http://zakscott.com Vermont Web Developer Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:21:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en select(:user, :state, [ ['Select a State', 'None'], ['Alabama', 'AL'], ['Alaska', 'AK'], ['Arizona', 'AZ'], ['Arkansas', 'AR'], ['California', 'CA'], ['Colorado', 'CO'], ['Connecticut', 'CT'], ['Delaware', 'DE'], ['District Of Columbia', 'DC'], ['Florida', 'FL'], ['Georgia', 'GA'], ['Hawaii', 'HI'], ['Idaho', 'ID'], ['Illinois', 'IL'], ['Indiana', 'IN'], ['Iowa', 'IA'], ['Kansas', 'KS'], ['Kentucky', 'KY'], ['Louisiana', 'LA'], ['Maine', 'ME'], ['Maryland', 'MD'], ['Massachusetts', 'MA'], ['Michigan', 'MI'], ['Minnesota', 'MN'], ['Mississippi', 'MS'], ['Missouri', 'MO'], ['Montana', 'MT'], ['Nebraska', 'NE'], ['Nevada', 'NV'], ['New Hampshire', 'NH'], ['New Jersey', 'NJ'], ['New Mexico', 'NM'], ['New York', 'NY'], ['North Carolina', 'NC'], ['North Dakota', 'ND'], ['Ohio', 'OH'], ['Oklahoma', ... http://zakscott.com/rails-us-state-select/ UPDATE There is an existing theme that is very similar to the Dark room theme, available for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Check it out, Shiki-colors. Good news, as the next release of Ubuntu (8.10) is going to be packaged with an optional theme to please the eyes. The default theme will still be ... http://zakscott.com/intrepid-ibex-to-have-optional-dark-room-theme/ For the last month or so I've been using the GL Matrix screensaver built into Gnome as my desktop background, and I'm probably not ever going back to a standard background. Other then the fact that it only takes up 10~15 megabytes to run, it doubles as a screensaver. Finding ... http://zakscott.com/opengl-matrix-as-desktop-background/ At one time or another, you will most likely want your application to set-up with some preliminary data. One common example is a settings or options table within your database, or a default admin user that will be created upon install. To get this done, is actually a lot easier then ... http://zakscott.com/preliminary-data-with-migrations-in-rails/ Adding sessions into the database is a great way to speed up your application, and it's very easy to do in Rails 2.x. It can be done in the following, 3 easy, steps: rake db:sessions:create rake db:migrate Now go into config/environment.rb and uncomment the following line: # Use the database for sessions instead of ... http://zakscott.com/put-sessions-into-database-with-rails/ For one of my current projects I'm going to be writing a custom email class that will both send and receive email from an external/internal mail server. In order to make the module ultra-portable I'm going to be using an SMTP connection to take care of both tasks. Right now I'm ... http://zakscott.com/connecting-to-an-smtp-server-using-classsmtpphp/ ls -a /girls | grep 'chill' http://zakscott.com/girls/ Came upon this rather slick geocode class written in PHP5 for use with google maps. Thought I would share it. http://zakscott.com/geocode-class/ Just fixed the weird spacing on the p tag within posts, and commentlist list-style-position to outside. Should help clean things up a bit. http://zakscott.com/paragraph-breaks-commentlist/ if($blog->lastUpdate > '2 months') { echo 'DUDE WTF'; else { echo 'n_n'; } http://zakscott.com/blog/