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Category: House Stuff

How Mortgages and Housing Hurt the Economy

Posted on March 20, 2008November 1, 2021

I had always assumed that the potential for default on risky mortgages was a problem, but I didn’t realize how far reaching it could become. Here is an article in the New York Times that explains how bad mortgages can have a dire effect on the global economy. In case you want more bad news…

Add Website Search Using ASP.Net and Lucene

Posted on March 10, 2008November 1, 2021

I have read a lot about Lucene over the years and finally managed to find an excuse to play with it. I used it to add a general search to ThePlanCollection.com. Here’s a detailed writeup including the code I used to implement search using Lucene on ASP.Net. Enjoy.

Kill Internet Explorer With CSS

Posted on February 27, 2008November 1, 2021

We got a call today at The Plan Collection that was interesting. A guy was trying to print out one of our pages. Each time he tried his browser would crash. At first I thought, “that is just nuts. Html can’t crash your browser.” Then Jake tried it and it crashed Internet Explorer. Then I…

A Favorite House Plan

Posted on January 15, 2008November 1, 2021

I am one of the owner’s of ThePlanCollection.com an online home plan publisher. When you write all the code that powers a site like that you become very familiar with the product. This is one of my favorite house plans of all time. It’s not huge, but it isn’t small either. I think the style…

The Plan Collection

Posted on June 14, 2006November 1, 2021

I have spent the past few weeks working on two projects. One is brand new and very exciting – houseplans.info. I developed that site in Ruby on Rails and it uses mysql on the backend. That project took me about four weeks working a few hours in the evenings. It is a joy to work…

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