http://www.meat.org/

I’ve always open to the idea of becoming a vegetarian for the the
health benefits alone. Throughout my life I’ve tried it for a week here, a week there.. you know how that goes.
It wasn’t until I started hanging out more with people who are part of that lifestyle that things really started to get me thinking about it again..( “you are who you hang out with” saying comes to mind..).

So over the past few months my shopping list has changed quite a bit. It now includes an almost all plant based diet including my new favourite, Avocados (with a little sea salt! mmm)

Here are some movies that really shifted my thinking, and may shift yours too… or at least make you a bit uneasy about how you may be eating

Food Inc. (Trailer)

(TORRENT DOWNLOAD  http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5137587 )

Forks Over Knives (Trailer)

(TORRENT file DOWNLOAD:  http://kat.ph/forks-over-knives-2011-t5785145.html )

Meet your Meat (Trailer)

WARNING.. this one is GRAPHIC!

 http://www.meat.org/

Some of you who know me personally know that my my father died of a massive heart attack when I was 8 years old. Since then I’ve always been more conscious of having a healthy heart and body in general. So please, If you don’t want this to happen to you, enlighten yourself in alternative ways of eating such as vegitarianism, vegan, or at the very least, cut out some of your meat consumption. And watch the videos above!

Cheers,

Kirk

Everytime I would make a change, even a small change like a sentence in a README file, and ran a cap deploy, Capistrano would do a git clone each time.

Now.. let’s say your in development or staging and you do 4 or 5 deploys a day.. and let’s also say that your codebase is 20MB. This means that doing about 80-100MB of bandwidth per day. Not to mention how much slower your deploys become or the fact that you’ll be paying for extra bandwidth charges to whomever you host your private repos with.

The simple fix

simply add the following lines to your recipe :

set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :git_shallow_clone, 1

That’s just a fancy way of saying to use a cache and run a git fetch/pull to that instead of an entire git clone each deploy.

This should save time and bandwidth.. YAY!

FireBug + FireCookie + CodeBurner

Firebug is a great tool in itself and chances are your using it or have at least heard of it. If you haven’t, I wont explain much here other then to say that if you were only to install one plugin from this page.. this is it.

But that’s not all… Firebug becomes even more powerful with FireCookie and CodeBurner. 

FireCookie is great for the times when you need quick cookie information.

CodeBurner makes valuable reference material for HTML and CSS available right in your browser. This tool is freaking awesome when trying to figure out which HTML elements, HTML attributes, CSS Properties CSS Selectors or CSS at-rules will work in the myriad of different browsers out there today.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843/ — Firebug

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6683/ — FireCookie
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10273/ — CodeBurner

Web Developer Toolbar

Need I say more. Contains almost everything you would ever need while laying out and developing your website or web application.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/

Live HTTP Headers

View HTTP headers of a page while browsing… this is very useful when doing more advance things like debugging your web application development. It’s also a helpful learning tool to see how things are working under the covers of the HTTP Protocol.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829/

ColorZilla

Building a color scheme for your design often requires finding inspiration and color schemes in other websites that fit your vision. Colorzilla helps by providing you with color code data in a very fast and unobtrusive way.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271/

Please let me know in the comments if there are any other great add-ons that I could add to the list. I’m sure I have everything I would ever need for web development but as we know this industry moves fast and there’s always new tools for doing old and new things…

Cheers