Trek Madone Lust
My wife will kill me I am sure, but this morning I dropped by the bike shop. I had a few minutes and if I go in the morning I can work with the shop manager which is always a…
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Plugin Loading for Ruby on Rails has Changed.
I am tired of recreating the login system for Rails for each new project so using the RESTful Rails Authentication Tutorial I created a template project that I can use to create…
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Recreational Cyclists Should Not Ride Like the Pros
Well sort of. The pros have great techniques. They are fun to watch. You want legs like then and their bikes are awesome. You can learn about how to climb hills and how to sprint…
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How Mortgages and Housing Hurt the Economy
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…
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Our Tax Date
Tonight was the first time since September that I and Callie have been alone, together, outside of the house. We were able to spend 15 minutes eating a Quiznos sub in a gas…
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Trek Project One Update
I just got a notification about the status of Trek’s Project One. Even if there are a few kinks left to work out and even though the pricing isn’t on the site just yet I am…
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Utah Flat Tax
So the follow on to the Tax date is the fact that we paid taxes this evening. This year Utah citizens have the option of either a flat tax rate of 5.35% or the standard 7% rate…
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Project One Goes Live With the New Madones
Just in time for riding season Trek has decided to turn on Project One. I am not sure if that means that they are planning on fulfilling those orders before the end of summer or…
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Big Companies Using Ruby on Rails
I am frequently asked how reliable/scalable is Ruby on Rails? I usually tell people about Twitteror more recently point them to this article about the Friend’s For Sale Facebook…
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The Internet Currency
A long time ago people figured out that if you used coins for trading instead of chickens you could build up a complex economy. The coins usually consisted of something precious…
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Automatically Geotag Photos
I know that adding GPS to cameras will add cost to the unit but it seems like the perfect marriage. With the GPS data embedded inside the exif data you won’t have to tag your…
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A Killer iPhone App
I am not great at meeting people especially at conferences. However, the biggest reason to attend a conference is to meet people. (If you think you are paying $1500 to learn about…
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Journal Writing Sucks, Blogging is Cool
The LDS cultural has encouraged personal history and journal writing since its inception. Ever since then the vast majority of the members have ignored this council and the…
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My Wife the Blog Stalker
I stay up very late writing code sometimes. There are weeks when I go to bed at 2 or 3 am. Actually, it isn’t so much go to bed as pass out. My wife is great and supportive. She…
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Starting Up
I am not a serious entrepreneur, but I have started up a few companies over the years. One I sold. One we folded and I still run one – ThePlanCollection.com. I ran across this…
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Family Search API
If these posts don’t make sense sorry. They are for my notes. API is based on REST. A lot of data is sensitive so they use SSL to secure data transfer. Prefer XML elements over…
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Family Search Write
We’re back from lunch. I had a great chat with Alan Braverman the CTO & founder of Geni. They are doing some cool things by connecting living people with their families and to the…
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Ruby fs-api
I am in the Ruby-fs API presentation now. Funding for the library came from USFamilyTree.com. It is REST based. Data model is: Person Person has many Assertions Assertion has one…
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Family Tree Read
What do we read out of family search? Person Information Search Match Authorities Data – places LDS Ordinance Information Objects available in the new FamilySearch Person Search…
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Family Search Conference
I am at the FamilySearch conference at BYU today which means that I had to get up at 5:30 this morning which is one my least favorite things in the world. Luckily caffeine is my…