I'm Officially a Portland Local
2,300+ miles, 3 1/2 days and 10 states later, we’ve completed our move from Memphis, TN to Portland, OR.
Wow, what a drive! The Oregon countryside is breathtaking. Wyoming and Utah were also beautiful, but the drive alongside the Columbia River in Oregon made the trip that much more enjoyable.
My wife and I, along with a long-time friend of ours, took one of the most amazing cross-country drives you could take. We’ve been planning the move to Portland for some time, and now we’re officially here.
One of the primary reasons for moving to Portland was to consolidate Active Reload into one city. We’ll be sharing an office with the talented guys over at Kongregate and couple people from Caboo.se. I expect some exciting things to happen as a result of this.
In addition to the Active Reload news, Portland is just a great city full of talented people, not to mention the excellent food and topnotch beer. If you’re in Portland, maybe we’ll get together and experience some of that great food and beer.
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Justin develops iPhone and Mac software over at Labrat Revenge by night and by day he is the Design Director for entp, the company behind Lighthouse, Warehouse, and Mephisto. You can check out his dated portfolio for a peek of what he's done.
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Beautifully simple issue tracking and project management. With a beautiful Mac-like interface, email and subversion integration, Lighthouse is the perfect project management tool. We took the suck out of issue tracking.
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Jan12
YouTube has just announced HouseHub and Senate Hub.
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Oct10
Best Practices For Cocoa and CocoaTouch—Invaluable tips from Cocoa developers.
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Sep25
Track House And Senate Votes On Twitter. I’ve put together a small script that parses vote data collected by Govtrack.us and posts to twitter.
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Protip: Color grep searches in terminal
alias grep='GREP_COLOR="1;37;41" LANG=C grep --color=auto'Stash this away in your Z Shell (~/.zshenv) or Bash environment (~/.bashrc) and set your preferred ANSI code.
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Jun08
ActiveRecord Ported To Objective-C brought to us by Ninja Kitten
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May06
With the release of Opera’s DragonFly, IE 8’s Developer tools, Safari’s/Webkit’s Web Inspector and Drosera; and the Grand Daddy of them all, Firebug – we’ve now come full circle.
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Feb08permalink
DoubleClick and Define using Apple Dictionary
var selection; if(window.getSelection) selection = window.getSelection(); else if(document.selection) selection = document.selection.createRange(); document.observe("dblclick", function() { if(navigator.userAgent.include("Macintosh")) { location.href = "dict://" + selection; } });A quick (and probably dirty) Prototype-based hack allowing Mac users to get the definition of any word by double clicking it.
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Object.extend(Date.prototype, { strftime: function(format) { var day = this.getUTCDay(), month = this.getUTCMonth(); var hours = this.getUTCHours(), minutes = this.getUTCMinutes(); function pad(num) { return num.toPaddedString(2); }; return format.gsub(/\%([aAbBcdDHiImMpSwyY])/, function(part) { switch(part[1]) { case 'a': return $w("Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat")[day]; break; case 'A': return $w("Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday")[day]; break; case 'b': return $w("Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec")[month]; break; case 'B': return $w("January February March April May June July August September October November December")[month]; break; case 'c': return this.toString(); break; case 'd': return this.getUTCDate(); break; case 'D': return pad(this.getUTCDate()); break; case 'H': return pad(hours); break; case 'i': return (hours === 12 || hours === 0) ? 12 : (hours + 12) % 12; break; case 'I': return pad((hours === 12 || hours === 0) ? 12 : (hours + 12) % 12); break; case 'm': return pad(month + 1); break; case 'M': return pad(minutes); break; case 'p': return hours > 11 ? 'PM' : 'AM'; break; case 'S': return pad(this.getUTCSeconds()); break; case 'w': return day; break; case 'y': return pad(this.getUTCFullYear() % 100); break; case 'Y': return this.getUTCFullYear().toString(); break; } }.bind(this)); } });UPDATE: Bugs fixed. Thanks Andrew and Stephen
Also, some of my old and new code has been posted on GitHub. You might find something useful.
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Feb04
A beautiful, organic animation by Flight404 created using Processing.
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Jan08
Aaron Patterson shows us how to define ruby methods which can be called from JavaScript using RKelly.
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Jan07
Dustin might not surprise you at your house with a book in hand, but he’ll damn sure send you his innermost fu in the form of a shiny yellow and black book. It’s an excellent read if you’re looking to put more funk in your functions and class in your classes. Check out “Pro JavaScript Design Patterns” by Dustin and Ross Harmes.
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Dec23
IE 8 PAsses the Acid 2 Test for those not keeping tabs on things.
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Oct24
Mislav has written up an excellent overview on upgrading Radiant (which used 1.5) to Prototype 1.6. The article does a great job of showing how 1.6 is superior to 1.5.
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Oct19
According to the New York Times, the Daily Show Archives, with over 7,000 videos are online—free and searchable.
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Discussion
It’s been 7 1/2 years since I moved to Portland from California. It’s been one of the best decisions. Welcome to the city and I hope that to see more of you in person! :-)
Welcome to Portland. It’s great having more talented developers to pool from. And welcome to the rain!
I don’t miss the rain at all, but I sure do miss Coffee People… I vaguely recall the drink being called the ‘Slammahamma’ or some such. :-)
@robby: Thanks. Looking forward to it!
@Jesse: The rain and the short Winter days. I’ve been told the sun doesn’t set until about 10pm in the Summer, so I guess that makes up for it. :-D
@Spacemonkey: I might have to look for that brew.
I’m making the move to Portland in January along with my company WeoGeo.
It’s exciting to see all the Rubyists and other talented people that I’ll soon be neighbors with.
Justin,
One thing to note… is that native Oregonians won’t let you get away with calling yourself a “local” until you’ve been here about 10 years. It’s been 7 1/2 and I am still a “Californian” to them. ;-)
Very brave to travel across the mountains this time of year! I did it in October and had a freak snow storm in Wyoming when I moved to Portland 8+ years ago. Good luck!
I’ll clean the desks and do daily computer maintenance for a couch to loaf on. Oh, and a photo workshop weekend that I owe you.
hmm.. somehow i don’t think just setting up in portland will make you a local, I’ve been in my current town since i was 2 years old, and i’m still not considered a local. Although setting up your stuff with caboo.se and such is great news, maybe we’ll see the fruits of this in some of your app’s near futures :)
For the sake of semantics, we’ll say “resident”, but “local” isn’t the same as “native”.
Welcome to the beautiful Pacific Northwest! I hope you enjoy the excellent public transit system we have, which is oh so nicely integrated into Google Maps, and I hope you get to enjoy Portland’s common status as the most bike-friendly city in the country (and one of the friendliest in the world). I hope to cross paths with you some time.