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Contrary to popular belief a hacker is neither a criminal nor a programmer, well not all the time. Hackers ask why. Why can't you communicate in 140 characters at time, why can't we have horseless carriages, why can't we fly, and yes even, why can't I log in to every account on that ultra secure website. Hackers don't settle for no. Tell a hacker something cannot be done. They'll ask why and then they'll do it. You can't fly across Europe for 5 euros, RyanAir thought otherwise.

How do you hack your job everyday? What out of the box ideas have you tried? What have you encouraged your team to try? Hack your meetings, hack your rolodex, hack the office. A hacker is never complacent.

Looking forward to hearing what you've hacked today.

1. First, install Kicker: sudo gem install kicker
2. Next, switch to your tests directory
3. kicker -e "phpunit Bundle/SomeBundle" Bundle/SomeBundle/ ../src/Bundle/SomeBundle/

The Kicker command structure is the command to be executed, followed by the directories or files to be watched. In my example, the tests in the SomeBundle directory are run and if any file in the test directory or the src directory are changed the tests are run. When phpunit finishes running a growl notification will be made. Using the Growl control panel, you can change the types of growls that are produced on either successful or failed tests. I like the Music Video display style.

Special thanks to my coworker Justin for pointing this out.

That being said, I've dealt with all manners of javascript and css trickery. Granted, I use prototype and scriptaculous to do most of the heavy lifting. None the less,  I feel qualified to answer all manners of questions in this space. So, ask away: @ me on twitter: http://twitter.com/cranberyxl, This way we can keep the answers out in the open, and if I don't know the answer, may be someone else does. I fI cant' answer in 140 characters, I'll link to a blog post back here.

"pageLength":{"0":"10"}

The simple solution I came up with, but which were not readily apparent in the documentation is that you need to simply cast the SimpleXML variable to a string or int.

$object->pageLength = (int)$xml->element;

which produces this json:

"pageLength":0

Hope this helps someone else save some time.

Once in Seattle we met up with Stan, went to the mixer and Gnomedex was on. After spending the past few months hanging out in Chris Pirillo's live chatroom, it was a pleasure to finally meet him and his wife Ponzi in person. They put on a wonderful weekend where the field is very level and you are equally likely to get into a conversation with a new blogger or a seasoned blogger like Robert Scoble. The presenters provided a wide variety of topics covering everything from open money to elder blogging.

It was really cool to meet some of out users who are doing cool things with Lijit. Deepak Singh has found some really cool academic uses that he writes about here. Of course, there were people that knew our fabulous evangelist Tara, like Tajee, a Japanese video blogger. Perhaps I can use her videos to learn a little Japanese. It was wonderful to be surrounded by people that understood what we do, where the odd Web 2.0 lexicon that we've developed was okay to use. I think Chris Brogan really understood and did a nice write up that has turned a few heads our direction. I'm very excited to see where things go.

I definitely look forward to going to Gnomedex 08, seeing old faces, and meeting new people. Stepping outside of Boulder and our developing tech scene and into a room full of people from the Valley was very energizing, but now I've got a lot of coding to do.

Single File

1. Select the file you want to edit
2. Right click on the selected file (ctrl-click Mac) and Choose Get Info
3. Choose the Options tab
4. Select remember playback position
5. Click OK

Multiple File

1. Select the files you want to edit
2. Right click on the selected files (ctrl-click Mac) and Choose Get Info
3. If prompted about editing multiple files, select Yes
4. At the bottom of the dialog box change Remember Position to Yes, and check the box next to it
5. Click OK

Now, the tracks the you selected will remember their playback position, just like podcasts.

At the risk of repeating news, and reporting it late at that, in internet time at least, and using too many appositives in a sentence, prototype has finally gotten documentation!

According to their website:

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.

Basically, it aims to take a lot of the common functions that web developers use, finding elements on a page, making ajax calls, writing classes, etc and wrap them into a library that worries about the various browser implementations of javascript so that you don't have to.

Prototype has recently been officially released as version 1.5, up to now there had been a few release clients. As part of the release they have released a website at prototypejs.org that finally includes a central place to view API documentation and discuss how you use prototype with other developers! Additionally, the people at Global Moxie have made the documentation available as a pdf for easy printing and offline reference. Great work!

This brings me to wonder what will win in this space. Will users find enough value from the widgets on a blog page to venture outside of their newsreaders? Will content producers continue to syndicate their entire posts? Will a happy medium be found where newsreaders and home page destinations equalize? Will someone discover how to integrate widgets into RSS? It will be interesting to find out.