Dumping Ground

Using Vimdiff with Git Diff

I've moved this post to my new blog: http://samuelmullen.com/2011/04/using-vimdiff-with-git-diff/

Filed under // git vim

Posted April 7, 2011

David Chelimsky's Answer to Testing Named Scopes

Moved: http://samuelmullen.com/2011/03/david-chelimskys-answer-to-testing-named-scop/

Filed under // activerecord rspec ruby on rails scopes

Posted March 18, 2011

Parallel Programming with Dropbox

Moved: http://samuelmullen.com/2011/03/parallel-programming-with-dropbox/

Filed under // TDD dropbox parallel programming programming

Posted March 10, 2011

Installing the Command-T VIM Plugin on Ubuntu

Moved: http://samuelmullen.com/2011/02/installing-the-command-t-vim-plugin-on-ubuntu/

Filed under // linux ubuntu vim

Posted February 22, 2011

My boss, Wes asked me the other day if Google was able to read embedded code from Pastie or Github's Gist. According to this thread from Github, they (Github) don't believe search engines can render JavaScript. I think they're wrong though. In an interview with searchnewz, Matt Cutts (Google's webspam chief) made the following two points:

For a while, we were scanning within JavaScript, and we were looking for links. Google has gotten smarter about JavaScript and can execute some JavaScript. I wouldn't say that we execute all JavaScript, so there are some conditions in which we don't execute JavaScript. Certainly there are some common, well-known JavaScript things like Google Analytics, which you wouldn't even want to execute because you wouldn't want to try to generate phantom visits from Googlebot into your Google Analytics".

Matt Cutts: We do have the ability to execute a large fraction of JavaScript when we need or want to. One thing to bear in mind if you are advertising via JavaScript is that you can use NoFollow on JavaScript links"

It sounds to me like Google has the ability to read embedded code from Pastie, Github, and other places if they want to. Bing probably can too, but it may need to be proxied through Google first.

But I want proof. So, I've thrown together a pretty lame little block of code to see if I can't get some Google juice flowing. I'll let you know the results as soon as I find out.

Update Feb 5, 2011: I need to retry this using something other than Posterous. Posterous actually retrieves the code, and embeds the actual contents in the post.

Filed under // code gist google seo

Posted February 4, 2011

Ubuntu 10.10 and the Asus Eee Keyboard

Moved: http://samuelmullen.com/2011/02/ubuntu-1010-and-the-asus-eee-keyboard/

Filed under // asus eee keyboard linux ubuntu

Posted February 2, 2011

The Pick Smoke 'n Grill

Just ate at a new restaurant here in Western Shawnee, "The Pick Smoke 'n Grill". The best way to describe it is as a sports bar meets a barbecue joint. I can't say it's strictly a barbecue place because barbecue was only part of the menu. The rest of the menu was very much like what you would find in a sports bar. It was still good, mind you, I'm just trying to let you know what the menu is going to look like.

I was pretty hungry - shocking, I know - but I really didn't know what to order. The owner suggested the "Porker Burger". It's a burger with pulled pork and bacon on top. "Just what the [cardiologist] ordered."

The pork and bacon were great, but the burger itself was a formerly frozen patty. Could have done with a few more fries, but still, for $7 it was happiness on a plate.

It seems really dead at lunchtime, so I'm going back tomorrow to try something else.

Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=10755287883475674896

Filed under // barbecue restaurants reviews

Posted December 13, 2010

Riddle me this

Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person.

Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totalling $27. The bellboy has $2, totalling $29.

Where is the remaining dollar?

via woosk.com

Posted November 17, 2010