February 2008
52 posts
Reading up on the acts_as_solr plugin.
Ran (0:20:00). Round and round the indoor track at Gold’s. (www.traingo.com)
Yugma : Free Web Conferencing, Online Meetings,... →
So far the Adium/Skype tag team is kicking iChat’s butt.
A sink hole swallowed one of the roads in my neighborhood.
Why can’t iChat video work as well as Skype video.
POI Ruby Bindings →
RAA - parseexcel →
RubyForge: spreadsheet: Project Info →
We Heart Code » Reading An Excel File With Ruby →
FreshPorts -- textproc/ruby-spreadsheet-excel →
HowToExportToExcel in Ruby on Rails →
Having to install xcode 3 to upgrade hpricot on Leopard. 1.1 Gig download. Arrggg.
ParseExcel ruby gem has some serious memory issues.
My wife’s friend broke her camera. We are getting her a new one for free. WorldPoints rewards FTW!! Of course the points cost $22,900. :)
YM4R →
Rails model associations are as helpful in design as they are in implementation. A good notation saves the mind a lot of work.
Whoops!! “Tip: Rails Default Data Migrations” correction http://blog.commonthread.com
Tasty Planner - Create, Plan and Share Recipes,... →
Tip: Rails Default Data Migrations →
Data migrations for default values can be messy. When creating default data, migrations can get lengthy and cluttered with…well…data. Down the road they can cause problems when the model they depend on has been removed. The clutter issue can be resolved with Fixtures.create_fixtures and a YAML file containing the default data. The deleted model issue can be resolved by defining the model in the...
Tip: Rails Default Data Migrations http://blog.commonthread.com
Browsing through some rails recipes.
Sitting on the deck and enjoying the weather.
Yikes!! I think I got a touch of food poisoning from P. F. Chang’s.
Weird google talk error. Jabber Error: <user>@gmail.com: Too many stanzas sent per day.
Restarted iChat and cannot to connect to google talk at all now.
My google talk does not work inside of gmail either. Weird.
Favorite snack…cheese roll up…tortilla and shredded cheese on plate in microwave for 25 sec…roll up…eat with salsa…ummm good.
Just put out corn for the deer…we had a four point and an eight point last night. We have six does and two bucks.
Working on an ASP.NET app and realizing how much easier it is to get things done in Rails.
With SEM it’s easy to chase rabbits like click thrus, conversion rate, and cost per click but the bottom line is max conversions per budget.
Digging into how Rails templates and haml work under the covers…interesting stuff.
We’re all eating lunch at Big Mountian Coffee…come join us.
Catching up on emails, blogs, tweets and such…
Data imports are always much more difficult than they appear.
Learning to enjoy the taste of coffee. It has taken me about 30 years to get there though.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Hearts have a bad peanut butter to chocolate ratio, too much peanut butter.
Search engine optimization is a veeerrrryyy slow process. Google and Yahoo will take about 2.5 years to index a site with 30,000 pages.
jsunittest →
Hawler, the Ruby crawler (spoofed.org) →
Kay made brownies so we had warm brownies and vanilla ice cream for desert. Yuummm.
Using a 3x15 matrix to work through a complex jaml parsing scenario. It has been a long time since I needed to use this technique.
Been dreaming of Javascript frameworks all afternoon…
ooVoo - Free Video Conferencing and Video... →
Skitch.com > drnic > JavaScript Project Generator →
Arrrggg…hurt my back playing racquetball this morning…guess I’m just getting old.
Have tamed the Rhino and am now trying to teach him a few tricks.
Trying to tame the Rhino.
scripting: Project Home Page →
Ideas are nice but implementations are better.