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Great image courtesy of Coding Horror:
Only in Russia
Entitled “Communal juice glass, Moscow, 1990“. Brings back memories of my time spent studying and working in Russia, many, many moons ago. The site has a great collection of shop front photos from the communist era.
Grids
A new project is looming large and it’s another UI rework, giving me the perfect excuse to look into a framework for CSS that I read about a while back. BluePrint is a grid based CSS framework.
Initially I wasn’t too sure how you would translate grids to web pages, but this blog post and presentation, [...]
More *nix command line fun
I don't know how often I have tried to start up a process and forgotten that it runs as root, forcing me to type the command in again prefixing it with sudo. That was until today, if you suffer from the same level of forgetfulness then sudo!! is for you.
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my-computer:~ user$ /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
(13)Permission [...]
SQL to XML
Just came across this neat trick that uses SQL to generate XML on the fly:
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DECLARE @x xml
SET @x=(select geoAreaCode
, geoLevelCode
, geoLevelId
, geoAreaId
from tbl_geoLevel
where uuid =
for xml raw('geoArea'), root('geoAreas'), type)
SELECT @x AS geoAreaInfo
The above will create an XML structure that has a root value of geoAreas and child elements of geoArea for each row [...]
Google Maps links
A bit late to the game, but to save me looking these up again, here are a couple of links with some great explanations on how to use the Google Maps API and the Geocoding functionality:
Google Maps API Tutorial
Rails, Geocoding, and Google Maps
Google maps mania
UPDATE
Nick Tong sent through this link by email, which [...]
Stubbie 0.1 available for download
Just wanted to let folks know, and with trepidation, that the 0.1 release of Stubbie is available for download from the project page. I have also added a few blog posts to the project:
Basic install instructions
Links for feedback, issues and suggestions
IE , the dom and long numbers
I just spent the best part of 45 minutes trying to figure out a weird issue with a value I was pulling out of a select box (using $F(element)). The value in question was a long number: 1000002229651626, which IE converted at the time of writing the value to the page (this was an [...]
Kudos Linode
A big thank you to Linode for once again up-ing the resources for my hosting plan. This UML instance now has 256Meg of Ram and 8 Gig of storage space as well as 100Gig transfer cap. Combine that with an awesome service and you have a winner. Thanks again Linode!
Announcing project: Stubbie
Just a quick note to let folks know that I have created a small project on RIA Forge called Stubbie. Inspired by a feature in Rails, Stubbie basically creates a set of test stubs for your apps CFCs. I have set up specific blog for it over at RIA forge to keep everything in one [...]