BoomStartup Opening Social
Just getting back from the Boomstartup Opening social. A big thanks to John Pestana for hosting the first party of the BoomStartup program. I can imagine it’s a bit stressful to…
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OER Glue goes Boom
We’ve been building OER Glue since this last July and the result is a piece of technology that when people see it they have the same reaction they have during a magic show – HOLY…
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Babelphish is a Little Less Rotten
I’ve let Babelphish sit for a while. It did what it was supposed so why change it? Then Michael Jenik offered some changes that made it compatible with the latest Google Translate…
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Get jQuery Working With Ruby on Rails 3
I thought I had fixed everything and made ready for Rails 3 in my applications. Turns out I was wrong. My wife tells me I’m wrong all the time so I didn’t feel to bad. The first…
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Converting a jQuery Object into a String
I’m so used to everything having a ‘to\_s’ method that when it’s not there I feel like going out a kicking puppies. In jQuery you can always get the contents of a jQuery object…
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GearSnyper – Be As Broke As Me
I love to ride and I have a serious addiction to the gear that I use when I ride. It’s a nasty combination that frequently results in diarrhea of the wallet. Since I’ve yet to…
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In javascript string replace doesn’t do what you think it does
When doing a string replace in javascript if you try something like this: You’ll find that the result is: The replace method in javascript is not a global replace. Instead it does…
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I Have One Quadrillion Dollars
Zimbabwe was the first country to issue a 100 Trillion dollar bill. I have ten which makes me a Quadrillionaire: Each bill is about 15 x 7.5 centimeters so 112.5 sq centimeters…
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Exception Handling in Ruby – a Little Surprise
I’ve got a rake task that includes a section where I do something like this:
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apachectl stopped working after Mac OSX 10.6.5
I noticed today when I tried to restart apache on my Mac that it had stopped working and gave me this error: /usr/sbin/apachectl: line 82: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit…
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SQL2005 or higher is required for sp_expressmaint
I don’t have to work a lot with SQL Server these days, but this evening I noticed that the maintenance tasks on one of my servers was not running. I went to the command line to…
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Virtual Host Configuration for WordPress on my Mac
I mainly post this so I don’t forget, but someone else might find it useful. I always forget how to configuration the virtual host on my local Apache so that WordPress will run…
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Shoulda used RSpec
I’ve been updating the muck gems to work with Rails 3. The change is significant and painful but in a good way. For the most part the change consists of deleting all the code you…
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Uploadify onComplete Wouldn’t Fire Until I Swore – A Lot
I’ve been trying to get Uploadify to work inside my uploader gem . Things went pretty well until I combined that with the muck-contents gem and tried to do multiple file uploads…
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Cycling is for Old Guys
I rode out to Porcupine this morning. I spent the first half the ride cussing at my Polar CS600 since it ‘couldn’t find the sensors’ and the screen kept going out. You’d think…
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Why Do We Eat This Crap?
There’s an article on the front page of KSL today that examines why we crave the stuff that’s bad for us. Most people feel that they are overweight because they eat to much and…
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Polar CS600 Error 169
I have a Polar CS600 that I use to monitor my rides. I love it except for when it comes time to change the battery. This seemingly simple exercise is much harder than it should…
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I Spent My Day With Hot, Young Girls
Well, at the first of the day they were cold young girls then we went to Bear Lake and it was pretty hot. My wife is girl’s camp director which means she gets to spend 6 months…
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ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Got error 139 from storage engine
I ran into a ‘fun’ error with an application I’ve been working on. Everything was running fine and then one day hoptoad started filling up with exceptions like this: I hate errors…
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jQuery Ajax requests are ‘html’ not ‘js’
I like jQuery. I use it in all my Rails projects these days. One thing I’ve struggled with for the longest time is that for some reason all my jQuery ajax requests come through as…