If you write code you hate Internet Explorer. You get everything just right in Chrome, Firefox, Safari – any other browser really and then everything falls apart in Internet Explorer. We use CORS in some of the work with do at Open Tapestry. It works really well for letting the client figure out which service…
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Script iterm2 to Save a Bit of Time.
I don’t have to reboot my Mac very often but when I do it feels like spend forever getting things setup so that I can start development. I finally got sick of all the hassle and found that I could just create an Apple Script and save it as an Application. Now starting up iterm…
Upgrade to MySQL 5.5.12 and now MySQL won’t start
I messed up my local install of MySQL (it’s a long story that involves me almost throwing a punch to my 30” monitor). I finally gave up, deleted everything MySQL related according to these notes and then I used homebrew to do a clean install. After the install I started getting this error: ERROR 2002…
Exception Handling in Ruby – a Little Surprise
I’ve got a rake task that includes a section where I do something like this: begin # Do some things rescue => ex puts “Error: #{ex}” end </pre> I know that typically you want to be specific about the errors that you catch, but in this case I just want to move on. The things…
Textmate RSpec Bundle Error
After installing the Textmate RSpec bundle I started getting this error: /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/builder.rb:86:in `blank_slate_method_added’: stack level too deep (SystemStackError) from /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/builder.rb:86:in `blank_slate_method_added’ from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/builder-2.1.2/lib/blankslate.rb:84:in `method_added’ from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/builder-2.1.2/lib/blankslate.rb:104 from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’ from /Users/jbasdf/projects/red/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/basic_object.rb:21 from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’ … 32 levels… from /Users/jbasdf/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/RSpec.tmbundle/Support/lib/spec/../spec/mate/runner.rb:36:in `chdir’ from /Users/jbasdf/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/RSpec.tmbundle/Support/lib/spec/../spec/mate/runner.rb:36:in `run’ from /Users/jbasdf/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/RSpec.tmbundle/Support/lib/spec/../spec/mate/runner.rb:24:in `run_focussed’…
Userfly Ruined My Weekend – “jQuery(“form.ajax”).ajaxForm is not a function”
I’ve been a big fan of Userfly because they make usability testing easy. Their tool is really quite amazing. However, this last weekend and into today I’ve become less of a fan. After a late night deploy last week on a site I’ve been working on I noticed that none of my javascript worked. Lucky…
How New Carpet and Rattlesnake turned me into a Consultant or What the Hell Happened?
I was sure I would never become a consultant. The stress is high. You sell your time. You don’t get time off. You don’t get sick leave. Just try to get health insurance. Retirement? Ha. In spite of all that I am a consultant and I like it. Late summer 2008 the powers that be…
How New Carpet and Rattlesnake turned me into a Consultant or What the Hell Happened?
I was sure I would never become a consultant. The stress is high. You sell your time. You don’t get time off. You don’t get sick leave. Just try to get health insurance. Retirement? Ha. In spite of all that I am a consultant and I like it. Late summer 2008 the powers that be…
How New Carpet and Rattlesnake turned me into a Consultant or What the Hell Happened?
I was sure I would never become a consultant. The stress is high. You sell your time. You don’t get time off. You don’t get sick leave. Just try to get health insurance. Retirement? Ha. In spite of all that I am a consultant and I like it. Late summer 2008 the powers that be…
How New Carpet and Rattlesnake turned me into a Consultant or What the Hell Happened?
I was sure I would never become a consultant. The stress is high. You sell your time. You don’t get time off. You don’t get sick leave. Just try to get health insurance. Retirement? Ha. In spite of all that I am a consultant and I like it. Late summer 2008 the powers that be…