April 2006
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New Theme
Thanks to a del.icio.us post by Ben I became familiar with an old Typo theme called Scribbish. After seeing it, I quickly downloaded the theme and installed on my weblog.
I don’t really know how I missed this theme from the Typogarden theme contest, but man is it nice! I made a couple of minor changes (like moving the sidebar to the right), but I really like how must faster the whole site...
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Rails CHM Documentation - Version 1.1.2
I was able to get around to updating the Rails CHM Documentation this morning. It’s taken me a bit longer than I would have liked to get this out, so I apologize. There really is a good reason for the long wait!
I had previous made some modifications to the RDOC CHM generator file to get the previous version working the way I liked, and while upgrading Ruby to 1.8.4, I accidentally...
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Acts As Dropdown Plugin
I saw a post on Monday morning written by courtney over at http://habtm.com called “Handy Select Functions”. I had recently begun building this type of functionality into some of the models in my current application, but when I saw this, I immediately thought “Wow, that’s much better!”
After adding these methods to a library file and trying it out in my application,...
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Runaway Train
I went to the Paramount Theatre last Wednesday to see Train play. I saw these guys for the first time at “La Zona Roza” in Austin as part of the 2001 South-by-Southwest Music Festival. The one thing I had totally forgotten about Train, until seeing them again this week, was that their guitar player is really good. You wouldn’t guess it from any of their albums (where the guitar...