http://www.blursoft.com/blog Coding and Life at Blursoft Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I swear not a day goes by that I find some drawback on any given system. I switch back and forth between linux and windows these days mostly. Linux for all the servers, XP SP2 for most of the workstations, linux again on my laptop. And then ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2007/10/the-perfect-dev-environment/ We're again accepting signups for people who want to test MetaForum on our freely hosted servers. http://www.blursoft.com/metaForum/ There's a caveat this time, namely being that you need to provide an actual reason for wanting one. Before we just let anyone and their brother sign up, and 98% of the signups were ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2007/05/free-hosting-has-been-re-opened/ Because of the nature of AJAX applications, and the fact that the server can send down data to the client without the client initiating anything, often times updates go unnoticed. I suppose its a force of habit -- why would a page change, if we're not looking at it? When ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2007/02/how-to-determine-user-focus/ I took a bit of a break from MetaForum development today to do something a bit different. I've been wanting to dig into the google maps API for a while now just to see what she's like, so I whipped up a quick mashup that lets any group, organization, ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2007/02/wherr-you-at/ A particular project I'm working on requires graying out options in a drop down box. I discovered the disabled attribute, which can be used as follows: last 7 last 30 last 60 Normally you can just write 'disabled', but to be ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2006/12/html-option-disabled-attribute/ Inheritance using Additionally, the use of => in Ruby hashes is really nice. When I see something like: redirect_to :action => "list" I see an arrow pointing to list, which is where I want that to go. Even in a plain old hash definition the => works well by basically ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2006/12/beauty-in-ruby-syntax/ I've gone years without knowing this. I can do pretty much what I need to do with Vim, but while hacking some Python recently I realized I'd really like to have the ability to select a block of text and repeatedly indent or unindent it. Visual Studio and ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2006/12/quick-vim-tip-indenting-and-unindenting-a-block-of-text/ From time to time it's nice to take a break from the high-level, web-centric stuff we do and just try for the old CS classics. For example, here's mergesort in C. Not guaranteed to be fool-proof, but a cursory run tells me it's working. Leave comments if ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2006/11/mergesort-linked-lists-c/ So after putting up a notice a couple weeks ago that we were going to start charging a $4.95 "setup fee" for new forums, signup requests all but disappeared. We still had a few people request it anyway without paying, and we had one single person actually send us the ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2006/11/price-points-are-tricky/ Today was a momentous day here at blursoft. Our Google AdSense account has hit $101.84. So sometime in the next 4 to 6 weeks, Google will be cutting us a check. Only took what, 11 months of devoting all of our free time to hacking? Not too bad. ... http://www.blursoft.com/blog/2006/11/thanks-for-the-b-note-google/