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So I’ve been learning Ruby on Rails the past few months but I’ve mostly been working on projects that already have the major underpinnings created. I’ve had the opportunity to work on a side project on and off and I’ve finally gotten one of my major hurdles accomplished and am pretty happy with how I did it. I’m open to code refinement, but I thought I’d share it since I couldn’t find much in the way of tutorials regarding flash.now with Rails via Google.

Essentially what I did was implement a way to update the regular flash and the flash.now values at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

So I spent an extra hour over the last few mornings (Thursday and Friday) as well as a half hour Friday night working on a small tweak to my current blog.  I added a “splat” image whenever you move your mouse over an icon at the top of the page.  I did this primarily as I kept losing my mouse when I’d use the icons and I wanted to more clearly distinguish where you were on the menu.

I also did it as I need to use similar code on a few other projects I’m working on, but this site was the most suitable for it to be implemented in first and it was one of those things I could leave and pick up fairly easily without a huge loss if I didn’t finish it all in one sitting.

As to the process I went through it was fairly simple once I figured out how to best do it. Read the rest of this entry »

What began as a simple goal of making my blog look better a few weeks ago became a sudden priority last night after being told that I won’t be employed with my current employer after this week essentially.  I need to put a good face forward and since my blog is the first thing that comes up when you Google my name, I decided to put in an all-nighter and get business taken care of.  

So thusly, welcome to my new theme for StevenHaddox.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Notice where this preview link goes through with the URL, and then notice what the page content is.

NOTE: If you are on Windows, I’d avoid this URL strongly (just in case).

http://preview.tinyurl.com/67lov7

I just had a friend tell me the other day that my blog would spit out an error when they tried to load it and die. Well I’ve had no problems on my system, or any other system I’ve been on. So I know it works in Firefox, Opera, and Safari. I also know it works on IE7 (sort of, some of the CSS / special effects aren’t quite right). But the functionality is there. This left one main culprit - you guessed it - IE6.

I booted up the dedicated VM (Virtual Machine) just for checking IE 6 and tried to load the page…. some weird error popup and death. WOOT! Read the rest of this entry »