A few weeks ago the Boise valley had a tremendous amount of snow… enough so that the school districts called a snow day. I had to pick up Sierra (my daughter) and we came home to play in the snow. ...

For the longest time I had been stumbling on errors when trying to log in to my Rails site in development mode. Production worked flawlessly, but for whatever reason, development did not. Isnt that...

A project that I have been working on has been making heavy use of joined ActiveRecord models with the belongs_to method. By default, the find method performs a lazy load of the related objects. Ho...

ScottGu posted some tantalizing screenshots of the System.Web.MVC project properties that allow you to pick the target unit testing framework that you would like to use for your project. Choices in...

A little over three months ago, I shared with my readers my purchase of the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M. By the time I got through my initial stack of paper, I ended up scanning and shredding almost thr...

For some time now, my wife has been complaining about slowdowns on her iMac. Occassionally, I would login and try to do something and I found that the only way for me to login would be to completel...

If a software development organization needs to put check-in policies in place, then there are some other fundamental problems that are going on within the organization. Check-in policies are just ...

I just had the great fortune of being able to listen to Craig Shoemaker talk about System.Web.MVC with Jeffrey Palermo. This was a great talk and I feel that I’ve really learned a lot. I’ve created...

Note to self and other website designers: when building your website, please make sure that you don’t refuse access to a site based on the absence of a piece of software. I’m attempting to register...

Apple’s latest OSX offering has both Ruby and Ruby on Rails built into the framework. Although, as I’ve discovered, some of the rails gems are rather outdated. To make sure you’re playing with the ...