Monday, January 29th, 2007
I just got my MacBook this morning! I love it! 😀
As if enough people hadn’t already documented the MacBook being unpacked, I decided to do it again. Here are some pictures of my little white beauty.
Now I just need to name her…
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
In this post I’ll outline some of my favorite custom configuration options for Firefox, which can be set from about:config. Some of these preferences do not exist by default, so you will have to right-click in about:config, select New, the type of preference, and then enter the preference name exactly as I have written it.
browser.urlbar.autoFill
Type: Boolean
Possible Values: true, false
Setting this option to true will cause the url bar to auto complete urls. With this option, you can type the first few characters of a url, hit enter, and bingo, your at the site!

Note: It isn’t at first apparent how to stop the auto-completion at a certain point without going to the entire URL. For instance, if you want to go to a root domain, but the URL that starts to auto complete includes a specific page, just hit space after the domain name to stop the auto completion.
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
I just got my Agile Web Development with Rails book! Now I can learn rails and start writing killer software 10 times faster than I could with PHP!
end hype
Seriously, now I can actually see how easy it is to develop “real” software with rails, rather than the ten minute basically worthless blog software that doesn’t even have authentication. I think building Flowpad v2 with it (the next version of the tournament registration software) will be the ultimate test of its abilities.
Hopefully Rails will be up to the task.
Posted in Programming, Ruby | 2 Comments »