Can we standardize the standards, please?

My dreams are haunted by standards organizations (and spear-wielding iguanas in tutus but that's a different post). Trying to figure out which standard meets which business case or what set of standards together can you claim in a new product - it...

Father of the Year

I think there should be a father of the year award. Not like a trophy, certificate, or coffee mug, but something that actually incentivizes deadbeat Dads to actually give a shit. 4 editorial notes on this: 1. I'm not throwing my hat in the ring. I...

What happened to my live feed?

Yes - yet another blogger posting about facebook. The infatuation with facebook, both in media and in the public, is another post however. This is a sympathy for facebook post. Why? 1. It's hard to please everyone Have you had a huge Thanksgiving ...

Taking chances with open source

Advocates of Linux, Postgres, Ruby, OpenLDAP and OpenStack all tout the benefits of having an open-source architecture. Granted, it's a hard pill to swallow especially in compliance-ridden industries (finance, health). The benefits are vast though...

Onward and Upward

There are 2 trends I've noticed with my career and it's likely that they are related: 1. I've been going from smaller to smaller companies. 2. I've been wearing more and more hats. Along the way, my work-life balance became unbalanced. I've learne...

Link broken in Firefox but not Chrome

Coding for a multitude of browsers is always fun. The latest issue I ran into is that firefox doesn't like elements with an id that starts with a number. So is kosher with javascript handling in chrome but not legit with firefox.

Solr Sunspot

There are a lot of search options for rails applications out there. We batted around with meta_search, and while implementing it, we ended up doing more and more straight sql searches. While this allowed greater customization and control over what...

git permission denied when doing a push

I've been operating primarily in one repository, but had to create and work in another. When I tried to push my code to my new repo, I got the following error: $ git push -u origin master ERROR: Permission to xxxxxxx denied to yyyyyyyy. fatal: The...

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