What a jerk!
By kenglish
This guy needs Kittens for his Tiger . If you think that’s funny, there’s something wrong with you.
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit: THE JIT
By kenglish
Saw a cool post on Ajaxian about a Javascript Toolkit for Data Visualization called JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit . Looks pretty cool. Checkout the demos, I especially dig the pie charts.
JsLint to the rescue
By kenglish
This morning my JavaScript was causing an error in IE 6. The error was : “ERROR: ‘isFormField’ is null or not an object” which makes sense only to one guy at Microsoft who also happens to have collection Sub-Saharan lizards.
I got a hint that it might be a trailing comma somewhere in my JavaScript I stated pasting my code into jslint.com and was surprised at what a useful tool this is. Not only did it help me find my trailing comma, it showed me some other cool fixes I could do to my code.
VI key bindings for NetBeans
By kenglish
I’ve moved to NetBeans. Sorry RubyMine but now that I know that Netbeans has a vi plugin, I’m hooked
Ruby on Rails: Override singularize, pluralize.
By kenglish
It took me a while to figure this out but it’s really a no brainer.
I was getting:
>> "biodatabases".singularize => "biodatabasis"
To fix this, I edited config/initializers/inflections.rb and added:
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect| inflect.irregular 'biodatabase', 'biodatabases' end
I know this is in the docs somewhere but I put in on my blog so I don’t forget.
Handle 404 Errors with Errorlytics
By kenglish
There’s a cool Mashable writeup about this service called Errorlytics. This site is written in Rails and seems pretty cool. It allows you to customize responses for 404 errors.
Aloha, old blog :(
By kenglish
Say goodbye to kenglish77.com/surfblog. I imported everything into WordPress via RSS. It literally took 10 minutes and that was because I had to hack the old system to get the output to format properly. Actually, I gotta give love to the old system. It was based entirely on flat files. It was simple and elegant. But I gotta keep up with the time.
BTW: the old system was called Simple Php Blog. I’m still using that awesome header image. It’s so peaceful that you are probably relaxing very deeply in your chair right now.
Hello world!
By admin
Dudes, WordPress is pretty easy to install. Took me 4.35 minutes. My awesome host (Black Dog Hosting) hooked me up pretty quickly. He has PHP 4.4.4 and Mysql 5.0.32. I’m suprised he hasn’t upgraded to Php 5. When are we gonna see Php 6? I think that people will have the same reaction to Php 6 will probably be like Perl 6: Who cares, we’re all using Ruby and Python now ! Damn, I just burned my whole Php readership. This blog is off to a bad start.




June 24th, 2009