While in Honduras I was faced with the task of navigating Windows in Espanol. This was my first encounter with the multilingual OS in another language. In my never ending task to become fluent in Espanol I’m thinking what better way to learn the language than to install it on my notebook

I took a tremendous amount of photos when in Tegucigalpa of the Mogote kids playing futbol.  The Hope for Honduras mission recently created a league for the kids and we were honored to see the pre-game ceremony on Saturday.
Although these kids have next to nothing you would never be able to tell that from these [...]

If you’re new to unit testing with Rails (I am) be sure to implement a setup method to instantiate your model object. If you look at the basic shell for unit tests you’ll notice that a setup method is not defined. Yet if you view a basic functional test you’ll see that a setup method [...]

I ran into an XHTML element closure issue a couple of weeks ago and wanted to share it here. I had two div layers with a Google map in each. The markup basically looked like:
[div id="map1" /]
[div id="map2" /]
It doesn’t get much easier than that, but I ran into a big problem. I was unable [...]

I’ve been out of the country for the past week and didn’t have much time for blogging.  I’ll be working hard to pick up where I left off in addition to adding photos from my Honduras trip.  This will be done over the course of the next couple of weeks.
I was working with the Hope [...]

Thanks to my buddy Paradox for sending me this funny pic.  I have to admire the fact that the man in the photo has a sense of humor and isn’t leading us to believe that he actually wants to work.

I’ve received a fair amount of emails lately asking how to get BlueGPS working with different Bluetooth GPS receivers. The configuration is generally the same for most receivers. Some users are unaware of my configuration page and I wanted to share the link here: http://www.db75.com/new_blog/?p=235. I’ve made a couple of updates so [...]

I’ve been playing around with FLV encoding in Rails using FFmpeg.  Daniel Tome recently posted a comment pointing me to a Ruby library for FLV manipulation.  It’s called FLVTool and can supposedly insert meta data as well as cue points into an FLV file.  This is definitely a better solution than the one I suggested [...]

Tivo has been one of the greatest entertainment investments in our household. Until yesterday our Tivo had been working flawlessly. I generally don’t record sporting events, but with all the World Cup action I’ve been recording a lot of the games. I was severely disappointed yesterday (and today) when my Tivo missed two great overtime [...]