Archive for March, 2007

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Syntax .. Smintax ..

Last week I was called upon to write some Perl - something I haven't done since last fall. It was funny how as I was working on it, it started to come back to me. So I thought it'd be fun to compare my favorite languages a little bit: Looks at how arrays are defined [...]

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Thursday, March 29th, 2007

New Laptop

My large beast of a 17 inch Sager laptop is now a desktop. I opened it 1.5 weeks ago to have the hinge snap out on me, a month after the 1 year warranty! doh! I'd been wanting to get a smaller laptop since I'm on the go so much, but was juts waiting for [...]

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Friday, March 16th, 2007

Optional Sidebars

For one of my projects, my layout includes optional sidebars on either side. I want to design this without tables.. so at first I thought something like this: PLAIN TEXT RUBY: <div id="leftside"> <%= render :partial => "left_#{@controller.action_name}" %> </div> <div id="rightside"> <%= render :partial => "right_#{@controller.action_name}" %> </div> SO for index page, it will [...]

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Friday, March 16th, 2007

No Ruby Vacation

Turns out, that not even ruby was relaxing enough for my 3 day vacation.. I didn't do much of anything on the computer. Just took a break. I spent some time outside, ordered a bike..did alot of swimming and had some fun.Now, I'm back and ready to tackle work again.

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Friday, March 9th, 2007

Ruby Weekend

As some people plan vacations, I'm planning a Ruby weekend. Today Friday, I'm going to get my day job projects worked on so I don't have to do any on the weekend, do any errands and other things today and clear the weekend! I will be working on a site for my mother's new Bakery/Coffeeshop! [...]

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