So my life isn’t especially exciting these days except that I am taking the next couple of weeks off work. It isn’t my fault really. The University will only let you carry over so many days and because I don’t take very much time off it all built up and now I am home. That…
It’s Like Pulling Teeth
Aubrey lost a tooth a couple of weeks ago. It was loose. We were eating dinner. She wanted an apple. I gave it to her. She took one bite and disappeared into the bathroom. We figured – you know, natured called. She didn’t come back. Callie found her crying. The first bite into the apple…
In Meetings at the Hewlett Foundation
I like the title of the post because it almost sounds like I am important (which I am not). I am sitting in a meeting at the Hewlett Foundation. A year and some months ago I was at the Mellon Foundation. These meetings are interesting because they are filled with very intelligent people. These individuals…
Sorry to Anyone that has Been Making Comments
I am usually very good about approving comments – I don’t get that many so it isn’t hard. However, for some reason I haven’t been getting emails when I get a comment so today when I logged in there were several in the queue. Anyway, I’ll watch a little closer in the future.
Cycling Pack Mentality
Cycling is an interesting individual sport that requires teams. That seems like a paradox, whenever you are riding you are alone. There is no one to pass the ball to. There are no other rowers. Its just you and the bike and you personally have to make all the decisions. It is like a chess…
Quick Note: use rake to install Rails 2.0
I am adding this so I don’t forget. You can install Rails 2.0 using this: rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_2-0-1 Then if you want to keep up the with the latest edge version you can just do the standard: rake rails:freeze:edge
Configure your Free Facebook Joyent Accelerator for Capistrano
Right now Joyent is giving away free Accelerator accounts to Facebook developers. I love free stuff so this is so cool I could just cry. Free hosting with one of the premier Ruby on Rails hosts. I normally have to eat bags of M&Ms to be this happy. Not all is roses. There is a…
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…
Tips to Prevent Identity Theft
About a year ago my account’s office was broken into. The only thing the thieves took were the hard drives from the computers. That is scary for someone like me because the message is clear. These guys are smart enough to know that the value of all the personal information stored on those drives is…