We are at the end of the second day of the OER code sprint. This has been a great time feels quite a bit different than the higher level OER meetings I have attended. The first few hours of the first day were spent chatting, but after that I think that quite a [...]
OER Code Sprint
February 6th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: code sprint · OER · Programming · Ruby On Rails
Framework Problems Will Ruin Your Day
January 23rd, 2008 No Comments
I created a code generator that writes all the of the code that connects ThePlanCollection.com website with its database. It is kind of like ActiveRecord that makes Rails so useful but not nearly as elegant. Someday I will release it as open source, but I am probably to late given all the other [...]
Tags: code generation · Programming · theplancollection
A Gazillion House Plans on ThePlanCollection.com
January 23rd, 2008 No Comments
I updated ThePlanCollection.com last night. I must admit that updating when you are tired is not always the best idea, but I figure everyone else is probably asleep so there isn’t really a better time. We don’t really have a gazillion house plans, but sometime it feels like it and being able to [...]
Tags: ASP.Net · house plans · image processing · Programming · The Plan Collection
Google Base and Windows Pain
January 5th, 2008 No Comments
So I have been trying to figure out Google Base for the last week so that I can send all the house plans from The Plan Collection into the Google product feed.
Getting your products into their feed isn’t that hard, but being a programmer and a masochist (they are the same thing you know) I [...]
Tags: Programming · The Plan Collection · windows
Learn this, no this, no this
September 15th, 2005 No Comments
I have been a programmer for a few years. During that time I went
from “Bill Gates is the antiChrist” to Microsoft isn’t so bad to I just
don’t care give me money. Programmers are prostitutes. Give
us money and we do what you want. I love python, but I admit to
be a closet asp.net programmer. I believe [...]
Tags: learning · Microsoft · Programming · theplancollection










