Ian Blackman Web Software Engineer

Code monkey by day, and code ninja by night, he uses his Computer Engineering background from UCSD to develop awesome code. Do not be fooled by his friendly demeanor, or his title, as he is very dangerous and swift in the code trenches. He is known to love *nix, programming standards, Vim, CakePHP, MySQL, jQuery, and the Chargers, so be warned.
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We are all Cyborgs

In between my Pomodoro breaks, I like to either:

  • Stare at nothing
  • Solve my Rubik’s cube for the millionth time
  • Read a tech blog

I found this a while ago, but it’s a pretty rad link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now.html

I especially like the part about wormholes and being able to connect to somebody, anywhere. I’m a sucker for that kind of sci-fi stuff, but a cell phone as portable wormhole? Nice.

Also, having two “selfs” is a very interesting concept — your physical one and your digital one. Not only that, but having to go through adolescence again (for our digital self) blew my mind.

As far as being a Cyborg, not sure though. Might have to ask my favorite cyborg:

Ian Blackman
Posted by Ian Blackman on April 14, 2011
Categories: Culture
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Google Instant: faster searches

So I split my windows in Vim and I wanted to rotate my viewports. I forgot the command, so naturally here comes Google to the rescue. I noticed something fast and new today: an ajaxy-like search.

Basically, when you do a search now, the SERP will be re-populated *only* — which means less reloads of the whole page. Google is calling it Google Instant and it’s pretty sweet. Their most recent blog post says that it offers dynamic search, predictions, and even a drop down to select the usual “I’m feeling lucky” direct link.

If you notice there’s an “X” and if you click that, the SERP is blanked out:

Pretty cool stuff. I also tested to see what would happen if JavaScript was disabled, and it turns out it functions as normal, degrading gracefully to a regular search. Try it out today, it’s awesome!

Ian Blackman
Posted by Ian Blackman on September 8, 2010
Categories: Develop, Market
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Hello World!


Hello world, my name is Ian (pronounced “eye-yen”). I am a busy guy ’round these parts at Ninthlink. But I wanted to give a quick intro on who I am and what you can expect from me.

  1. I am a big Chargers fan.
    I am still hurting after that loss to the Jests, I mean Jets. 13-3 season and seriously, how did that happen?
  2. Last year I made the switch from PC -> Mac
    You would be calling me a hypocrite last year as I was always calling those PC versus Mac commercials “dumb.” Now I totally understand. I used to think using BootCamp to run Windows 7 was awesome (I still do), I completely erased that partition and now I am a full Mac convert (fanboy?). Although, I still run Windows XP in VirtualBox, just to check for web standards when developing.
  3. I love Rubik’s cubes.
    Want to see a Rubik’s cube solved in under 14 seconds? Want to see it being solved by a Lego Mindstorms bot?
  4. I love code and programming.
    I’ll be randomly sharing my thoughts about this, so hopefully it’s useful. Maybe if you’re lucky, I’ll share my .vimrc file for you to bask in the glory that is Vim — the king of editors. In any case, check out how 7 years of coding is like — visually.

I think I might’ve gone link happy, but I have to hook you in some how right?

Ian Blackman
Posted by Ian Blackman on August 30, 2010
Categories: Develop
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