words to live by

this quote really grabbed my attention

from the NOOP.NL blog; an article called '5 easy Questions for Ron Jeffries'

...look for the good in every moment, and love it, while avoiding the bad without hating it.

 - Ron Jeffries

easier said then done but definitely a goal worth pursuing.

Coding Cheat Sheets

This is for personal reference: some links to helpful Cheat Sheets for coding

• jquery 1.2 (posted 2007-12-23)
  
• jquery 1.2 (posted 2008-01-11)
• jquery 1.3 (posted 2009-03-10)
• subversion (posted 2008-08-07)
• mysql (posted 2007-04-??)
• To be continued...

Check out this is a great post - tons of links to good stuff

'Testing is Overrated' on InfoQ

This is a good presentation
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/francl-testing-overrated

just over 22 minutes and worth the watch; I had to take a screen capture of one of the slides about doing code reviews, just too funny

Dilbert Share Point Web Part

I have a love hate relationship with Microsoft Share Point. It has really good integration with Office products but also has a lot of irritating 'features'. Anyhow I knew there had to be a web part out there to get the latest Dilbert comic strip and after a quick Google search I found it!

http://www.nogeekleftbehind.com/2007/11/21/download-daily-dilbert-web-part-for-sharepoint/

no share point portal is complete without it!

Rails 2.1 and 2.2 documentation

This post is for personal reference, I keep losing track of the url to this great resource. Ruby on Rails guides at http://guides.rails.info/ I think this site launched when rails 2.1 came out, it is still a work in progress but is an extremely valuable resource covering everything from 'getting started', active record associations, security, debugging, the new 2.2 Rails Internationalization API and more.

Ruby on Rails guides at http://guides.rails.info/

Calling rake tasks from another rake task

This turns out to be pretty straight forward, but was not obvious

Rake::Task['task_name'].execute

A rake task to rebuild the development database

desc 'drop, create and rebuild development db'
task(:rebuild_development_db) do
  puts "drop the db"
  Rake::Task['db:drop'].execute 
  puts "create the db"
  Rake::Task['db:create'].execute
  puts "run the migrations"
  Rake::Task['db:migrate'].execute
  # do other stuff...
end

Resources

• http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-tutorial
• Pastie code sample Rake calling Rake