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Archive for May, 2007

30 May, 2007

Microsoft “iTable” … the iPhone you can eat off!

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff| News

(original link from QJ.NET and gizmodo)

29 May, 2007

Six drummers and an apartment

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff


28 May, 2007

Verizon rising up against the iPhone

Posted by: imarichardson In: Apple/Macintosh| News

Evidently Verizon is working on releasing a competitor to the iPhone this summer called the LG Prada. I’m a big mac fan but a dedicated Verizoneer … it’ll be nice to see how it pans up. And hopefully it’ll support syncing with a Mac!!!!!! (from Macworld via News4mac.)

So I inadvertently added a directory to ignore in subversion only to find out after I deployed (capistrano) that I should not have. So I wrestled around for about 20 minutes when it dawned on me: why not just check the svn  help on my box. Nonetheless, here’s what it is:
To add to subversion, use [...]

10 May, 2007

Paginate, Sort, & Search table with RJS

Posted by: imarichardson In: Programming & Development

So if you’re like me you inevitably have to have an uber cool table in your application that doesn’t just sit there but allows you to run really nice interactive features like dynamically updating as someone types in a search parameter. If so, you need to check out this tutorial from http://dev.nozav.org! As I was [...]

I about pulled the leftovers of hair out of my head trying to figure this one out. The error log kept stating that the layout files I specified were not there but I could see that they in fact were. On my development and staging boxes (Mac) everything worked perfectly but I couldn’t figure out [...]

So it seems like everyone’s agreeing that Attachment_Fu (tutorial here) is the Acts_As_Authenticated new model Liquid Metal Terminator version 2 replacement for handling file uploads. The only problem is that for an application I’m developing I need to specify a specific location for each upload based on a particular primary key id rather than just [...]


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