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Archive for February, 2006

      

Home again, Home again

Just returned from 10 days in sunny Florida, most of it spent in a beach rental house my parents secured in St. Pete Beach. Great weather, the boys really enjoyed the beach.

Sunday, February 26th, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Application-wide preferences in Rails

I’m likely missing something obvious, but I haven’t found the proper “rails” way of handling application-wide preferences. I want to store the prefs in the db, probably in a table something like this:

preferences
id = int(11)
name = varchar
type = varchar [boolean/string/int/float/array/etc]
value = varchar

Then one-time, for the app, [...]

Friday, February 10th, 2006. Posted in Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>

Sleep Apnea

I spent last night at the local hospital hooked up to many, many wires in order to officially confirm Kt’s diagnosis of sleep apnea. I’ve always been a snorer, but it’s gotten worse in the last year and less manageable via sleep position.

Apparently I was a pretty clear case, since it often takes a [...]

Thursday, February 9th, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends | 2 Comments »>

A ripple in the beams

It looks like Seth and I are actually going to meet, in person at RailsConf in June. Wacky. I wonder how we’ll find each other in the crowd? Oh wait, we’re both in the 95th percentile for height!

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends, Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>

RailsConf

My boss just OK’d the bill to send me to RailsConf 2006 in June. Sweet! Really looking forward to it!

Monday, February 6th, 2006. Posted in Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>

Fun job

My friend Jim just IM’d me…"Hey, I’m on Jeff Tweedy’s tour bus." That’s Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.

"O," I say, "is it nice?"

"Yea, 42 inch plasmas in the bunk beds. How can you have wireless Internet in a moving bus?"

His job definitely seems more fun than mine at the moment.

Friday, February 3rd, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends, Music | No Comments »>

RE: Treo 650

You got to know, as soon as I order it, the upgrade is coming. Actually I probably wouldn’t spend what they will be asking for the new one on it, but a regular wifi connection would be a nice addition.

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Treo 650

I’m afraid I’ve pretty much worn out my Treo 300. After a bit of a run around with Sprint, I got a good deal on a Treo 650, so I ordered one. I went and played with it at the store and liked it a lot, I think it’ll be a lot of [...]

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>