Web Standards Project
I came across this funny (to me at least) ad over at The Noodle Incident. And if you’re still using IE: Save my coworkers and I some work and get something standards compliant. Opera or Firefox. Mozilla or Lynx. Just not IE. For the love of God, not IE.
RoR Web Hosting
My web host, perfect though they may be, has no plans to support Ruby on Rails. Bummer. Anybody who can point me to a free site that will let me host RoR apps I build, please leave a comment. If it’s a pay service, it needs the following to be useful for me: cost less [...]
Sheep and Moose on Rails
I’m going to do an experiment tonight. Ruby on Rails has really nice pluralization support. For example, recipes are stored in the database table recipes, but are manipulated (for the most part) by saying Recipe.something. I wonder how well this works on things like sheep and moose, whose plurals are exactly the same. Stay tuned [...]
Organizing Files on Unix by Date
via ONLamp.com This could work very well under Tiger. A smart folder for each day in your home directory inside folders for each month and year would be very helpful. Spotlight, however, makes organizing your files in such a way almost obsolete.
I Hate Ruby on Rails
I hate it. I really do. Even the little bit I’ve done in it has completely spoiled me. Coding in RoR is like talking to a intelligent, beautiful woman. Coding in PHP is like talking to a pretty but stupid girl. Coding in ASP.NET is like trying to explain quantum mechanics to a miserable failure. [...]
Question Regarding MySQL and Ruby on Rails for Mac
I’ve just started dabbling in Ruby on Rails using O’Reilly’s example Rolling with Ruby on Rails and I’m having trouble getting it to talk to the MySQL database I have on my Mac. I’m getting the following error: Mysql::Error in Recipe#index Access denied for user: ‘root@localhost’ (Using password: YES) Before you ask: Yes, I’m positive [...]
Civilization III Complete for Mac
It’s finally here. I’d be excited, except it’s taken three years to get caught up to PCs. Hopefully Brad will have Civ IV out in a reasonable period of time, with reasonable performance. It’s hard being a Mac user sometimes…
E-Books. Again.
Curling Up With a Good E-Book The iPod let users do one thing that E-Books probably won’t allow you to do: Make your own book. If I could download stuff from Safari and put it on my E-Book Reader, or export web pages to PDF, and the E-Book reader used standard formats (txt, rdf, and [...]
My Name is URL
Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! I’d have to agree. Well designed URLs give users context, let the user predict where they’re going to go, and let the user navigate from the address bar. They’re not difficult to implement, and provide a reinforcement for object oriented programming. So why not use them?
Playlist: NBC, Apple announced iTunes TV show deal
Playlist: NBC, Apple announced iTunes TV show deal NBC TV content available on iTunes includes Law & Order, The Office, Surface, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Monk, the Sci-Fi Channel’s production of Battlestar Galactica, and classics like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dragnet, Adam 12 and Knight Rider. One less reason [...]