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Funny Sign

kenglish — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:20:50 +0000

What a jerk!

kenglish — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:21:27 +0000

This guy needs Kittens for his Tiger . If you think that’s funny, there’s something wrong with you.

Internet Fame

kenglish — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:16:00 +0000

I’ve been twittered: http://twitter.com/alohaonrails/status/2242129462

JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit: THE JIT

kenglish — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:04:57 +0000

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

kenglish — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:07:50 +0000

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

kenglish — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:11:25 +0000

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.

kenglish — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:02:08 +0000

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

kenglish — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:44:53 +0000

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 :(

kenglish — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:07:12 +0000

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!

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:34:34 +0000

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.