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Rake your site
Not to get too long winded about what this code does, it basically kicks your web deployment into high gear. It’s no secret that I love Ruby/Rake/Automation/Being Lazy, so I wrote a Rake script to manage concatenating/compressing my js and css, and deploying the site…at the same time testing in a couple of browsers. Now, ...
Hera
Today I “soft released” a static web site architecture named Hera. Hera evolved over the past couple of months out of some experimentation with Jekyll, Haml and Sass. Jekyll, created by Tom Preston-Werner, is a static blogging platform that is quickly catching momentum in the development community. After dealing with several hacking attacks and injections ...
Miss you dad.
Larry Connatser, my dad, was a man of great character. A veteran of the US Navy and the Vietnam war, son of a veteran of the US Army and Korean war, and grand son of a veteran of the US Navy and World War 2. I was destined to be military, and was on my ...
HydraulicLabs, simplified.
Today I totally simplified the way that HydraulicLabs will be presented, from a marketing standpoint. For several years I have relied on WordPress to be my blogging and web site backend, but no more. I have switched the HydraulicLabs site to use Jekyll, Haml, Bootstrap, and Sass. These are static template based tools, that simplify ...
Simple Git commit rake script
I have been learning a ton of different technologies lately, one set being Ruby, Rails and how to run Rake build scripts. So, since I like to 1) give away free scripts, 2) automate my daily workflow and 3) use my blog to remember things…here is a sample git commit rake script that I created ...
Private Methods in Objective-C
One of the first things I looked for when starting to learn Objective-C was how to implement “private” methods in a certain class. I say “private” because there is no real way to implement a private method in Objective-C, however this is a good way to at least hide a method. My team mates pointed ...
