http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress Outdated Thoughts Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:43:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last weekend I brewed up a 5 gallon batch of my first belgian style ale. This is an extract recipe with a small amount of specialty grains. The BJCP describes this style as "A moderate-strength golden ale that has a subtle Belgian complexity, slightly sweet flavor, and dry finish." I am ... http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/belgian-blond-ale/ While reviewing some of the JQuery tutorials, I was impressed with the ease of setting up a table with alternating row colors. This got me thinking that it should be a relatively easy thing to achieve using the Prototype library as well. In this edition, I will give quick example of ... http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/easy-zebra-striping-with-prototype/ Vim is an incredibly flexible text editor. I continue to be surprised by the number of strange things it's capable of doing. For example, there is a crude Tetris clone available for Vim. A bit more useful, though, is the cvsmenu script for Vim. This is a fairly polished plug-in that ... http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/cvs-shortcuts-in-vim/ A recent article on the socialthing! blog made me curious about setting up a site specific browser in Ubuntu. This is a pretty simple thing to accomplish and it beats the heck out of the currently available Ubuntu twitter clients. Start by installing the prism package. компютриsudo aptitude install prism You can then setup ... http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/socialthing-and-prism-on-ubuntu/ A while ago I fixed some obscure bugs in one of the search results pages of an enterprise application that I work on. I spent about four hours of focused development time refactoring and cleaning up some of the logic that handles the rendering and paging of the results. The ... http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/code-duplication/ I was just reading the Ubuntu development process documentation. In particular the document on Time Based Releases. I think they really hit the nail on the head with this one. This quote caught my attention: The overall quality and punctuality of an Ubuntu release are more important than any single feature, and ... http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/time-based-releases/ I just finished my second batch of home-brew. This one was a Porter that turned out to be pretty delicious. I've posted a few pictures. And for those who are interested, I've also posted the recipe. http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/home-brew-batch-2/ On Tuesday, Eclipse told me it had updates (3.3.2) available. For the next three days I got 404/503 errors from the mirror sites it tried to use. I finally got it updated today and learned that they fixed whatever was keeping DBEdit from working. So if Eclipse's Database Development views annoy ... http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/guest-post-eclipse-332-and-dbedit/ I have had quite a tough time trying to get my ancient nvidia graphics card to work to it's full potential after upgrading to Gutsy. My graphics card as reported by lspci is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) After trying to use the 'Screen ... http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/gutsy-and-the-nv11-geforce2-mxmx-400/ I've gotten tired of being presented with the default nano text editor every time I go to write a subversion commit comment or when I run visudo. So I finally figured out how to change the default text editor from nano. % sudo update-alternatives --config editor I personally prefer good old vim! http://casedogdesigns.com/wordpress/changing-default-ubuntu-editor/