Monthly Archives: October 2007

Leopard Countdown, But I’m Going Ubuntu

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 24, 2007

Apple.com has a chinzy countdown clock for Leopard, which releases October 26th. I’m eager to see what (if anything) it will do to the price of MacBooks. I’ve been using a MacBook at Carol, and I’ve been pretty happy with it. Ultimately, though, I think it’s just cute enough for me to not want to [...]

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Mailing is Fixed

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 23, 2007

The e-mail notification feature of the blog checked out when I moved servers. It’s back, but if you’ve posted a comment recently, you will have to manually go back to see if there was a response.

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Two People I Need to Research: Jane Addams and John Witherspoon

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 23, 2007

Jane Addams and John Witherspoon were incredible people. If you don’t know about them, just check out the Wikipedia and keep looking. It’s cool.

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Rails Backing Away from Dynamic Features?

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 21, 2007

DEPRECATION WARNING: find_all is deprecated and will be removed from Rails 2.0 (use find(:all, …)) See http://www.rubyonrails.org/deprecation for details. Anyone have an idea as to why?

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Okay, Rails, That Was Cool: Routes

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 21, 2007

So, I’m building this website, and there’s a reference section for different kinds of stones. These are being represented by passing a “stone” parameter into a controller, which renders lots of search-engine-unfriendly URLs like “http://blah.com/stone_meanings?stone=Agate”. I wanted to set up a route so that I could turn that into a more SEO-friendly URL. So I [...]

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