Agile Tortoise

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Archive for June, 2007

      

iPhone lines

We drove by the local AT&T on the way out to dinner last night. There were already 5 or 6 avid campers lined up on the sidewalk. Ah, to be young. Did that for concert tickets a few times, I guess. Once for a huge sale at a music store. [...]

Friday, June 29th, 2007. Posted in Apple | No Comments »>

PMC Software Auction

Seth’s charity software auction is exploding this year. Tons of great stuff, proceeds going to fight cancer — can’t beat that. I mean, when you donate to charity, who really wants a tote bag. But Mac productivity applications? Sweet!

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007. Posted in Misc | 1 Comment »>

New look

Installed a new look for the blog today. Nothing fancy…in fact, pretty stripped down. I’m debating a new look/CMS for my business site — debating Wordpress vs. Mephisto. I could pretty easily do what I need with either, but I want to incorporate a blog directed toward my clients, so I need [...]

Monday, June 25th, 2007. Posted in Blogging, WordPress | No Comments »>

Lone Star RubyConf

I just registered for Lone Star RubyConf in September. Not quite the spectacular that RailsConf was, but I bet it will be a good focused 2 days of learning and networking. Plus, I can crash at Sean’s.

Thursday, June 21st, 2007. Posted in Ruby on Rails | 1 Comment »>

Feedburner swap

Following Sean’s lead, I finally switched my RSS feed over to Feedburner. So update your RSS links to point to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/agiletortoise — if you partake in such things.
The old links will still work, just redirect to Feedburner, for now.

Thursday, June 21st, 2007. Posted in Blogging | No Comments »>

Equalize your cheese

Having now viewed disk 1 of season 1 of Land of the Lost, I truly realize that it’s important to equalize your cheese. If your content is cheesy, your introduction to it should be as well.
The modern, relatively slick, DVD menus — while not extreme — are overdone and only generate a let down [...]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007. Posted in TV | No Comments »>

Goplan

I’m starting to get back to work a little bit at a time after sequestering for some quality family time with the new baby. In an effort to get back on a solid footing with my never ending venture for personal organization and productivity, I’m giving Goplan a shot.
I’ve used Tracks, Kinkless GTD, Remember [...]

Monday, June 18th, 2007. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

Servoy snippet: form_exists, form_method_exists

Here's a couple of useful Servoy methods I've been using...
To test for the existence of a form, use the following in a method (mine is in a mod_at module and named 'mod_at_form_exists'):
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JavaScript:

eval('forms.'+arguments[0]);

return forms[arguments[0]] ? true : false;

Note the "eval" call ensures that the form has been loaded.
To test for the existence of a [...]

Monday, June 11th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | 1 Comment »>

Leo Hendrix Pierce

For those of you that I didn't contact personally, or don't read the family blog -- we welcomed a new baby boy into the world on Tuesday!
Leo Hendrix Pierce was 8 lbs. 5 ozs, 18 3/4" in. and born at about 5:48pm 6/5/2007. He's a real champ, and is doing great. As is [...]

Friday, June 8th, 2007. Posted in Family and Friends | 2 Comments »>

Reproducing your childhood

The persistence and availability of media creates interesting challenges for today's parent. Yes, you've got to ask interesting questions about yourself, your parenting style and your goals for your children when you find yourself considering adding the entire first season of Land of the Lost to your NetFlix queue.
Such is the position I found [...]

Friday, June 1st, 2007. Posted in TV | 1 Comment »>