Ancient greeks on Memorial Day

Posted by Gregg on June 1, 2011 in Imagine if this stuff was lost in the dirt, Inspiration

Like many Americans it is often non until the flags of memorial day catch breeze that my thoughts turn to those who have risked and given all so that I can enjoy my many freedoms and rest easy in the thought that my children will live and die under the same flag and in similar [...]

Technology vs. Creativity

Posted by Gregg on October 14, 2010 in Random Thought

I perceive technology and creativity as very reciprocal. Both pushing the other further and broader through our(humans as a whole) spacial and temporal existence. i.e.. Technology empowers and inspires the creative, not always with what is there but often by what is lacking. The creative pushes technology to it’s brink where it either dies a [...]

Adding Vimeo/Youtube iframe embed to CKeditor

Posted by Gregg on October 13, 2010 in boring code, Design

I am in the middle of building a few apps that rely on a text editor and after much research I decided on using CKEditor, a beautiful, well supported WYSIWYG. Within our organization we use video hosted on Vimeo to stream our media as it is both an awesome and cost effective service. The rub [...]

Science and Religion

Posted by gturnbul on July 19, 2010 in Entertaining Me is Easy

I do appreciate this quote: “Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt” Jeffrey Satinover It just seems that nearly half of the world cling to axioms of the past and almost all the rest snicker at the latter, celebrating nothingness. A slim group that falls in [...]

James Earl Jones reading the Raven FTW

Posted by Gregg on May 22, 2010 in Entertaining Me is Easy

So the kids love bed time stories and I still pull out the Seuss, Hippos, Sendak, etc, but now the older 2 kiddos are craving a bit more notoriety in their slumber story. They have become fans of Aesop and the Grimms. I have also been mixing in some poems and a while back we ran across [...]

‘Humpback’ is the Weekend at Bernie’s of the One Thousand and One Nights

Posted by Gregg on May 20, 2010 in Entertaining Me is Easy

Just read the Humpback, a short story in ‘The thousand and one nights: or, The Arabian night’s entertainments, Volume 1′ to my kiddos as a bed time story. The crazy stuff I read to my kids, I know… Weekend at Bernie’s of the Arabian world.  Also trying out embedding Google books in a post.

Post Mother’s day Twitter banter

Posted by Gregg on May 10, 2010 in Random Thought

Text Replacement… Without Flash

Posted by Gregg on May 7, 2010 in Design

I always dreaded creating image headers for websites, but always saw the headers as the perfect place to add style and tie the content to the design. Then along came SiFR(www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr). I could now embed font in flash and use java script to call upon all the font, and css to provide additional style. Life [...]

Find pesky duplicates in mysql

Posted by gturnbul on December 14, 2009 in boring code

Let’s say you had an app that had a ton of users and were suspicious that there were pesky duplicates. Here is a quick mysql select to help put your mind at ease. select username,count(*) as n from users group by username having n > 1; or search by first and last name: select concat(firstname,’ [...]

Getting observe_field to update a text_field in Rails

Posted by Gregg on November 13, 2009 in Adventures on the Rails

I am writing this post as I scoured page after page with out luck and came up with this solution.  Others may already be all over this method or have more eloquent solutions but there people didn’t have their content search engine optimized.  So for those in need here ya go. I have used observe_field [...]

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