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WMSHC Photos

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:10:31 GMT

Hmmm, I've noticed a little bump in traffic yesterday. I can't imagine why. Maybe people are suddenly interested in my techno-babble rants. Yeah, that's probably it! Well, I'm a bit pressed for time this week. So you ain't getting all the photos just yet! But to appease the masses, here's a sampling. Hopefully I'll have the time to put the whole lot of them up before next Tuesday. Click images to view larger...

Running Rails Apps in a Subdirectory

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:48:54 GMT

Rails likes to be run in the top root directory of a web site, such as domain.com/. It doesn't play very nicely if you try to deploy an app in a subdirectory such as domain.com/myrailsapp. Nonetheless, sometimes you just want to deploy a basic app within its own folder under your current domain. I managed to cobble together a simple solution taking bits and pieces from others who have gone down a similar path. I don't take credit for this method, I am just writing down what I learned in...

TrampCamp 2007

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:02:24 GMT

Forget Camp FaSoLa. The new hotness is TrampCamp. 2007 was the inaugural year for TrampCamp and our one camper/instructor (pictured) is already signing up again for TrampCamp 2008. Shouldn't you too? Learn backflips, frontflips, sideflips, flipflops and much much more. Find your inner Mary Lou Retton power animal. TrampCamp 2007 would like to thank our generous sponsor, Craigslist for helping us secure this 10 year old trampoline for $60 and enabling us to have a full summer of...

An offering of peace

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:20:32 GMT

My handlers have been busy fielding the bundles upon bundles of angry fan mail that I've been receiving in response to my last few blog posts. So to help control the backlash I offer to my faithful, albeit, restless fans this generous bouquet of parentheses ((())) and accompanying ubercute WMSHC baby photo. I trust that the healing has begun.

Getting Highslide JS to assign an id to an iframe

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:45:48 GMT

After many days of working on a slick AJAX enabled video pop-up, I threw in the towel and decided to switch to using an iframe to call in the Flash video player. Ultimately, the end result is the same. The Ajax call was refusing to run the SWFObject which rewrites the div and embeds the Flash player. The window would open, but no video was present. The benefit of using SWFObject to embed the video far outweighs...

Google! Woot!

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:27:31 GMT

Whoah! Two posts in two days. Maybe I should admit myself? My morning routine is pretty much the same each day: Wake up, eat, workout, bathe, eat more, feed Tina, and check my Google standing in the world. I've done a lot of work getting KH exposure in Google (among others), so we're usually in the top spots for such keywords as knitting, learn to knit, knitting videos, etc. Google also sends us about 40% of our traffic everyday! So, today was extra nice as we're sitting in the #2 slot...

Work and Stuff

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:39:22 GMT

Well, I just got a non-spam comment to this blog (thank K) which sort of reminded me that this blog-o-thing exists and people occasionally stumble in here. I've been meaning to post something new and interesting for a while, so without further ado... I've been getting quite absorbed in my work lately. The latest project I am working on (err, slaving away at) is Amy's fabulous web site: KnittingHelp.com. The site continues...

Happy Birthday to Me!

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:00:21 GMT

Pioneer Valley All Day Sing Photos!

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:55:15 GMT

Amy put the pressure on me to get these photos done sooner rather than later. So, without further ado, here they are: Pioneer Valley All Day Sing Photos Enjoy!

New York Times Article

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:21:11 GMT

My contact at the New York Times emailed me this morning reminding me that the Sacred Harp article went live. I might have forgot, given how busy things are around here. The article is well written and it looks like they talked to a few of the right people. I was sort of nervous handing over my photos with the article sight unseen. The photo editor said they used two of my photos, but I only see one online. Maybe the other is in the print...