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a huge beanie is approaching fast

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

In Rails, one form helper(well, besides a broken date_select) stands alone as cruel, sadistic, and impossible-to-please with just a simple hash. That form helper’s name: option_groups_from_collection_for_select.
It’s so painful that most people would re-implement it, rather than fall victim to its NoMethodError wails. But that’s not the path for us. When you’re using something like Base [...]

Builder, indentation, and namespaces

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Builder is a neat piece of kit but, like most sane libraries, wasn’t designed around the brain-damage that is Business-dialect XML(chock full of custom namespaces and tags devoted solely to attributes).
Builder’s docs seem to imply that a namespaced tag always needs to be in block form:
xml.bqcm :UselessMetadata {|n| n”chimney”}, “flue”)
“I still want to send my [...]

God, sphinx, and you

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

god is my newest favorite tool for server and Rails monitoring, not to mention the entertaining conversations it can produce(”God was spanking the mongrels repeatedly, without letting them fully start”, “god spammed my mailbox with over 700 emails this weekend”, “I’m killing god right now, it should be back in a minute”). One of the [...]

audio surfin’, across the universe

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

So the public version of Audio Surf has just been released as a Steam app. As you can see, it’s already becoming addictive for replays in addition to beating other people’s high scores(someone’s already beat my score on Deltron 3030’s “Battlesong”).
Of course, there’s potentially one problem for some people: the default distribution is not compatible [...]