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While staying in Japan for the past few weeks, I’ve encountered a lot of strange and fun situations I’ve decided to write about. However, rather than writing about them in a blog I thought it would be more fun to...

— 15 April, 2025

皆のもの！今日は鮭のホイル焼きのレシピを紹介するでござる！
Word! Today we're making Salmon Foil-yaki.

— 22 February, 2015

皆のもの！今日は親子丼のレシピを紹介するでござる！
Today we're making Oyakodon, so get your oven mitts ready!

— 21 February, 2015

皆さんこんにちは！今日から一ヶ月後に日本に行きます！
Hey everyone! in one month I'll be going to Japan!

— 20 February, 2015

Although it’s very simple, I often forget how to add a shadow in iOS using Objective-C. It’s not so much that I forget, but that there are certain required parameters that need to be set in order for it to...

— 29 November, 2014

I had to revisit an old project today that was built on Cordova and App Framework. It was like hell reacquainting myself with the application and I’m still not through, but I thought I’d post a few quick references that...

— 06 November, 2014

In our app at work we use singletons in a few places. But when you search google for you get mixed answers for the right way to implement it. I became curious as to what the proper way to accomplish...

— 04 November, 2014

There are 5 things I really wish I knew about when I started ios development. If you’re just getting into it now, I think it will help. So let’s jump in. 1. Constraints, Constraints, Constraints! Constraints are a very important...

— 29 October, 2014

Today I installed iOS 8 beta 2. After installing, my contacts were gone and absolutely refused to sync from the Exchange account I had set up for my gmail. I’m going to teach you how to fix the sync issue...

— 26 June, 2014

Today at work I ran into a really irritating issue. None of my installed homebrew packages were found and when I tried to install them again using brew install it told me they were already installed. My paths all checked...

— 10 June, 2014

If you’ve just run into a problem where your storyboard or UI files in XCode open in a code editor it can be tedious to figure out what the problem is. The first time this happened to me I was...

— 03 June, 2014

Soon I’ll begin blogging more and more about iOS development. I hate XCode. Here are a few things to help get us started: XVim If you’re an absolute vim addict, such as myself, then pretty much everything you do on...

— 01 June, 2014

Ever want to select a random file on the command line? Or just randomize anything? Well it’s possible using shuf. We can use the shuf command to shuffle any input from stdin. Use ls | shuf -n1 to pull a...

— 20 April, 2014

Most of my Japanese I've picked up simply from talking to native speakers in Japanese. Asking them to repeat themselves a few hundred times, texting on "LINE":http://line.me/en/ and using my favorite iPhone Japanese Dictionary "imiwa?":https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imiwa-japanese-dictionary/id288499125?mt=8. One thing I picked up...

— 22 March, 2014

Lately at work I've been doing a lot of research and not a lot of blogging. I am going to make an attempt over the course of the next few days to update my blog to reflect the massive amount...

— 19 March, 2014

This is kind of embarrassing because it's something that I really should know but somehow I skipped over learning. For today's blog post I'm going to quickly review some vocabulary and phrases related to "your major." Granted I'm not a...

— 18 March, 2014

Somewhat inspired by my Japanese teacher’s request for me to write down (preferably on paper, with my own two hands) a journal entry—one sentence for each day of the week—I’ve decided to do it on the internet instead (where I...

— 04 March, 2014

I’ve seen a lot of bad code written before. This is partially because I’ve written a lot of bad code myself in the past (and for that matter, I still do sometimes). The first step to solving any problem is...

— 15 February, 2014

Today I just found out about a great utility called bar. bar shows a progress indicator on the command line. Bar can be installed via homebrew on os x: brew install bar I don’t know the exact syntax for the...

— 06 June, 2013

So today I got this annoying message from rake that I have seen way too many times. It looks something like the following: $ rake updb scripts/updb.sh rake aborted! Command failed with status (127): [./scripts/updb.sh...] /path/to/Rakefile:16:in `block in <top (required)>'...

— 06 June, 2013

Hey all, I haven’t been updating too much recently so I wanted to drop you a line and let you know what’s going on. I am starting to design some new sections of the site, since for a long time...

— 02 June, 2013

  Here is a cover of me playing Sick and Sad (Original Song by Catch 22)

— 31 May, 2013

Ah! Sorry I have not been keeping up with my studious ways. My Japanese P.I.C. (that's partner-in-crime, or in normal people speak my "study buddy") has been largely unavailable so I haven't been doing anything much in the line of...

— 30 May, 2013

  Here is the first episode of my first-ever video game playthrough. The Game is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for SNES. Hope you all enjoy it!

— 17 May, 2013

I finished up watching the Magi anime a few days ago and took some more notes. Here they are: h2. Vocabulary List: table(vocab). |_.What I thought I heard|_.What I actually heard|_.Meaning| |yatsura|やつら 奴ら|those guys| |shikashi|しかし|However; but| |nakimishiku|なきみそくん 泣き味噌くんなきむしくん泣き虫くん|なきみそ *なきむし* means...

— 12 May, 2013

In order to test some file based caching I designed in PHP the other day I had to expire one of my cache files by making it older than 1 day. To do that I used touch -mt: touch -mt...

— 11 May, 2013

Today I figured out how to create a keyboard shortcut to open a specific file in Sublime Text 2. This is useful, for example, for hotkeying my MAMP apache vhosts file—a file I commonly edit. Add the following to your...

— 10 May, 2013

Despite the fact that I did start writing articles yesterday tonight is the actual night I am launching the content, since I had to do quite a bit of work to figure out how I wanted the pages to be...

— 09 May, 2013

Today I started studying Japanese together with a friend. We both had studied separately and decided to brush up on our japanese. In addition to going through my beginner textbook, Japanese for Busy People, I decided that I would augment...

— 08 May, 2013

Typically for development I like to use the Firefox keywords feature to get me to where I need to be faster. The irritating part of this is that in order to create a keyword for a site you typically have...

— 18 April, 2013

I’ve seen a lot of solutions for this online but I didn’t really like any of them and they didn’t seem to fit my needs. Here is a function I wrote that you can add to your functions.php in your...

— 08 April, 2013

Since many of you are probably looking for an immediate solution to the problem I will post my solution first. #The Cure Let’s dive right in. First thing you should probably do is check your error logs (i.e., your apache...

— 04 April, 2013

  Acoustic guitar cover of me playing Letters To You by Finch.

— 12 March, 2013

A friend of mine for years has been searching for a way to instantly show his auto-hidden dock, with zero delay. Until he recently discovered the trick to removing the delay and shared it with me I could not understand...

— 10 January, 2013

Recently I’ve been working on a project which is using LESS to preprocess its CSS. The mockup design I was given requires image rollovers—which for the sake of having the rollover image ready and loaded—calls for the use of CSS...

— 02 January, 2013

Just the other day I realized I was using the OS X stock grep, which was lacking a few features I wanted, some features in particular are the ability to fully color highlight grep results with the --color option, or...

— 02 January, 2013

Anyone who owns a solid state hard drive and has a steam account can know how frustrating it may be running low on hard disk and not being able to split up your steam games. Today I’ve come up with...

— 20 April, 2012

This Article Is Outdated The information in this article is outdated and may contain information which is now incorrect. A newer version of this article is now available. By default OS X (10.7 in this case) comes installed with grep...

— 14 March, 2012

Recently I decided to give Sequel Pro another whirl instead of running SQLyog as I normally do on OS X under wine using WineBotter. My first objective, however, was to customize the color scheme to something my eyes are more...

— 13 March, 2012

  Me rocking out to some Rihanna on my drum set. The original song is S&M by Rihanna

— 12 March, 2012

One thing that’s really bugged me since I started using OS X Lion was the way my favorite coding font—Monaco—appears at 14pt and above. On my Snow Leopard installation of OS X the fonts appear bold-ish, but on Lion they...

— 29 February, 2012

A few days ago I set up PHPUnit on my OS X using MAMP’s pear. Everything seemed to be set up properly except I kept getting this weird issue anytime I ran phpunit, I would get the following: specs/ (dev)...

— 27 February, 2012

I found out today that it’s possible to autocomplete rake tasks in bash. All that’s needed is a simple ruby script and some changes to your ~/.profile. (Original information taken from a tumble blog post) First you need to grab...

— 27 February, 2012

Getting the job done for a particular task always calls forth the need for the proper set of tools. In this particular case, the task was to create a single-page static html content-rich site. When I say the site is...

— 23 February, 2012

One aspect of Mission Control in OS X Lion I found irritating was similar to the problem I had with Spaces on Leopard and Snow Leopard: customizing the shortcut keys to whatever I wanted. For a while, I had been...

— 16 February, 2012

One of the most aggravating things I’ve had to put up with in Lion so far since I started using it a month back probably has to be the revamped concept of spaces. Being a huge linux nerd, I jumped...

— 09 February, 2012

To fix an incorrect commit message to the head of a repository use the following command: git commit --amend This will allow you to enter a new message for the previous commit. From stack overflow: Used to amend the tip...

— 08 February, 2012

When trying to run a Rakefile that I created under a linux environment on OS X for the first time I ran into this message: dlopen(/Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib Referenced from: /Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle Reason: image not found - /Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle...

— 03 February, 2012

I’ve only been using Jekyll for about a week now and I can already see how managing images for each post could be an issue. I figure, I can’t have just one image/ directory and dump everything in there because...

— 31 January, 2012

This one is a widely known feature of vim, as it should be for any other editor out there. Here’s a brief example on how to set your tab spacing settings depending on the filetype in vim. Add the following...

— 30 January, 2012

One of my biggest complaints about the terminal in OS X—vs. gnome-terminal in the linux world, and possibly a few other terms—is that when I am using git or svn and I want to add or commit only one file...

— 30 January, 2012

Today while trying to apply my catalog price rules I came across the following message: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'e.display_price_group_0' in 'field list' After searching google I found out that this can be fixed by rebuilding the...

— 30 January, 2012

Recently I’ve discovered the joys of working with less.css (not to be confused with the less framework, which is also related to CSS). I think the one thing that turned me on to the idea was the Less.app GUI application...

— 26 January, 2012

I came across an interesting bug today with Microsoft Excel 2012. Historically, Excel has had this lovely issue of not being able to handle importing CSV data when there is an endline character in the middle of a field. So...

— 25 January, 2012

The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 that I use at work has this lovely extra backspace button that I always seem to hit by mistake against the bottom side of the desk when using the keyboard on my lap, which...

— 24 January, 2012

When working with multiple computers it can be a pain to have to interface with multiple inputs such as keyboards, mice, etc. Not only does it get confusing from time to time, but it’s just plain annoying. Especially when there...

— 23 January, 2012

I was asked recently to provide a feed from Magento which would provide a list of all active SKUs, with product names, descriptions, urls and a comma separated list of categories by name. I assembled a query in MySQL. I...

— 23 January, 2012

Recently at my job I’ve started doing some work on a mac (yay!) which means I now get to use some of the fun extra mac tools that I don’t have available on linux, but it also means having some...

— 21 January, 2012

After not having the desire to post content to this site for a very long time I decided it was time to take action. But how? And what was the problem in the first place? ##The Problem I needed a...

— 21 January, 2012

  Here’s an original song I wrote and performed for a League of Legends song competition. I did not win :(

— 06 August, 2011

  This is me performing Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus.

— 26 June, 2011

  My first time trying to record a drum cover of a pop song. The original song is California Gurls by Katy Perry.

— 24 April, 2011

  Me performing Story of My Life by Social Distortion.

— 03 April, 2011

  This is the first music video I’ve ever made. It’s a cover the Uncle Kracker song Follow Me.

— 19 March, 2011