Category Archives: Technical

Rails and Ext non-Ajax Signup Form with Password Confirmation

Posted on July 2, 2008 by method

This is, uh, a technical post. Probably there are others who want to do the same somewhat senseless thing: use Ext to do form validation while keeping a boring non-Ajax post-and-response. The bottom line is that Ext favors doing it … Continue reading →

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Apple Cocoa Cavil

Posted on May 26, 2008 by method

I’m going to try to sound more like Andy Rooney1 up here on this blog. Also, how about I indicate when the boooring technical notes begin and end with technical and interesting. This is one of my favorite xkcd comics. … Continue reading →

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Example

Posted on May 25, 2008 by method

An instance of obsessive behavior: trying out various WordPress themes, tweaking the CSS to look right, making sure the code highlighting is the same color as my gvim theme. Perhaps for hours. This by way of giving myself permission to … Continue reading →

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Setup for Alexandria Development: Part II

Posted on December 19, 2007 by method

(…after too much grief today installing Mephisto and mucking with Apache virtualhosts; I’ll get Part I back from the ether eventually) Update: Done. Update: This is a post moved over from the short-lived Mephisto blog, and ported back in time. … Continue reading →

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Setup for Alexandria Development: Part I

Posted on December 19, 2007 by method

This is the first in a series of brain-dumps of my knowledge about Alexandria and related development issues. Be warned, the approach I will take in these posts will be to discuss boring and perhaps obvious details as they occur … Continue reading →

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What’s this?

Posted on April 26, 2007 by method

I just got this at the top of a search for “ruby rake” on Google. Ruby — Rake: 4 According to http://jimweirich.umlcoop.net/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby – More sources » The url under “More sources” goes here. All I can figure is that this … Continue reading →

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religion.

Posted on April 24, 2007 by method

12:00 PM me: Does [your company] use whitespace or tabs?

12:01 PM Ian: you mean spaces?

everyone uses spaces.

four spaces, in fact.

It’s Guido gospel. Continue reading →

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Using xsl to import a phpmyadmin xml file

Posted on April 15, 2007 by method

Yep, following the last post I have to explain what I just did for the LazyWeb1 . This is going to be boring and technical, folks. If you’re like me, you’ve exported a MySQL database as an xml file through … Continue reading →

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