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Code Camp 4

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

   Yesterday I attended Twin Cities Code Camp 4. This was my third code camp. It was probably one of my favorite ones. I went down to the cities with James, Manohar and Jordan. We also met Joel D a former developer where I work. It was kind of nice that […]

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DatePicker for Rails

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

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 […]

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View Source

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

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.

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Code Camp - Spring 2008

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

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 […]

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Set Validation in Ruby

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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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Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

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 […]

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Ruby on Rails

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Since I have a long weekend due to the holidays, I thought I would spend some time getting familiar with ruby on rails. RoR just came out with version 2.0 this past month and pretty much all tutorials and resources are centered around previous versions and a lot has changed. RoR is built around the […]

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