I’ve added a Windows Mobile category to the blog because I have a feeling that I’ll be posting much more about it in the future. I’m retiring the P900 for now as I’ve picked up the new Cingular 8125.
Let me first say a couple of things before I talk about the new device. [...]

Jamie’s PolkaDachs site was featured in the Park Cities Paper recently. I just wanted to post this to mention how proud I am of her. I don’t normally endorse shamless plugging, but if you’re looking for a unique gift with a touch of personalization then check it out!

In the past I’ve always wondered how to send email attachments from the command line on Linux. I used to be able to email text based files using the mail command:
mail user@domain.com < yourfile.txt
This is useful but actually embeds the text into the body of the email. I recently learned how to send this text [...]

No I’m not talking Macromedia Flash which most people who know me would assume. I’m talking about the Ruby on Rails flash object. The flash object is a mechanism to pass information between different actions.
In my olden days of ColdFusion development we would pass information between requests using URL and hidden form variables. [...]

Whitespace is a pet peeve of mine. It doesn’t cause much harm although it can make debugging code a bit difficult. Plus it can add to overall size bloat of your webpage. Back in the ColdFusion days I used to use techniques such as cfsetting and cfprocessingdirective to remove whitespace.
I was excited to see that [...]

I’ve been helping a friend of mine get acquainted with Linux. Since I’m most familiar with RedHat I pointed him to Fedora Core 4. It’s always great to see the excitement from people when they realize they don’t need Microsoft to survive in the computing world.
One of the first things my buddy did was purchase [...]

I’ve been using RadRails for a few months now and really enjoy its ease of use.  It’s based on Eclipse and provides most of the features you need for building Rails applications.  RadRails makes it simple to create new Rails projects, models, controllers, and views.  The most useful thing I’ve found is the support for [...]

Ruby on Rails stresses “convention over configuration” which I completely agree with it. There’s always a difference between saying something and actually practicing it. I think RoR does a great job of letting the developer focus on code while requiring minimal configuration.
This evening I was working on a personal project that uses ActionMailer to send [...]

This is probably the 5th time I’ve received the email below and I’ve always question its validity. I’m not saying that this incident has never happened, but is *677 a legitimate mobile number?
Being both a husband and father I worry about the two most important women in my life. Not that my daughter is old [...]

I received an email today from my MovableType blog saying that a visitor to my old blog site tried posting a numerous amount of comments.  His/Her/Its IP address was automatically banned, which I thought was pretty cool functionality.  You can see a screen of the email below.

It’s pretty sad when developers have to spend all [...]