Decided to Move My Blog to Posterous

Phillip Campbell published on 2012-01-20

Seems like I have a hard time being motivated enough to write anything down. There is definitely some overhead in writing my own blog, which is why I moved away from my custom Django blog. From there I have tried a bunch of static site generators powered by git/github (like nanoc, jekyll and webgen). I think switching to a tool that I don’t have to maintain and has features like mobile compatibility or email posting might tip me over the edge.

V8 Scons Error

Phillip Campbell published on 2010-06-06

While trying to install Google v8, I had an error:

Javascript State Machine

Phillip Campbell published on 2009-10-14

I wrote a simple Javascript State Machine. It is intended for keeping track of what the current state is for my heavy AJAX app at work. I also learned a lot about OO in javascript without using jQuery or the prototype framework, by using prototypes. I wanted to do that so that it would be framework independent. Below is a simple example of how I use the state machine, and shows a bit of how I connected it with Really Simple History

Ruby Multi-dimensional Array Helper

Phillip Campbell published on 2009-08-28

I needed something to help me get through a multi-dimensional array. So I extended the Array class.

Grab expects an array of coordinates.

Cucumber With Selenium and Authlogic

Phillip Campbell published on 2009-08-19

I had some Issues with cucumber/selenium working properly with authlogic. After much searching, I’ve figured out how to get it all to work properly.

I would get an error like:

e-Text Editor

Phillip Campbell published on 2009-08-18

Was attempting to compile e-text editor on ubuntu 9.10 (yea yea, I know… my right to complain about broken packages disappears since its alpha) just to try it out, but had a sick number of errors ranging from “Cannot compile wxWidgets” to “Cannot compile WebKit”.

Finally, after trying multiple ways of compiling wxWidgets, I figured out the real error was