A Couch
This is a couch:
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Mountain West Ruby Conference
I’ve been to a good number of conferences over the years. A lot of them cost a lot of money. If you are a geek and a ruby lover (who isn’t?) then the best event you’ll ever attend…
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The Pro Bikers Don’t do This
I keep my bike on the trainer in my office during the winter. My son found a new use for my Madone: . It’s just a guess but I bet the pros don’t use sippy cups.
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Customizing the email sent by PasswordRecovery in ASP.Net
I spend most of my time working with Ruby on Rails these days. However, I still do .Net programming mainly for ThePlanCollection.com. Our password recovery system has been a bit…
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Quick Tip for working with Paypal and ActiveMerchant in your Rails Application
Working with Paypal can be a bit difficult not because of the code required, but rather because their website can be a hassle to navigation. I already have ActiveMerchant…
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Uninspired
The drought of blog posts lately might reflect life in Cache Valley during the winter. The inversions in the valley trap the pollution so in addition to short days and long nights…
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House plans that look good in the snow
It’s snowing in Logan again and so in my current tradition of posting house plans that I would build if the economy didn’t suck and if I had lots of money I am submitting to you…
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A Very Sexy Madone
Lance ‘s return to cycling is something that I am sure many people are watching with anticipation and curiosity. He is one of the greatest if not the greatest cyclist of all time…
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Hierarchies, trees, jQuery, Prototype, script.aculo.us and acts_as_nested_set
‘single\_message’ should normally be set to false. I added it in just in case I needed to render a single message for an ajax call. If you aren’t rendering an entire tree and thus…
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Snow and Rain
I just manged to get the kids in bed. It’s 9:00pm. I started at 6:30. I’m sitting here watching the rain letting my brain idle for a few moments until I get back into write code…
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I Got Older
I turned 34 yesterday. I assume you’ll ask why I didn’t write this yesterday and my response is it was my birthday why the hell should I have to do anymore work than just get out…
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Shoulda Craps out on Rails 2.2.2
I tried the latest shoulda on luvfoo a while back and it died on the internationalization stuff so we gave up. Turns out that with the new internationalization in Rails 2.2.2…
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The binding argument of #concat is no longer needed
If you upgrade to Rails 2.2.2 and start getting “The binding argument of #concat is no longer needed” then wherever you do something like this:
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New Diet
I now weigh 165lbs which means I’ve lost 5lbs. The secret to my diet success is what I like to think of as the consultant stress plan. If you want to loose weight I highly…
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So I am a Big Geek
I had to reboot the server in my office closet this evening. That’s when I realized that I am a really big nerd. I have a server in my closet with RAID 5 to backup the other…
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Maybe I Should be a Computer Tech
My wife’s computer finally died. I mean really died. For about ten minutes I could push the power button and it would just barely turn on and then it would immediately shut down…