Monthly Archives: June 2006

Rails Day 2006 – HugTracker

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It is now over and what an experience it was. I competed in Rails Day 2006 with some great teammates. We wrote a web app called HugTracker. I thought of the concept to have a tracking system that was opposite of a bug tracker so you could tell someone how good of a job they are doing. I am very excited about what we were able to create in under 24 hours. That isn’t really much time and yet we have a fairly useful app I think. The more I use Ruby on Rails the more impressed I am. It is truly the first framework I’ve seen that does so many things so well right out of the gate. When you use the features of the framework doing things that are normally fairly difficult become very easy. A great example of this is the ActiveRecord validations and rjs templates. Let me know what you think about our entry. Check it out

Microsoft is worried about taking down the internet

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Microsoft says they are worried about taking down the internet with the beta release of Vista.

See here

Why are they worried about this? As stated in the article this could easily be handled with a standard bittorrent client or even their own modified bittorrent client. It is too bad they are worried about using a technology such as this to their advantage. These are the types of problems that should be solved quickly if they aren’t already because online movie downloads will be commonplace before we know it.

Getting what you expect is great

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When I got my blackberry phone from verizon I decided to get the insurance because the phone was so expensive. I also decided to get it because they said verizon accessories were covered. This is a big deal to me cause I seem to have more problems with accessories breaking than anything else.

The other day my belt clip on the phone case broke off and the stitching started coming off on the case itself. I was on vacation so I decided to not worry about it till I got back. Yesterday I took my blackberry with the case into the verizon store where I bought the phone. I told them I had the insurance and after a minimal amount of hassle they gave me a new case. This is what I hoped for and expected when I bought the insurance. Based on experiences I have had in the past with cell phone companies though I still thought in the back of my head that I’d have trouble if I ever had to use the insurance. Well I’m glad to say for once that it worked as I had expected to begin with. So kudos for verizon! They are making me a happy customer and I will probably continue to stay with them for a long time if the service stays at the level I have seen so far. This is completely opposite of the experience I have had with Cingular, AT&T, MCI, Sprint and even verizon in the past for various cell phones I’ve had. Hopefully this trend of having better customer service will continue, because in my experience cell phone companies have typically had about the worst customer service of any company I’ve had to deal with.

ubuntu dapper upgrade

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I upgraded my laptop from breezy to dapper today. The biggest problem was getting X to work the right way again with my dual screen setup. I had to download a newer version of the ATI driver and manually configure things using aticonfig then hand editing the xorg.conf file. The GUI wizard that ATI provides with their driver doesn’t seem to work anymore. I’m not sure if this is caused by xorg 7.0 or something else. I did get everything else back up now though and it seems to be working well. This is the amazing thing about debian based distros. You can do full version upgrades without too much trouble. Doing this type of thing in many other linux distros or something like Windows usually causes many problems. We’ll have to see if I run into any other problems over time though. Does anyone else have anything good or bad to say about dapper so far?