I’m participating in the 2010 Walk for Life this month to support Pregnancy Support Services of Wake Forest. The walk is a family-friendly event that raises awareness and funding for the center. The cool thing is that you don’t need to walk or even live in Wake Forest to support … Continue reading
A $25 check from Federal showed up in the mail yesterday. That more than covers the cost of a new box. It’s always nice when a company makes things right for their customers. I intend to continue buying their products since I know they’ll take care of me. Time Warner … Continue reading
I was enjoying an IDPA match at the Durham County Wildlife Club this past Tuesday evening and, aside from it being pretty cold, I had a great time. Except at the end of the fourth stage. I was almost through my first mag when I experienced a failure-to-fire. The round … Continue reading
“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.” — Stephen Jay Gould
Dirty attributes were recently added to Rails and they’re quite useful. However, I ran into a problem where a dirty date/time attribute was losing its time zone information after a save. I was doing a comparison between two dates in a before_update callback like so: The started_at date was coming … Continue reading
“The disease of modern character is specialization…The specialist system fails from a personal point of view because a person who can do only one thing can do virtually nothing for himself.” — Wendell Berry
Compiling Apache and PHP from scratch in DSO mode is a nightmare Slicehost’s ability to restore a server image from a backup is incredibly useful I’m glad I’m a developer and not a sys admin That is all.
I recently upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.9.1 and I’m very pleased with the results. The upgrade itself was very straightforward. It was just a matter of replacing the correct files in my project. I have my project checked into GitHub so I was able to immediately see what had … Continue reading
If you’ve ever performed a fresh install of Ubuntu, you’ve probably noticed that the delete/backspace key doesn’t work correctly in nano. This is frustrating, but easy enough to fix. This problem also occurs quite frequently for me when logging into a remote server. For example, a default Slicehost instance usually … Continue reading
Several of my Rails projects surface a RESTful API. I use integration tests to verify that the API calls work as expected. I also version my API calls so I can easily adapt the API to new circumstances while maintaining backwards compatibility. To move to a new API version, I … Continue reading