2007
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RIP, Maxie
I had to put down my dog this week. She was 11 1/2 years old, and was, essentially, our first “baby.” I had always thought she’d live to be a really old dog, because she was so energetic and active…but, cancer doesn’t much care about those things. Katie and I got her together, [...]
Servoy 4.0 preview
On Wednesday, Servoy offered a preview webinar for the changes coming in version 4 — due for public beta in January, and aimed for release in late Q2 2008. The most high-profile change in this release is the move to Eclipse platform for an IDE, abandoning the somewhat limited proprietary IDE in current versions [...]
Flotsam or jetsam?
So, is a garbarge truck in a swimming pool flotsam or jetsam? OK, probably neither….but, there was one in a swimming pool a couple of blocks from our house tonight.
We went outside to go to dinner and found an entourage of News helicopters circling overhead at low altitude. We didn’t know [...]
Servoy: simple HTML progress bar
I have several places in Servoy solutions where it's nice to display a simple progress bar to the user. This is for workflows, where the user needs a visual for how far along they are on the task/job/etc. -- not for actual progress on executing code.
I wrote a simple global method you [...]
Servoy newsletter
Servoy was nice enough to acknowledge my Servoy-related blogging in their October newsletter. Nice compliment, thanks! Now, I just feel guilty about not blogging more.
Agile Tortoise Widget
Ok, really just an excuse to play with Dashcode, but, yes, ladies and gentlemen, I now have a custom Dashboard Widget for this blog. Please download if you're of the OS X persuasion.
12 years
Though our anniversary sadly gets lost in the shuffle of birthday parties and Halloween around our house, as of yesterday Katie and I have been married for 12 years. I continue to steadfastly believe that marrying Katie was the finest decision I've ever made.
Welcome to the blogosphere, sis!
My sister's got a blog now. She's an independent consultant in the Seattle area who helps non-profit organizations actually live up to the "organization" part of their name.
TextMate syntax coloring and Rails 2.0
Now that the Ruby on Rails 2.0 Preview Release is out, I'm playing around with it. First thing I noticed, while minor, is that TextMate's syntax coloring for "HTML (Rails)" doesn't recognize the new view naming scheme. "rhtml" is now replaced by "html.erb" as the file extension.
It's a simple fix, however. Just [...]
Large client app online
I spent the weekend migrating data for one of my clients, and they are 'live' starting today on a large Servoy project management application I've been working on for the last year. The app has 160+ forms and reports.
The application handles most of them up-front business processes, Estimating and managing Jobs, through Invoicing, where [...]
Dog update
Maxie, my dog, is doing much better now. Whatever infection she had seems to be responding to the antibiotics and she getting up and moving around pretty well, though still with somewhat of a hobble. Hopefully there won't be any long term side effects.
Sick dog
My dog, Maxie, is sick. She started limping a bit two days ago, but I didn't think much of it because she pulls up lame for a day or two from overdoing it with the frisbee or whatever else. After all she's 11 years old. But last night it got much worse [...]
Microsoft demo day
I spent the day yesterday at Microsoft's Irving campus at a demo day required by part-time Microsoft consulting gig. It was interesting, in it own way. Nice to be able to get together with everyone from the consulting gig, most of whom I rarely see in person. Nice to check out MS's [...]
RSpec
David Chelimsky's intro to RSpec definitely made testing look a lot more practical and worth the effort to me. It makes the grammar of the test much friendlier.
Servoy VUG slides and demo
I've uploaded the slides and demo solution from the presentation I did today on the Servoy VUG.