Archive for July, 2007

A 1-day fishing licence.

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 […]

Subversion and Rails

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 […]

A big fat check for $0.25 and piece of mind.

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 […]

Custom Axis

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 […]

Ruby on Rails

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. 
I ended up going […]