I finally got around to updating my trip photos page - The photos are as usual also on flickr so if you've seen those, there is nothing new here. I've had a couple really great backcountry trips this winter even with the warm weather (el nino? mango express? whatever, I just know it's warm!), ch…
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Fun in the backcountry
February 10, 2010
Chromium daily builds on OSX
January 4, 2010
For anyone who's using Google Chrome on OSX, it's worth checking out the daily builds of Chromium. Be warned, these are daily developer builds but it seems pretty stable so far and is a lot more polished than the 'beta' that is available.
There is a little utility you can download that will keep …
Outdoor Vanisle
December 22, 2009
This weekend I setup a new site, Outdoor Vanisle, as a place for the outdoor community on vancouver island to group and communicate. There are message forums and will eventually be places for people to post photos, trip reports, and a more organized resources section for the various activities and s…
Trip Photos
December 13, 2009
Since I take my camera pretty much anywhere I can, I've got a lot of pictures of various trips and adventures in the last few years. I do have lots of pictures from before 2007, but they are on film and I'm not feeling up to the task of swimming through the mountain of negatives quite yet.
I've go…
Taking snowboarding to the backcountry
December 2, 2009
I've been skiing since I was a kid, but the last few years have picked up snowboarding. My favourite style of riding is trees and powder, which snowboarding is ideal for... So this year I've decided to take it off the resorts back to where snowboarding originated from, and where the real epic powder…
Making tabs in vim better
November 19, 2009
I've been using Vim for a long time and never bothered checking out the tab stuff because I assumed that it worked like tabs normally work... Turns out in Vim, tabs are actually very useful, but poorly named. They are more view ports or varying layouts than tabs in the conventional sense - and are v…
Movember!
November 3, 2009
It's Movember again, time to grow a moustache and raise money and awareness for prostate cancer! I'll post some pictures at the end of the month with what is sure to be a creepy moustache.
There is a donation page setup for those who want to help the cause.
The money raised goes directly to Prosta…
My Vim setup for Rails development on OS X
October 4, 2009
I've been using Vim for awhile as my primary editor and when I was first starting I did a lot of poking around to see what other peoples setups looked like, so I figured I'd contribute a quick article back to the innernets with my setup.
Only one of the plugins I have installed is actually Rails spe…
Cancel 'Secure Erase' from FileVault
September 7, 2009
I enabled FileVault on my laptop today, and not really thinking about it selected the 'Secure Erase old home directory' option. While this is a good idea if you have really sensitive documents, I don't, and the time (not to mention abuse of the hard drive) is not worth it for me. Sadly there is no o…
Color Picking in OS X
August 25, 2009
Ever need to find out what a color on your screen is in hex or rgb? Anyone doing any kind of design work has probably run into this before, and there are things out there you can install to do this... But I just discovered that OS X has a tool for this built in, and it's really quite good!
It's cal…
Cached-find: Simple finder caching for ActiveRecord
August 5, 2009
When you have a high traffic app that is going to be repeatedly making the same requests that won't change a lot from the database, It's obviously a good idea to store these results in memory instead of hitting the database every time you need the data.
Rails provides some nice built in caching mec…
Epic biking in the South Chilcotin
July 14, 2009
Last weekend some friends and I packed into our cars and headed inland with our bikes in search of some good riding, and boy did we ever find it. We arrived at Tyaughton lake in the Spruce Lake park around midnight and setup a pretty quick camp for the night. In the morning we packed up and headed o…
AJAXify your Viviti Site
June 10, 2009
I recently noticed an interesting Viviti site that utilizes the built in jQuery and some simple JavaScript to make all the pages load via AJAX, and thought I'd quickly do a write up for anyone else using Viviti who would like to do the same thing.
Since the main content area of Viviti is inside a div…
Memcache Problems with Rails 2.3 and Litespeed or Passenger?
May 14, 2009
This week was a fun week of code spelunking.
Turns out, ActionController::Session::MemCacheStore runs through all the servers and checks to see if they are alive when the session store is first setup from your environment.rb. This causes it to connect to the Memcache server(s) and if you use a web …
Rails 2.3 count with named scope
April 29, 2009
There is a known bug in Rails 2.3 that is worth being aware of, count no longer works on anything using named_scope. There are some patches and a fix available in the ticket there and it looks like it will be resolved in the next version... but for now, beware!
also, I'm not sure when but somewhere …
BC Single Transferable Vote (BC-STV)
April 29, 2009
In 2005 we had a chance to change the way our electoral system works. It failed because when most people arrived to vote they didn't know what they were voting on. Even then, it was supported by 58% of the voters - but 60% or higher is required for it to pass. On may the 12th we get another chance a…
Mid Island Web Workers Group
January 21, 2009
Last night was the first meeting of the newly created Mid Island Web Workers Group at the Longwood Brewpub in Nanaimo. There were a lot of familiar faces as well as a bunch of new people, it was fun to meet some new people from the area. If anyone who reads this is living in the area, you should com…
Reality Check, Mr. Harper.
December 2, 2008
I'm getting sick of people calling what's going on in Canada Undemocratic. I'm looking at you, Harper.
What Harper does not seem to realize is that in the Canadian Parliamentary system, we do not vote for him, or his Government. We vote for local MP's who then we send to parliament. The Governor Gen…
Viviti enters Open Beta
December 1, 2008
We did it! Today marks the first day of open beta for Viviti, and we are pretty excited about it. Along with the open beta, Shawn did a great job on the new design for the front page so it looks pretty too. This is a personal milestone for all members of the team here as we've all put a lot into th…
Redesigned!
November 22, 2008
I've redesigned my blog again! I'm always open to feedback so if anyone thinks I missed anything or finds anything broken, let me know.. I've got a few small tweaks I want to do, but I think I'm mostly done. This is the second design I've done of nullcreations.net since it was moved to Viviti, and t…
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