With the tariffs levied by the Trump administration and the maintained by the Biden administration, it seemed to me that the American philosophy with China of engagement to further democracy had quietly undergone a bipartisan change. I realized I knew very little about post WWII China that wasn’t vaguely related to movies. I had no […]
Continue ReadingToday I was working on an pdf.erb view template in rails. In this case, I wanted to add into the PDF some images that we stored in cloudinary. My first instinct was to use the image tag that’s part of the cloudinary gem: However, the image would not display. Since I’ve rendered images in other […]
Continue ReadingI was configuring a Netgear switch today and having trouble getting everything working. Having only worked with Cisco folks and switches previously, I was completely unaware of the PVID setting until I read the Netgear helpdoc on setting a trunk port. I got everything working but still wasn’t clear until I read Jason Doolittle’s article. […]
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When writing a Rails app I love polymorphic relations. If there’s a good chance I can reuse a model with other objects and I can’t make it a PORO (plain old Ruby object), my relation of choice is likely to be a polymorphic one. Once challenge with polymorphism is documenting the interface future objects will […]
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I’ve been working on a Ruby program and had received a new version of an API to interface with. The new version had moved from GET requests to POST requests, so where before I was getting information with:
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I’ve recently had two instances where I’d create a form: but when I look in my browser, no form tags have been created!
Continue ReadingI was in a discussion recently where the topic of Title IX came up. This is an innocent enough topic normally, but one of the people in the conversation was someone who had a sports management major and, clearly sometime during their education, had been told about a lot of the negative sides. In essence […]
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The open source Visual Town Budget is a great visualization tool that can be used to help your staff, council, or the public more easily see how the budget stacks up. I wanted to get it running locally on my laptop first so I could get the date working before posting it up for staff […]
Continue ReadingI was writing a SQL query to pull data from an existing vendor database into a report. Instead of just ‘dbo.users’ having an ‘id’ column, they normally named the primary key ‘user_id’. While we can argue about the semantics, it had a nice effect that I could search for the column name across the entire […]
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