Here’s a video to celebrate the new year. This is an imitation of the classic Abbott and Costello routine. My brother and I have been doing it for over a decade now. Here’s a version from 4 years ago at the NCHE conference in North Carolina. Enjoy!
MultiRails is a plugin that makes it easy to test Rails applications against multiple versions of Rails. Built by the cool guys at this place (mainly Rob Sanheim), MultiRails version 0.0.3 has just been released. Check it out.
The current project I’m on requires us to give administrators the ability to modify a tree of models built using acts_as_tree (now a plugin as of Rails 2.0). The acts_as_tree plugin is simple and elegant, but I’ve struggled to find a pre-built UI framework for acts_as_tree that is equally compelling. … Continue reading
I attended the 2007 National Conference on Christian Apologetics in Charlotte, North Carolina this past weekend. One thing (among many) that I realized while participating was that I needed a copy of the Bible on my MacBook. I brought my MB for note taking since my handwriting is woefully slow, … Continue reading
I haven’t gotten up at 5 AM in a long time, but today I did and, after a 2.5 hour drive from Raleigh to Charlotte, am now at RubyConf. Here are some pics from the opening session:
This seems like a very good idea.
There are few things I hate worse then trying to call a business, getting put on hold, and then having to listen to ads for that business while I’m on hold. A happy customer I am not.
Watch the inimitable David Pogue for a nice demo. OLPC’s $100 laptop debuts in the U.S. during a two-week window in November. It’s a buy one, get one deal. $400 sends one laptop to a poor kid in a third world country, and one laptop to you. Am I getting … Continue reading
As a Christian who is socially conservative, fiscally libertarian, and non-interventionist, I’m having a very difficult time imagining myself actually voting for any of the current Republican Presidential candidates. I’m just hearing the same old thing from all of them. All except one, who happens to be the only guy … Continue reading