December 2007
77 posts
Gmail has group chat now.
Pinto Beans, turnip greens with pepper sauce and corn bread muffins. Biscuit and apple butter for dessert. Now that is a southern dinner.
November 2007
130 posts
Off to meet my wife for dinner at Cracker Barrel
@jmccay It is the Dragon’s triangle.
Ran 4.73 miles (0:45:57). I love running in the fall. (www.traingo.com)
Implementing ActiveWarehouse on traingo.com [http://traingo.com] for analyzing workouts.
Going to helen’s for a visit.
Copying photos from laptop to iMac.
Went to Jasper Engines grand opening and saw a Ferrari and a very cool Shelby Cobra.
twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter - post... →
Going to a search engine marketing meeting.
Installed Leopard on my iMac.
@lessallan Where did you join?
Do search performance analysis on Datafax. Gotta speed this thing up.
Added the twitter app to my facebook account to keep status in sync.
The Amazon Honor System is interesting. http://tinyurl.com/2288rl [http://tinyurl.com/2288rl]
A Spoonful of Sugar →
Often times we are burdened with a manual, time consuming process of some sort. It could be cleaning some data, fixing a mistake we made, analyzing some information, or making a repetitive change throughout a code base. Sometimes the process is a one time deal and others are repeat offenders. In general, these are not enjoyable experiences, but I have found that they can be. How do these burdens...
Heading to BodyPump class for my torture session.
What are we full of?
Yesterday I commented that the leaders in the early church were full of the Holy Spirit, wisdom, and faith. After reading a little further in Acts this morning I see Stephen being full of grace and power as well. Where is grace in the lives of Christians today? Where is the power? A powerful witness for Christ seems to be missing in the American church. The early church was remarkable for its...
A Spoonful of Sugar http://tinyurl.com/2auj7y [http://tinyurl.com/2auj7y]
definr is a rails app too.
This is cool and crazy fast. http://definr.com/
HowtoUseRailsWithSubversion in Ruby on Rails →
Ran 3.6 miles (0:35:33). Beautiful fall day for a run. (www.traingo.com)
“Want is a conscious tendency towards a particular end. My wants take shape when...”
– Oswald Chambers on wants being affected by who we watch
Qualification for ministry
In the early church, the qualification for ministry was very simple yet profound. They looked for people who were full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom. Stephen, one of the first official ministering servants, was said to be “a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit.” What are people chosen for leadership in the church today full of?
Tip: Ruby on Rails Array to_sentence →
Ruby on Rails extends many of the Ruby types with interesting and often useful methods. The to_sentence method on arrays returns the values in an array separated by commas with a conjunction between the last two. There are two options. :connector provides the conjunction with ‘and’ being the default. :skip_last_comma is a boolean that determines whether or not the last comma is displayed and the...
Setting up an ActiveWarehouse data warehouse.
Installed Leopard with out any trouble so far. Let the crashes begin.
Analyzing some marketing email data. Response rates are low for legitimate stuff. Spammers probably probably contribute to that.
Rinse pasta after draining and it won’t stick. Who knew? Use warm water for use with sauces and colder water for pasta salad.
Usability Is For Novices →
It seems to me that software usability is focused primarily on the novice user. Great effort is made to make functionality easy to discover, understand and remember while making it hard to commit certain errors. This is not a bad thing but as a result many tasks become very inefficient. They require use of the mouse, response to confirmation dialogs, or extra steps for simplicity. Visual, easy to...
Grilling burgers before the big game.
EJS - Embedded JavaScript at Edward Benson →
Got a much needed hair cut and now heading out for some Mexican food.
Yard work, leaves, and such.
Reading up on ActiveWarehouse.
Tip: TextMate Overwrite Mode →
Overwrite mode does exactly what it sounds like. It overwrites existing text as you type. When in overwrite mode the caret is an underscore. Option-apple-O toggles overwrite mode on and off.
I don’t use overwrite as much as I should. I find myself using the delete key way to much. Often I will delete a bunch of text then type something in its place when overwrite mode would have eliminated the...
Ran 2.76 miles (0:27:21). Run off some of that pumpkin pie. (www.traingo.com)
@bwyrosdick I guess I came to my senses. :)
How about them Hogs? Woooooooooo Pig! Sooie!
Tip: Ruby Range Operators →
There are actually two Ruby range operators. The .. operator is inclusive of the end points and the … operator is exclusive of the high value end point.
a = [0, 1, 2, 3] a[0..-1] => [0, 1, 2, 3]
a[0...-1] => [0, 1, 2]
You would think this would be helpful for using a.length for the high end point but it doesn’t seem to matter.
a[0..a.length] => [0, 1, 2, 3]
a[0...a.length] => [0, 1,...
http://www.senduit.com/. Interesting site by the tumblr guys.
www.anthonycrumley.com is now operational. Strange how similar it looks to tumblr. I must have been separated from those guys at birth. :)
Headed to Clanton for Thanksgiving supper with my Mom and sisters.
Ran 2.76 miles (0:28:04). It was a little cool and windy but it felt good once I got warmed up. (www.traingo.com)
Writing a blog post about the Ruby CSV class.
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Ruby CSV →
Comma delimited files are still used for importing and exporting of data. The Ruby Standard Library includes a class for manipulating them. When a file is read each row is converted to an array with each element of the array being a string. Files are created by writing out arrays. Following is a marketing email example.
File of people to send an email...