REST URL schemes in Ember

2014-04-12

In Ember, the default is for the name of your model corresponds to a REST route of the same name. So what happens when you’re using hyphens in the URL? You can’t name your model to match, but the solution is quite simple, although it did take me a lot…

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CVs

2013-03-28

Style over substance may be a common phrase but frequently CVs possess neither. Layout Inconsistencies make CVs difficult to scan read. Sure, it’s not going to be a work of art (unless you’re a designer of some sort, in which case it should be: show off your talents) but it…

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Qualitative vs quantitative experience

2013-03-02

Frequently, companies will specify in job adverts that a potential candidate must have an arbitrary number of years’ experience. Such requirements amuse me, as the experience metric is flawed. For me, it shows a lack of understanding and a lack of thought. For the purposes of analogy, take football as…

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Tweaking Twitter with Firefox

2010-09-23

A lesser known feature of Firefox, is its facility to allow the user to write custom CSS and have it apply to particular websites. userContent.css resides in your Firefox profile, under the chrome directory. Open it with a text editor and you can play around. Here’s a few very basic…

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Quick and easy translations with Firefox & Google

2010-06-27

Google Translate has the following URL format: <http://translate.google.com/#de|en|%s>Where “de” is the language you’re translating from, “en” is the language you’re translating to, and “%s” represents the string to translate. This makes it very easy to create Firefox Quicksearches for various translations. You can find the short code for the language…

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