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aschroder

  1. Amazon's error messages are cute: "The value exceeds the maximum number of bytes allowed: 2000" And yes, that's bytes, not characters ü
  2. @brentwpeterson @tseeparsan @sherrierohde You absolutely must try toast with marmite then avocado on top + salt and pepper, 100% excellent!
  3. @tseeparsan NZ!
  4. @srcasm I hope that's true! It'd be a hard sell, what have you got in mind?
  5. @demisbellot I wish! Sadly I don't control the incoming data, XML wouldn't have been my first choice :/
  6. …on the plus side, I have over 1500 extensions downloaded from Magento Connect, and am going to static analyze for conflicts.
  7. 2am. Wasted hours trying to parse xml in a new language, would be a 10 min job in java. Maybe I'm getting too old to learn new tricks :(
  8. for key in `cat keys.txt ` ; do ./mage download community $key ; done :)
  9. Trend of my techie interactions this weekend has been try a new language. @jordanorelli votes @go_lang and @demisbellot votes @dart_lang
  10. My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Home Brew (21), The Black Keys (8) & Jack White (4) bit.ly/cQg7Tz
  11. Hah I got 36/50 (+3 more I couldn't spell) on this US Quiz, someone from the US try please, NO CHEATING :) sporcle.com/games/g/states
  12. @getsolidstate a lot of the fast hosts on Mage speed test use varnish in front and punch holes for dynamic stuff, I think. Not app level tho
  13. The line for Grimaldi's, still a lot of people lined up despite the rain, must be good! twitter.com/aschroder/stat…
  14. OK, web app creators, CMD-Left arrow means go to the start of a line of text, NOT go back and lose all the contents of the form!
  15. @FutureDeryck haha oh yes, there will be dinosaurs!
  16. @mikelphotos nope, it was just a glitch in iPhoto apparently, Image Capture got them.
  17. phew Image Capture.app to the rescue!
  18. How about this heat? youtube.com/watch?v=2JoKJs… #NYC
  19. Wow, there's a first, iPhoto crashed mid-way through pulling photos off my phone, now the photos are gone. Lost my natural history dinos! :(
  20. @magentogirl Not yet, we did natural history museum today, pretty cool dinosaurs!