I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier
This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.
Enterprise intelligence with prediction markets
Find out what your team, colleagues and partners really know about the future — and leverage their knowledge to improve business decisions.
I'm the founder of Planypus, the place to share your plans!
Reach me at yan at pritzker.ws
A new section of the Yahoo Design Pattern Library (YDPL) is on Social Reputation. Besides having a nice library of software/UI patterns at the YDPL, apparently they’re doing social behavior patterns as well. Yahoo identifies five different competitiveness levels for social communities (Caring, Collaborative, Cordial, Competitive, Combative) and recommends different ways of handling reputation in [...]
Disclaimer: This post contains evil (but highly fun!) code. Proceed at your own peril… I was recently designing an application that needed to execute some long running requests against an external host. If you’ve ever tried doing something like this in Rails, you’ll find your mongrels will block up waiting for the request to complete, [...]
If you’ve deleted a bunch of files in your directory, here’s a handy bash alias to git rm the changes into your index. alias gitrm=”git stat | grep deleted | awk ‘{print $3}’ | xargs git rm” Update: turns out git add -u takes care of deleted files.
© Yan Pritzker. Powered by WordPress using a DePo Clean Theme modified by Yan Pritzker.
