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About warwick

I manage a team of professional technical consultants for a Fortune 100 company. I like clever uses of technology whether it's in a data center or the kitchen of my house.

Proper Rails Routing is Very Rewarding

Programming, Software

Redirects work easily in Rails. Modify the routes.rb file and the application can process it’s own redirects without messing with the server’s config files. This is handy for situations like my [wife’s business website](http://redbeedesigns.com) where her old content and URLs need to be preserved while the new stuff is being built.

Example: http://redbeedesigns.com/about and http://redbeedesigns.com/about.html look the same because the are exactly the same content generated exactly the same way.

Again, nothing new to a profession web developer, but gratifying nonetheless.

Tonight, time permitting, we’ll do some database work with the “[shop](http://redbeedesigns.com/shop)” page.

Zarah, the Race Training Overlord

Running

So I agreed in June to be in a mini-triathlon in August. We’re coming up on a month away from the start and it’s time to crack the whip. Race Training Overlord [Zarah](http://beautyschooldropout.net) sent me the training schedule that she and [Matt](http://kerner.net) use and it’s a knee-buster.

Thursday morning is a BRICK (bike followed by run) which should tell me if I can really pull this off. I’m doing the triathlon no matter what–it’s not like I’ll win or place or anything–because the goal is more important right now than the result.

Layouts in Rails Complete

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I finished a bit of a milestone today with my [wife’s website](http://redbeedesigns.com). It’s now completely in the Rails framework of code! Each of the pages looks the same as it did a week or so ago, but now they use a common template and the HTML is built at the time of the request. Take a look at the bottom of the page–a simple Ruby “Time.now” command returns the time the page was rendered.

It’s not earth-shattering since things like this have existed for years. It just means that I made something hard look the same as something easy and sometimes, that’s the hardest thing of all.

Red Bee Designs is on revision 65

Programming

It’s only taken 65 revisions to get me to a slightly new [Red Bee Designs](http://redbeedesigns.com). It’s using a Flickr slideshow instead of an older custom job, mainly because it’s easier and has more features. It lets Tammy add new content faster until the main database comes up–that’s happening this weekend. I also changed Tammy’s photo to be more recent since the last one was two years old.

Two other artists have expressed interest in the core application and site design. I’ll talk to Tammy and see how she wants to license it. I’m thinking of charging per instance and for updates separately. Thoughts?

~stevenf: The Official stevenf iPhone Review

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stevenf: “Finally, whoever invented the ‘magnifying glass’ interface for setting the text cursor position ought to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. I can’t tell you how many hours of my life I’ve wasted tapping at a screen trying to get the text cursor to go exactly in-between those two letters right there NO NOT OVER THERE DAMN IT.”