Institutional Knowledge

When Rails 1.1 came out we didn’t want to break our existing apps (not that we were doing anything that would have broke, but why take that risk) so we did the prudent thing and “froze” our apps with the gems for Rails 1.0. That Rails allows you to do this is such a […]

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Wherein we start to love ruby.

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Ok, it’s official. I have over 50 megabytes in my SPAM folder that has yet to be aged(deleted). Revisiting, my last post on this issue it appears that I have collected 27 megabytes of SPAM in just over a month.

I should seriously just forward my Wildcatmail it to my GMail account…

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Dear America,

Please switch to 24 hour time. It makes sense and it’s easier for coding. I’m tired of implementing this logic in all my applications and deal with time.

PLAIN TEXTRUBY:
def ampm(hour)
    case hour
      when      : “12 am”
      when 1..11 : ”#{hour} am”
      when 12    : […]

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Wherein we blog about blogging and blogs. BLOGS!

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Well if University Waterloo can do it, so can we!

Strip down your sites of CSS and show us your HTML with pride. For more info on Naked Day, check out the man who started it all, Dustin Diaz.

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Wherein we cry “our kingdom for a map!”

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What they forgot to mention was, “In addition don’t use the Print, Bookmark, Home button, or the Google search box. God save the soul who tries to use tabbed browsing in PeopleSoft Self-Service. Clicking or double-clicking is also strictly forbidden”

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Seems like U. Michigan has a setup to allow people to create their own Movable Type blogs. Nice… What blog service would be complete without it’s own blog?

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