April 2009
3 posts
Inequal Opportunity
I just released a gem that I’m real happy about: inequal_opportunity.  Inequal opportunity is a gem that allows you to write, concise, hash-based inequality conditions on ActiveRecord queries. Most of what is below is ripped off directly from the README.  Either read on, or dive right in at http://github.com/ryana/inequal_opportunity This does not work in ActiveRecord:   Doctor.all(:joins...
Apr 29th
VMWare Fusion w/ Unity Bliss
Short blog post, but too long for a tweet. I’ve done lot of work in VMs for years.  I’ve always used VMWare and had the same set of WinXP, Ubuntu, and Fedora VMs that I’ve carried along with me throughout.  A few weeks ago, my girlfriend got me a new laptop, a new unibody MacBook (yes yes… I know… she will be kept   ), and after weeks of being impressed, I just did...
Apr 20th
The Google blows my freaking mind.
Working at Punchbowl for the past few months has really opened my eyes as to the power of the The Google. More specifically, the power of content. I used to think that in order to get found by The Google was all just a matter of title, meta, and H1 tags. Turns out there is a _lot_ more to it than that. It’s amazing what weird ways people can find you once you actually start creating...
Apr 19th