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My Colorado Avalanche managed to make it through the first round of the NHL playoffs. Now they have the pleasure of playing the possibly unstoppable Detroit Red Wings in the second round. In truth the Wings have looked fairly human this season, especially in the playoffs. We shall see.
The Wife and I are suddenly both […]

Coworker Peter: ooooh, i was just about to ask you something but you answered me in the past!
Coworker Peter: ur THAT good
Jake: fuck yeah!

This post is pure geekery, so never you mind if that’s not your thing…
We use a Ruby on Rails plugin called acts_as_solr for full text search on some of our Rails apps at work. This provides an interface to a Solr search engine, which is based on Lucene technology. Lately I’ve been digging into some […]

If you are a ColdFusion or Ruby on Rails developer looking for a change of venue — or perhaps a recent college grad hoping to start a career in web development — you should know that my employer is hiring.
Our office is in scenic Boulder, CO, and you can’t beat the Nerf wars for stress […]

Do you do anything associated with the development of web pages?
If so, you need the FireBug extension for FireFox.
I’ve been using this thing like crazy lately. It’s teh awesome.

Ruby and Rails are weird. I like it.
Kurt Vonnegut is no more. I believe the thing to say here is “So it goes.”
We’ve got a doozy of a snow storm coming. It’s April…
I talked my boss into meeting me at the roller derby match last weekend. In return, he may be taking me to a […]

A common need for web apps is to insert something into a database table and then immediately find out which ID got assigned to your new thing so that you can refer to it later in the script (probably while inserting more data).
A lot of folks start out doing something along the lines of:
INSERT INTO […]

Near the end of August in 2001, after a four month period of being unemployed, I finally found a job with a Boulder company called e-InfoData.com (Holy internet cliche overload!). We’ll round the ensuing passage of time up to five and a half years for the purpose of this discussion.
In that period the company changed […]