I keep track of a couple of servers that we use for The Plan Collection. We have three Dell servers and each one of them has a DRAC 4 card which is usually a very helpful piece of hardware that let’s me manage the machine remotely. All of a sudden one of the cards quit…
Ruby made me fatter so I had to do something
For years I have relied soley on typing to keep me in shape. Most of the frameworks I have used managed to help me keep the pounds off. They required plenty of code and my fingers were left in great condition. Then I found Ruby on Rails and the pounds started to come on. I…
asp.net is fun again
I finally worked through most of the challenges I was faced with and I like asp.net again. It is interesting to program in several environments. I do a lot of Ruby on Rails these days and I love it. However, I have other applications that are written in ASP.Net. I have written quite a bit…
xbox
I should be writing more but I bought and xbox 360. Stupid thing. I and my wife played Zuma till 1 am last night. I wish fun stuff wasn’t so addicting. I have the audio hooked into my reciever with 6.1 surround. It is something to hear. I promise myself to write more code soon…
The Plan Collection
I have spent the past few weeks working on two projects. One is brand new and very exciting – houseplans.info. I developed that site in Ruby on Rails and it uses mysql on the backend. That project took me about four weeks working a few hours in the evenings. It is a joy to work…
Not because I want to
For a long time now I have been trying to figure out how to update The Plan Collection to an open source platform. I find myself updating it to ASP.Net instead. ASP.Net is ok to work with. I think Ruby on Rails is better. By better I mean simplier. ASP.Net has more stuff. It comes…
I hate RadRails
As per my last post I am loving Ruby on Rails. The biggest drawback to the framwork is my quest to find the right editor. I have actually been using Dreamweaver when I write code on Windows. It makes me feel like a lesser programmer for some reason, but it works great. There is a…
Joining the Rails bandwagon
I have worked in numerous roles as a programmer. My lot has been everything from low level USB firmware to Visual Test to ASP and then ASP.Net. Years ago, when I first saw ASP.Net I thought that I had found the best web framework in the world. I am working on a PhD (here and…
I get tired after I eat
Now I know why. I knew that it was logical to sleep after lunch.
Things that go boom
When I was a boy scout ( a long time ago) someone tried to heat a can of beany weenies in the fire. In the infinite wisdom of a 13 year old they didn’t crack the lid. One explosion and a rain of beanie weenies later we were all ok. At another camp someone threw…