Archive for the ‘Web/Technology’ Category

Another Rails Plugin: LabeledFormWithErrors

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Today I released my second plugin for Rails.

It’s pretty simple. It’s a set of 4 helper methods, based on the form builder that comes with Rails 2.0+ that provides you a sane way to present the error messages from your Model validations on form labels. That’s enough tell, on with the show!

app/models/person.rb

class Person < […]

St. Patrick’s Day fire in the Mission

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

The house behind mine is on fire and getting worse

Photo originally uploaded by cee-dub.

The fire was right behind my house. This is a photo I took with my iPhone, the only camera I had available at the time, right before leaving the house in case the fire jumped over Poplar St. to my building.

This photo […]

Google Adds Terrain Maps and Public Transit Routing

Friday, November 30th, 2007

I’m very impressed with Google Maps. The team there frequently adds useful features in well-executed ways.

Just today I noticed two new features. The first, is Terrain map tiles that feature both shaded relief of the actual terrain and road detail. This is what the Hybrid view wishes it looked like. Bravo!

The second new feature is […]

Installing Rails Today

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

It seems that a lot of old blog posts are floating about on the web these days with instructions on how to install ruby/rails/mysql/etc. that are quite out of date. My post on the same topic included. I’d like to remedy that situation, since I just reinstalled my OS today and had to go through […]

Heading South

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Yeah. I don’t write much. I’ve been busy. You might get to find out why if you are in Austin the week of SXSW Interactive. Come to our party:

Back to work!

Get running with Rails on OS X Tiger

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Follow these instructions and your shiny new MacBook will be ready for you to write the next hot Rails app in very little time.

I’ll be covering the steps necessary to get the full Rails stack running on your Mac (Rails 1.2, mongrel, and MySQL 5). I’ll also tell you the easiest way to get Subversion […]

Play XviD with audio in Quicktime Player

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

I don’t know how many people care, but sometimes I just want to use Quicktime player (or another Core Audio-based app) to play video files. The problem is, a lot of files these days have 5.1 channel AC-3 audio.

I finally found the key: A52Codec

Download it here

Now, off to watch Heroes in HDTV…