Monthly Archives: April 2008

Five Rails tips

Ryan Bates, of the excellent Railscasts, is running a contest to generate a bevy of Rails tips on the web. (And look, Harvest is part of the grand prize package. W00T!)

Here’s my contribution:

Handy test helper to check your layout:

Do you have any layout variability served up in your controllers? Maybe you’re doing [...]

Virtual Teamwork or You Can Go Home Again

Over the past year I have entered into a new world of working from home as part of a “virtual team.” This team situation carries with it most of the issues of a typical team as well as its own, unique hurdles. Working in a home office adds even more particulars.

In less than [...]

Memetape 2

Push through the afternoon, folks. Five o’clock is just around the bend.

Kauffman Stadium, day 2

Dashing off another quick batch of pictures from the Good Guys disappointing loss at The K.

As expected, Francisco Liriano’s return was a bit rocky.

Hot chocolate and baseball, two great tastes…well, during playoff baseball.

Hard to tell, but the sun did come out for moments today. One particularly fun moment was when the sun came out [...]

Cold Kauffman Stadium

Some lighter fare. Phone pictures from 37 degree Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium.

Our starting seats:

Second seats with The Dad:

Particularly obnoxious crowd (both Twins and KC fans). Particularly obnoxiously run jersey promotion. 20k jerseys, 1.5k people in front of us at Gate D. Out of jerseys before we arrive at the gate. Yay.

Great stadium (under [...]