructed a login form via one of the…
We refactored OERGlue to use backbone.js. That makes our life a lot simpler. Along the way we discovered require.js and I entered nerdvana. The documentation for require.js and…
Just in time for Christmas. Every developer who’s been good this year is hoping for a new MacBook under the tree. (Actually your better off waiting since Apple is likely to…
Like so many other internet startups, OER Glue is a multi-tenant application. The process of hosting many of clients using a single piece of software presents a number of…
I’ve been integrating backbone.js into OER Glue. After years of writing all kinds of spaghetti javascript code to manage client side ajax backbone.js is like manna from heaven. If…
OER Glue makes heavy use of jQuery. We’re currently working on a proxy version of the technology that won’t require installing a browser plugin. It’s pretty cool. One of the…
We’ve been looking at proxy solutions to help us deliver OER Glue courses to learners without the requirement of installing an extension. There are an insane number of proxy…
It’s ‘funny’ how seemingly simple things take you down nasty paths. I was hoping to spend a few minutes playing with Goliath. That led me to installing ruby 1.9.2 using rvm which…
Just spent the week with my family in Teton Valley and Grand Teton National Park. After four days of kids, mosquitoes and me biking every day my wife is not going to divorce me so…
I messed up my local install of MySQL (it’s a long story that involves me almost throwing a punch to my 30” monitor). I finally gave up, deleted everything MySQL related according…
I ran into a problem while trying to install mysql using homebrew: Basically, the script couldn’t find the mysql source code. Luckily homebrew uses ruby. So fixing the problem was…
I think our biggest question going into BoomStartup was “is this really worth 6% of our company?” Now that week one is coming to a close I believe that the answer is yes. Both…
It’s 8pm and we’re still here. We’re staying the night in SLC so there’s really not much reason to leave. If we can just find some showers we might just spend the night…. Our day…