Lately I’ve gotten re-interested in the Ruby On Rails framework. It’s not only because of it’s sort of… “new hotness” that’s out there on the net, but it’s got a lot of neat technologies that are being used. Also this is all close enough to the work on webapps that I’m used to doing, but …
Went to the Fraser Valley Ruby on Rails meetup tonight. Organized by a guy who now works under one of my ex-bosses from back in the dot com days, basically a group of geeks interested in the Ruby on Rails framework who get together and geek out. I’ve only been to two meetings so far, …
Today I went to my first Vancouver Ruby Camp, a set of talks by people in the local Ruby and Ruby on Rails community. Translation for non-techies out there… a complete geek-fest! It was great 🙂 Honestly my RoR experience is near nil, and my Ruby experience consists of reading a book on the train …
Darn you Darren, first not coming out this week and then pointing me to clonesumating as a possible drop in replacement for the aging P2P. Note to self so I don’t forget about this link….
I’m going crazy here, my brain apparently fried from the weekend or the water or something, looking for some perl assistance from my perl-knowledgeable buds (you know who you are… 🙂 I’m creating a menu system and converting entries in a database into a perl data structure that I can then parse to create an …
Interesting way of determining how good a programmer is on Imran’s blog, called the FizzBuzz. I took it to make sure I wasn’t a crappy comp-sci grad who couldn’t program and discovered happily I could. Took just under four minutes to complete, though part of the extra time was I forgot how the ‘%’ operator …
I’m probably the last person in the world to discover this, but I finally figured out something useful for the Mozilla/Firefox “view page info” property box available from the context menu. I’ve seen this before of course, even clicked it a few times, mostly accidently. Basically it displays, information about the page. Media type, links, …
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Well it looks like my latest consulting project is wrapped up. Still one more tiny bit of functionality waiting to go, but I’m waiting on them for the info on how to do it. Really just a matter of “where do the files get uploaded”. It’s a great relief too, I was starting to think …
For the last few years I’ve done contract programming work. Sometimes on the side, and sometimes as my full time job. Lately I’ve had some projects that I feel I’ve gotten… lets just say the short end of the stick. This seems to happen when I’m the subcontractor and put in an hourly quote, and …
I have a bit of code that is using the excellent free XUpload progress bar. I’ve modified it a bit for my current project, and am having some performance issues due to some javascript I added. What happens is the main <FORM> tag has an onSubmit() action of calling a StartUpload() function. I’ve added code …