So I have been trying to figure out Google Base for the last week so that I can send all the house plans from The Plan Collection into the Google product feed. Getting your products into their feed isn’t that hard, but being a programmer and a masochist (they are the same thing you know)…
Category: Programming
Setting up ZenTest and Red Green
I can’t take credit for any of these instructions. Dave South from the Logan Ruby group sent these out in an email. I am posting them so that I can find them later on. Install ZenTest: sudo gem install ZenTest</pre> Then install RedGreen sudo gem install redgreen</pre> Go to your rails project directory and create…
Stupid Error That I will Blame on Lack of Sleep
So if you are ever working oh so hard on a ruby on rails application and all of a sudden your application stops working and you have no idea why because the error looks like this: /!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Mon Nov 12 17:27:15 -0700 2007 Status: 500 Internal Server Error wrong number of arguments (1…
Working on Second Facebook Application
It is top secret, but I am working on another Facebook application. This time I am using Ruby On Rails since I don’t have to deal with legacy issues. I’ll be interested to see if there is a large performance difference. I’ll post a link when the application is ready. This time it will be…
iPhone App
I have an iPhone. It is an awesome little toy. I couldn’t just own one. I need a reason to play with it so I wrote an application. igag.us It lets you gather your favorite news sources – rss/atom under one aggregation. Thus it is easy for me to gather up a number of cycling…
SQL Server 2005 Express error: 40
I ran into this error while trying to run some scripts on my SQL Server 2005 Express Database: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections….
Rails Conference Day One
We flew into Portland last night so that we would be ready bright and early this morning. I hate waking up at 6:30 am to go to a conference. We are programmers when will they realize that the conference should start at 11 and then run late into the night. Maybe even start at 3…
Something Scrumdidilyumptious
Just short of a year ago I hacked together a project that we loving called scrumdidilyumptio.us. I and Wiley managed to finish it at about 2 in the morning in a hotel in NY during the Mellon meeting. (I actually worked on it during the meeting which resulted in terrible embarsement when my system speaker…
PPH – Profanity per Hour
I have been working on getting some CSS to work for a new design for The Plan Collection. The payoff is terribly small. I am really starting to hate CSS and the new “tableless” world of web design. I have spent and enourmous amount of time working around bugs in browsers and find new ways…
This shouldn’t be so @#!&! hard
So as is typical in Utah I moved into my house with an unfinished basement and now to “save money” I am finishing it myself. That’s a bit of an overstatement. I am actually watching other people, mainly my brother-in-law, finish it. I am amazed at how much time a little experience can save. Sure…