Monthly Archives: September 2011

The other day I saw GoDaddy giving out “$1 for a domain” coupons if you “liked” them on facebook. That’s cool. I love $1 domains. But I don’t “like” anyone on facebook. So after almost an of poking around and … Continue reading →

The AWS::S3 gem is very convenient, but it was not immediately apparent to me how you could use it to download private files from amazon s3. It took me a while to figure this out, so hopefully it will help … Continue reading →

A reminder to myself on how to craft a JSON POST using cURL. curl -i -H “Accept: application/json” -H “Content-Type: application/json” -X POST -d “{‘json’:{‘data’:'here’}}” http://theurl.com/to/post/to A good reference link.

When I first heard of the “Chevy Volt” I went on Godaddy and bought the domain name “chevyvolt.org” — I would have bought “chevyvolt.com”, but it wasn’t available. GM had already bought it. I worked on chevyvolt.org for almost two … Continue reading →