This is my personal blog where I like to blog about technology and other interesting stuff in life.
I am current working on a project and needed a date picker. I found a pretty decent one called CalendarDateSelect that integrates very nice with Ruby on Rails. It comes with a few themes. All you have to do is include the corresponding style sheet. It is pretty easy to customize […]
In Leopard, Apple introduced a new backup solution that is pretty sweet. It is called time machine. It allows you to go to any folder in any point in time. It makes backups of changed files every hour for a day, every day for a week, and a backup for every week […]
Tonight I was visiting space150’s website. I decided to view the source of their website because I was curious and there was a surprise. Check it out! Pretty clever if you ask me.
Today I spent some time trying to improve the speed of our CI/Nightly builds with TFS. While we found out that it was a backup solution that was causing the majority of our problems, I also found that we were not doing incremental builds. If you put this at the bottom of your […]
Even though I got made fun of for about a half hour straight last week at leadership training for going to Code Camp by sales/marketing people, I thought I would mention the next code camp is coming up on April 5th. I am pumped up for this one because it has a variety of […]
It has been one week since the F1 Web Challenge and I think I have finally recovered. It was a very fun event. It was actually longer than 24 hours. I was up for 36 hours!! It was on the U of M campus (St. Paul). There were eight of […]
Today I was trying to figure out how to validate if a user entered a number in a given set. I searched the internet high and low and could only figure out how to validate a range. I actually found the solution in a book, so I thought I would post it.
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I found a Ruby on Rails tutorial today that I thought I would share because it was easy to follow and it is targeted for version 2.0.2. This tutorial is a little bit more extensive than ones I have posted in the past. In this tutorial you will use scaffolding. This also includes setting up […]
