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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Adding a mongrel instance to a Slicehost Rails app
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Photo by caribbean
Let’s say you have a Ruby on Rails website hosted at Slicehost. Let’s also say you used the snazzy deprec instructions to install said web site. And finally, let’s say said website is receiving increased traffic. Well, you may very well need to add [...]
Make sure to properly scope your Ruby mixins
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Photo by AMagill
Early on in writing Scrawlers I realized I needed to improve the manner in which we calculated our bestseller list. In true Agile(tm) form, I had built the site to dynamically calculate the bestsellers at the given moment a reader queried. Not so bad with [...]
Daughter
Friday, August 24th, 2007
If you saw the movie Knocked Up, you may have noticed this song toward the end. It’s called “Daughter,” and it’s cover of a Peter Blegvad tune, played by Loudon Wainwright III.
A One and a Two
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
My girls had quite a photo shoot the other day. Here they look pretty snugly.
Costco.com has problems
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Hmmm… For some reason I didn’t even know we had Costco in Minnesota. I stopped over at costco.com to find a location, since I figured, well, there must be a Costco up here after all.
Entered my zip code and hit return.
search results You must enter at least one [...]
Apple ain’t all that all the time
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
I’m on a quest to build an ergonomic Valhalla in my workspace. It’s a grueling, tireless quest for a freelancer on a budget. Herman Miller just ain’t in the cards. But Office Max and IKEA are, as long as I focus on what I really need to be comfortable.
A big step forward [...]
L’anniversaire
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Photo by FredoAlvarez
This blog’s been around for three years. Yay bjhess blog!
In that time the blog has morphed from my personal half-baked musings on sports and politics to numerous posts linking to interesting stuff I’ve read on the ‘Net to pictures of my family to discussion on how [...]
Ignoring English articles with regular expressions
Monday, August 20th, 2007
During some freelance work, we had a special requirement that I imagine a lot of people run into. A list of items returned from the database needed to be sorted by name while ignoring English articles: “a,” “an,” and “the.” Though I hate them with a passion, I knew regular expressions were the [...]