Archive: Outside the Box category

A few weeks ago Obie Fernandez posted a bunch of links to The Best Ruby on Rails Information Available. Good stuff -- check it out. [tags]Ruby on Rails[/tags]
Last night I dreamed a dream. It was this: family.add(dad, 48, mom, 44, ben, 22) And so on. family is an object of class Family, and dad, mom, and ben are objects of class Person. The kicker in the dream was that I could parse the arguments (the add ...
Apple's released the Get a Mac ads. My favorites are Restarting and iLife. LOL, literally. :) My Powerbook died a month ago (the video RAM, which unfortunately is part of the main logic board, which ...
I was working on a document in Writely a few moments ago, and I wanted to take a block of text (plus an image) and print it. So I copied it and opened Word. Just as I hit Paste, I thought to myself, "What are you thinking? ...
A new blog warrants a bit of background, methinks -- the tale of my life as it were. My family's first computer was a 286 with a monochrome (orange-tint) monitor, running DOS on some 5 1/4" floppies (no hard drive). The only program we had was WordPerfect. When I ...
Here at work we use ASP.NET, doing most of our coding in VB.NET. After a year and half of this, can I just say that I feel like VB.NET is rotting my brain? Sure, it's a real language, but the more I use it the dumber I feel, ...
Hmm, for some really weird reason, whenever I try to log in as the admin on this blog (not the other ones) in Firefox, it gives me a "Wrong username" error. And yet I can log in on Internet Explorer. That's sad (and wrong :)). It may ...
Now that I have SSH enabled on my server (I use Bluehost, by the way, and they're awesome -- and they just upgraded our accounts to 15 gigs instead of 10 :)), I can finally start developing for Ruby on Rails. Mmm. I picked up the second ...
Digital Bridge used to be my computer blog, but I didn't like the name very much, so I've created this blog instead. I'll mostly be writing about programming (Ruby on Rails, Python, Lisp, Getting Real, etc.), Web2.0 (Ajax, etc.), and other geek stuff (Macs, vi, usability, and more). ...