http://chuddup.com/blog Oh God, not another tagline Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:09:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/35/another-rails-plugin-labeledformwitherrors/ 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 ... http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/34/st-patricks-day-fire-in-the-mission/ Apartment bouldering FTW Is it possible that I'm really into rock climbing when I start climbing things that aren't even close to rocks? Photo originally uploaded by linoleum jet. http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/33/apartment-bouldering-ftw/ 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. ... http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/32/google-adds-terrain-maps-and-public-transit-routing/ 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 that are quite out of date.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 ... http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/31/installing-rails-today/ 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! http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/30/heading-south/ 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 ... http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/29/get-running-with-rails-on-os-x-tiger/ 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 ... http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/28/play-xvid-with-audio-in-quicktime-player/ Tonight I'm releasing my first Rails plugin. This is the result of about half the work I did with my team at Rubyred Labs at Yahoo Hack Day 2006. I wrote the guts, but generous amounts of Rails plugin goodness were provided by Scott Fleckenstein. The Plugin: It's a drop-in addition to ... http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/27/drop-in-yahoo-browser-based-authentication-for-rails/ So... I had a lot of fun turning 25. Thanks to everyone who made it to my sloshball party and BBQ, and thanks to everyone who wished me well or told me "happy birthday." You all rock! And for that, you get Rocky... Ninja Rocky: Woo hoo! btw: I'm sure you ... http://chuddup.com/blog/archive/25/birfffffday/