Posted by Dave Minor
Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:59:00 GMT
Dear LazyWeb,
The new trend in blogs is to have relative timestamps like “posted about 3 hours ago.” It’s cute—whatever.
I just noticed while working on a Typo theme that when you view the source, the real timestamp is plugged in! How do it know??
I assume there is some javascript code doing the cutsy stamp after the page loads, but I don’t see any calls for that to happen.
I think it’s cool and I want to know the details behind it, but I’m too behind to go looking right now. If noone enlightens me, maybe this will remind me to come back and dig into the code later.
UPDATE: ok, I found the call to show_dates_as_local_time() which I assume takes care of that.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Software, Programming | no comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:35:00 GMT
Whew! sorry it’s been a while. Things have just been insanely busy recently. and I don’t see anything letting up for a while.
Here’s some major things I want to note that have been taking up my excess time:
got a new macbookpro It of course Rocks! :) The conversion to it went pretty smoothly. I didn’t let the wizard transfer everything over because I hadn’t had a “clean” install since the pre-release of OSX I think.
went to RailsConf2006 It of course Rocked! :)
I’m not sure that I can share anything enlightening about RailsConf that others haven’t posted yet, but I loved getting to meet people that I had only talked to online. and meet new folks that I will now continue to talk with.
Especially enjoyed getting to meet in person Jason Perkins who I’ve know online for several years. “You Da Man!” for helping me out with a room when my original plans fell through!
The last news is late breaking. I finalized a deal this morning to purchase a 1977 Cessna 172 180hp conversion. I’ll get some pictures of the actual bird next week and post them. I’m pretty pumped. I’ve been looking at several airplanes and this one just completely Felt Right to me. There were pros and cons to all of them, but my gut feeling was very different with this plane. Which is weird since I’ve really been a pro-piper guy. Anyway, I can’t wait to start flying it.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Flying, Hardware | no comments
Posted by Dave Minor
Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:19:00 GMT
Last week I went through a process to get fink off my powerbook and in the process, installed Rails 0.14.2 and MySQL 4.1.15. So today, to take advantage of the better test performance, I upgraded the mysql gem to 2.7 to get the latest native bindings.
$ gem update mysql -- --with-mysql-config
Note: This is for OS X 10.3.9 with mysql and ruby from DarwinPorts.
The great news is that it worked! My rake has gone from 3 min. 40-ish seconds to 2 minutes 40-ish seconds. Gotta love that!
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Programming | 1 comment
