Uploadify onComplete Wouldn’t Fire Until I Swore – A Lot
I’ve been trying to get Uploadify to work inside my uploader gem. Things went pretty well until I combined that with the muck-contents gem and tried to do multiple file uploads from within a plugin I’d written for the TinyMCE editor. At that point things got ugly.
If you do much research on Uploadify you’ll find [...]
Why Do We Eat This Crap?
There’s an article on the front page of KSL today that examines why we crave the stuff that’s bad for us. Most people feel that they are overweight because they eat to much and that’s true, but to much is hard to judge anymore. If you talk to most people they will tell you the [...]
Cycling is for Old Guys
I rode out to Porcupine this morning. I spent the first half the ride cussing at my Polar CS600 since it ‘couldn’t find the sensors’ and the screen kept going out. You’d think that changing a battery wouldn’t be such a dramatic experience.
I went out to Porcupine dam which is a great morning ride since [...]
Polar CS600 Error 169
I have a Polar CS600 that I use to monitor my rides. I love it except for when it comes time to change the battery. This seemingly simple exercise is much harder than it should be. I’ve attempted to change the battery a number of times. It’s an odd CR2354 button cell that is hard [...]
I Spent My Day With Hot, Young Girls
Well, at the first of the day they were cold young girls then we went to Bear Lake and it was pretty hot. My wife is girl’s camp director which means she gets to spend 6 months planning for a week long event. She is really good at what she does and it always goes [...]
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Got error 139 from storage engine
I ran into a ‘fun’ error with an application I’ve been working on. Everything was running fine and then one day hoptoad started filling up with exceptions like this:
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Got error 139 from storage engine
I hate errors like that. Lucky for me there’s Google:
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?22,63584,166521#msg-166521
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10035
Turns out that each row in mysql has a limit of [...]
Justin Ball is a software consultant and entrepreneur with a passion for Ruby. He evolved from a C++ and .Net monkey into a python programmer and finally found Ruby. In the rare moments when he isn't writing code, talking about code or measuring his code productivity in profanity per hour, you can find him on his bike in the mountains or on the roads surrounding Cache Valley. 
