Monthly Archives: May 2007

vi has arrived

Jeff A. sent me a link for Vi written in Javascript. How flipping great is that. I am already envisioning gmail with this as the editor…just need to jam that in greasemonkey and attach it to the textarea. Ho ho, … Continue reading

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Vacation

I am on vacation this week. And I have christened it “The week of getting stuff done”. Stuff I should have been doing all along, but neglected. Yesterday was “Move your crap to the other bedroom day”. That was easy, … Continue reading

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Just read programming.reddit.com

So much better than the main page. I hate to keep repeating something that everyone knows is true, but reddit sucks now. It’s overrun with morons and pic posters. programming.reddit.com is still pretty decent however. Read that instead.

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Rails and menu state

Has anyone else done anything to save UI state in a Rails app? If so, I’d like to know what you did. I ended up making a helper method that jams stuff in the session using the Ajax.Request stuff from … Continue reading

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Script.aculo.us and Safari

I am not sure if it’s because script.aculo.us developers use Safari, or because it’s javascript complier is better, but the script.aculo.us Effects run much smoother on Safari than they do on Firefox. I do most of my work on Linux, … Continue reading

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This could explain things

I was far more interested to see that eHarmony uses Hibernate and Struts than I was at seeing what women a search would turn up.

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GSoc and Ruby

Not trying to link jack, but in case you missed it: O’Reilly Ruby is going to try to coordinate updates from the Google Summer of Code as it relates to Ruby this year.

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Paddling

Bob, Sun and I went out to do some paddling today. We hit the Yellow Breaches. Put in at the intersection near White Rock Acres and took out below Williams Grove park. We had a great time, save for one … Continue reading

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New Camera

About a week ago I picked up a new digital camera. Actually, I picked up my *first* digital camera. I had never owned one before. For a geek, I have less toys than most. However camera prices have come down, … Continue reading

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Cooking for one

Since I live alone, and have for many years, I have figured out some great recipes when cooking for one. This is just my latest. 1. Cut up a shitload of vegetables 2. Put in a pan with oil 3. … Continue reading

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