Entries Tagged as 'House Stuff'

How Mortgages and Housing Hurt the Economy

March 20th, 2008 No Comments

I had always assumed that the potential for default on risky mortgages was a problem, but I didn’t realize how far reaching it could become. Here is an article in the New York Times that explains how bad mortgages can have a dire effect on the global economy.
In case you want more bad news [...]

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Add Website Search Using ASP.Net and Lucene

March 10th, 2008 No Comments

I have read a lot about Lucene over the years and finally managed to find an excuse to play with it. I used it to add a general search to ThePlanCollection.com. Here’s a detailed writeup including the code I used to implement search using Lucene on ASP.Net.
Enjoy.

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Kill Internet Explorer With CSS

February 27th, 2008 No Comments

We got a call today at The Plan Collection that was interesting. A guy was trying to print out one of our pages. Each time he tried his browser would crash. At first I thought, “that is just nuts. Html can’t crash your browser.” Then Jake tried it and it [...]

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A Favorite House Plan

January 15th, 2008 No Comments

I am one of the owner’s of ThePlanCollection.com an online home plan publisher. When you write all the code that powers a site like that you become very familiar with the product. This is one of my favorite house plans of all time. It’s not huge, but it isn’t small either. [...]

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The Plan Collection

June 14th, 2006 No Comments

I have spent the past few weeks working on two projects. One is brand new and very exciting - houseplans.info. I developed that site in Ruby on Rails and it uses mysql on the backend. That project took me about four weeks working a few hours in the evenings. It is [...]

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