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Quote from EC: “I am the floss puppet. I can’t lose.”

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

My seven year old son made this comment after brushing his teeth. He had a small container of floss that he was swinging around as he rattled on and on about being the floss puppet who cannot lose.

Quote from EC: “Do you think ’say uncle’ is a version of kid torture?”

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

You’d swear I was making this one up, but my wife was there to hear it along with me today. We were getting out of the car this afternoon to go to the store and our seven year old, EC, asks this question out of the blue to his mom and me. Ummm…
One day I’ll [...]

Quote from EC: “Let’s get one thing straight: My head is not square!”

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

My seven year old son made this emphatic statement after re-examining the picture shown here. Mind you, he requested a caricature be drawn of he and his sister when we were in Orlando, FL earlier this summer. I guess he didn’t like the results.
Everyone who has seen this picture so far agrees that it captures [...]

How to Schedule a Ruby on Rails Rake Task Via Cron

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

If you ever want to run a Rails Rake task on a schedule via cron, here is the entry you need to make in crontab:
*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/apps/rails_app/ && /usr/local/bin/rake RAILS_ENV=production rake_task:goes_here
The above snippet will run the given Rails Rake task using the production environment every 5 minutes. Note that you need [...]

So Long Chad The Developer

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

I had the honor of working with Chad The Developer for nearly two years. Yes, Chad THE Developer. His legend will live on as his last day working at the Joplin office is today. Memorable moments of Chad include:
Chad does not copy and paste code. He will re-type code in because he has been [...]

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