I wanted to set up a Vagrant instance with node.js and some specific packages pre-installed. I found a Chef cookbook to install node and after a bit of work have a cookbook that will install arbitrary node packages through npm. I based this heavily on balbeko’s chef-npm cookbook with modifications to accept a data bag list of npm packages. ...

Yesterday’s Google I/O keynote unveiled some new features in Music, Maps and Search. But to me the biggest and most important announcement was the new Google+ photo features. Full-size high-resolution photos, automatic highlights of entire albums, automatic enhancement and auto-awesome combine to make Google+ the most feature packed photo hosting service on the web. Add the ability to share pictures with anyone via e-mail (take that Facebook) and Google+ is now the best social network to host and share photos. ...

No one can question Apple’s dominance in hardware. The build quality and user experience of the iPod, iPhone and iPad positioned Apple as the most profitable company in the world. However, with the build quality of rival devices quickly approaching Apple quality, software will be the next battleground for consumer loyalty. And Apple has a software problem. ...

I’m not sure why this was so difficult to discover. For the longest time I was not sure how to create a new file using NERDTree. I finally sat down and figure out how it works. ...

Submitting a Unity3d game to the Mac App Store is a somewhat painful process. This guide refers to Unity3d 3.5 but should apply to Unity 4.0 and up. ...

The latest version of OS X (Mountain Lion) broke compatibility with the vim and the OS clipboard. In most cases you can configure vim to use the operating system clipboard by setting clipboard=unnamed in your .vimrc. Unfortunately this setting does not work in OS X because the default version of vim was not compiled with clipboard support. You can check if your version of vim is compiled with clipboard support by typing vim –version and looking for clipboard. A prepended + means support is enabled. A prepended – means support is disabled. ...

I’ve been working with Prime31’s Etcetera plugin for iOS development with Unity3d. There are a lot of great things in there but some of the documentation is lacking. Anyways, if you want to show a local web page with the showWebPage command it is a two step process. ...

I had a tough time finding this page. The steps to get Unity set up with version control aren’t that difficult but it is one of those problems that you need to be told how to solve. ...

Saving HTML canvas element data to an image in a user friendly manner is a tricky problem. Let’s look at one way to solve it. ...

I’ve been getting familiar with the Leiningen build tool for Clojure but had trouble connecting to the Clojar and Maven repositories behind a proxy. ...