After upgrading to Rails 2.3.2 I started getting this error: Mysql::Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘*) It turns out that the ‘count’ method is broken for ‘has_many through association collection with named scope’. Here’s…
Month: March 2009
First ride of the season
I finally managed to get out and ride today. That is significant because it’s the first time I’ve been outside on a bike since August 22, 2008 – the day I ran over a rattlesnake and trashed my knee. So yea for me. Originally, I wasn’t going to go out and ride. I was going…
Twitter – The New Borg
I’m not a twitter power user but people frequently ask me what it is and why would I use it. I used to tell them it was a ‘micro-blogging’ service. Of course that explanation assumes that the person asking the question knows what a blog is and why they would need a smaller version of…
FamilySearch conference
I’m at the FamilySearch conference today. Right now Phil Windely is talking about open data and the related technical formats – REST, Json, RDF, and Microformats. I think this is good information for this crowd since sharing data is key to genealogy research. For years the methods of sharing data and integrating systems has been…
Super Cheese
This is the most impressive cheese ever: Each serving has 1176 calories with 11 servings per container which means this thing has 12,936 calories.
A Couch
This is a couch:
Joel With Coffee
Don’t let him fool ya. Here’s Joel with a cup of coffee at the last OCW conference: Everyone needs a little pick me up.
Black Cherry Vanilla Coke
I don’t drink a lot of soda so when I do drink it it has to be good. A couple of years ago Coke came out with a flavor that I grew to love – Black Cherry Vanilla. I bought a couple of 12 packs and kept them in the basement. I drank the last…
My Macbook Pro, the Single Link DVI cable and the Not so Genius Apple Bar
I and Callie took the kids to Salt Lake a while back so they could go to the Children’s Museum at the Gateway. They had a great time. At the end of the day we wandered around the area a bit and since there is an Apple store I dropped in to see if they…