Allen Lew's Thoughts

Twitter Updates for 2012-04-03

Allen Lew — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0000

I modded a userscript to add a search @Yelp link for @Restaurant_com for use with @Betterworks Hope you find it useful: http://t.co/pA5pru5Z #

My Betterworks-Yelp Reviews Script

Allen Lew — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:03:11 +0000

Betterworks with yelp links

My company got signed up for the Betterworks perks program a few months back. Betterworks pays employees of their customers (my employer in this case) $50 a month to spend on food takeout, messages, car washes, and other fun activities. However, I was having a hard time finding figuring out the quality of the service from their listings, so I would search for reviews on Yelp. While that was easy enough on its own, I found a script that added a Yelp review search link to Restaurant.com and thought to myself, why not use this for Betterworks? So I modded the script for my own use, and now I have one button search Yelp for business reviews from Betterworks. Kind of neat. Install withGreasemonkey for Firefox and then click on the script link; Chrome users need Tampermonkey (Update: Tampermonkey is no longer needed thanks to code from Erik Vold). Source code is on Github.

Twitter Updates for 2012-03-30

Allen Lew — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:00:00 +0000

I was reduced to a nonspeaking cameo in this video, but it's still a neat introduction to what I do @rubiconproject:
http://t.co/VvzvYI29 #

Twitter Updates for 2012-03-02

Allen Lew — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Hey @Gmail, can you make your iPhone app not notify me when I archive a message? That's getting a bit annoying. #

Twitter Updates for 2012-02-27

Allen Lew — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Is it bad that I'm thinking this might actually be better than my current commute? Commuters Take the Morning Plane -http://buswk.co/wCGYgO #

Twitter Updates for 2012-02-25

Allen Lew — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Note to self: Proofread more of your typing. Making grammar mistakes and finding them hours/days later is not cool. #

Twitter Updates for 2012-02-24

Allen Lew — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Though after re-reading that article, it may also reflect how we judge the unemployed. After all, do they have money to travel and party? #
So those Facebook photos of parties you maybe worried about, may actually get a job. Go figure. cc @RoseAndrea http://t.co/UZFiu9h2 #

Twitter Updates for 2012-02-06

Allen Lew — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Belichick gambled and lost. He could have remembered that kickers don't always make the last second plays. #Superbowl #

Twitter Updates for 2012-01-24

Allen Lew — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Another cool tool: Vagrant, Ruby script for spinning up virtual machines with virtualbox: http://t.co/2yZVUPRS #scale10x #

Twitter Updates for 2012-01-21

Allen Lew — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Fourth tool: nventory for a graphical view of your data center #scale10x http://t.co/8PEVtlZv #
Third toolkit in my arsenal: monitoring sucks github repo of monitoring tools #scale10x https://t.co/PY2Rc4xt #
Second tool: libcloud, for accessing the various cloud services http://t.co/pS4kMV9A #
Things I'm keeping in my toolkit thanks to @socallinuxexpo. 1. Ubuntu Rescue Remix: utilities for fixing computers http://t.co/yWNlf18a #
Learning about harnessing the cloud @socallinuxexpo. #