Monthly Archives: September 2006
My new favorite scm – SVK
Many years ago, I used CVS for my personal projects. After that, I used Perforce. The free perforce license for small guys was a good thing, but I didn’t find perforce to be the perfect solution. It had its issues … Continue reading
Era of the Mega, Giga and Tera
In the 80′s we had megahertz speed processors, megabyte sized disks, and kilobit speed wans with megabit lans. In the 90′s we still had megahertz processors, but gigabyte sized disks, megabit wans and 100 megabit lans. wireless was megabit. Here … Continue reading
911 video over at google
Jack puts up a link on his blog to a movie that raises questions about the cause of the WTC building collapse. It was too easy, I just clicked and then I was watching, and I couldn’t easily just tune … Continue reading
VIM rc file stuff
To be honest, I prefer a good GUI IDE for development projects. MSVC 6 with Visual Assist X rocks for C++. For the Rails development I do on my windows laptop, however, I just use a combination of Scite, standard … Continue reading
LAMP, or LAMR, how about LASR?
Fred Hwang pointed to this post by Steve Jones about the problem of the LAMP acronym with Ruby for the language instead of PHP. The problem being that it would be called LAMR. For those so inclined to drop buzzwords, … Continue reading
Rails – real data – database loading
Quick tip… When working on a rails project you need to have REAL DATA to work with in your development environment. The easiest way is to grab data from a production database. Ah, but won\’t that require SQL and effort? … Continue reading
Rails – How I get a new model up
Quick tip… When working on a rails project and I need to get a new model up and running, I do the following. ./script/generate model Fruit That will generate the model files, and most-importantly an empty migration… all in one … Continue reading
Expedia needs some better geotargeting
Now that I’m fully embedded in the advertising industry, I’m noticing how much improvement can be done. For example, Expedia sends me lots of emails. The most recent one tells me about travel deals to San Francisco. Uh, they have … Continue reading