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Fun little projects
While I spend most of my time in front of a keyboard and monitor, my wife Eva Funderburgh spends her time sculpting amazing, imaginary ceramic creatures. Her beasts are assembled out of different clays and wood-fired. About a year ago she enlisted my help in building a new type of beast with egg-shaped domes on... [ read more ]
As an emacs user, I’ve found iswitchb (interactive-switch-buffers) to be a huge time saver. Basically, to switch files (buffers) you enter a typically byzantine key combination and then type to search through your open files – as less and less files match your search, the choices narrow down, and you can choose between them. This... [ read more ]
Ruby on Rails has some great caching support built right in, but it’s most useful when you have MemCacheD or DRb around to serve as a cache store. I don’t have access to those everywhere – Dreamhost and other shared hosting providers often prohibit running your own MemCacheD. There’s a default memory store, but it... [ read more ]
In my previous post, “Investigating JavaScript Array Iteration Performance“, I found that among a selection of different array iteration methods, jQuery’s each function was the slowest. It’s worth mentioning again that these investigations are pretty academic – array iteration and looping speed is unlikely to be the source of performance problems compared to actual program... [ read more ]
I'm Benjamin Hollis, a software developer in Seattle. I'm into design, user experience, desktop and server application development, and gaming.