Archive for July, 2007
A 1-day fishing licence.
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 07/23/2007
I went to Capitola again on Saturday, this time determined to actually do a little fishing instead of just paddling around. I bought some new line (17-lb test) to replace the line which had rotted away (probably only 8 or 10-lb test, anyway). I also bought some pre-packaged “surf leaders” to use instead of rolling my own. Back in Florida, I would’ve just used about a 1-ft leader with a weight above the swivel. These rigs had a swivel, about a foot to a foot and a half of line, and then a carabiner like snap on the end (they probably have a name, but I certainly don’t know it). There were also two loops evenly spaced from swivel to end, but their function eluded me… I put my 1-oz weight above the swivel and attached a hook at the bottom. Read the rest of this entry »
Subversion and Rails
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 07/17/2007
Dreamhost (the host I’m using to play around with Ruby on Rails) doesn’t support multiple production environments (out of the box anyway), but I’ve sort of found a solution. When I registered with DH, I got my one free domain–after racking my brain for days, I finally settled on one that I wasn’t super thrilled with…but good enough. About a week after registration, I of course came up with a much better name.
After registering the second domain, I started working on setting up a subversion repository. Being somewhat new with Unix, SVN, and Rails… it’s taken me a couple of days (well, a couple of hours each day for a couple of days) to get everything configured properly. I’ve now got domain #1 working as the development environment, domain #2 working in production mode, the databases set up for both, and both directories acting as a Working Copy. The rough plan is to make all my changes to the Dev environment, commit the changes, then–when satisfied–just roll over to the production side and run an update. It’s a pretty simple usage of Subversion…but hey, I’m the only developer.
All the databases and pages are purely temporary while I play around with rails before starting actual production, so unfortunately I’ll probably have to delete all this stuff and start over from scratch later. I haven’t read up on Capistrano at all, but I might investigate it before wiping everything. Progress on personal projects gets a little slow once you join the real world!
A big fat check for $0.25 and piece of mind.
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 07/17/2007
Hopefully this will be the last of my moving woes… My bank account with Wachovia (which doesn’t operate anywhere near the bay) was still active. I decided to give it a few weeks to make sure that everything on it had absolutely cleared, then make a payment with everything left in the account (leaving $0.25) onto one of my credit cards. As soon as that payment went through, the plan was to then close the account. I remembered my plan last Monday, after the account had been dormant for about two weeks. I made a big payment to one of my credit cards… and waited. I called on Wednesday to close my account, but the Wachovia guy showed that the transfer was still pending. I called back on Friday, only to be told that there was a hold on my account and that my balance was negative. Read the rest of this entry »
Custom Axis
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 07/07/2007
While at work, I ran across a scenario where none of the pre-built Flex charting components would suffice. We’re still in stealth, so I can’t talk too much about it–but basically we needed a non-LinearAxis. Much of the LinearAxis code is designed to space the axis labels perfectly in the proper unit of measure. I needed to have an axis label for the third Friday of every month in my data set…which isn’t a linear value. My original solution was a hack suitable for getting the job done at the time, but it wasn’t exactly reusable. We’re between dev cycles right now, so I’ve been tinkering around and decided to actually write the component so that it would be usable outside our code base. Read the rest of this entry »
Ruby on Rails
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 07/05/2007
The 4th of July isn’t really a resolution-type holiday, but I’ve been neglecting my desire to play around with ruby on the side. So, now that the food coma has worn off (mmm, barbeque), I’m going to try to spend at least one night a week playing with Flex/Ruby just for fun. Read the rest of this entry »