September 2010
5 posts
Your 10k Apart
We lost the 10k Apart contest, so I figured I’d upload the screen that appears when you submit your entry:
What I Learned from Startup Bootcamp 2010
Just start programming and build something.
Keep focused and always have a plan that you must change/adapt as necessary.
Be nice to everybody and grow your network.
Chris Wanstrath, founder of GitHub
Its okay if your idea is unoriginal, mundane, or has a terrible pitch. Github was created as a tool to help the founders build their original startup idea, Famspam, a way for family members to...
2 tags
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:103...
Just upgraded from Ruby 1.9.1 to 1.9.2 and Passenger (mod_rails) was throwing some crazy errors. The “gem” command was also throwing some errors. Turns out rubygems is trying to read your gems from an old 1.9.1 directory. The fix is to delete everything rubygem-related in /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/.
Some links for further reading on the issue:
...
The Best Twitter HashTag Regular Expression
I personally guarantee that this is the best Twitter hash tag regex in the world, until you prove me wrong.
This is my fool-proof methodology:
I tweeted a string with randomly placed hash tags, saw what Twitter did with it, and then tried to match it with a regular expression. Here’s what I got:
/\B#\w*[a-zA-Z]+\w*/
10k Random, a word game.
A little word game my friend, Matthew Moore, and I made for An Event Apart competition to create an HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript application under 10K.
http://10k.aneventapart.com/Entry/400