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RailsConf 2007

May 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Some quick thoughts on RailsConf 2007:

  • the overwhelming thing is that I think it’s a shame that we can’t have a conference for geeks without degrading to the basest forms of entertainment
    • I realize I can’t impose my morality on anyone else, but uses of absolutely inane four-letter words is completely unnecessary.  Why can’t we keep a level of profressional-ism?
    • In general I tip my hats off to the organizers (it’s quite a job to do that) but was it really necessary to have the lewd marching band on Saturday? (For those of you who saw it, you know what I am talking about — for those of you who didn’t, it isn’t becoming of me to describe it in any more detail.)
  • The talks were generally good, more details to come…
  • Avi Bryant’s Keynote on Thursday night was stirring, but I think some folks just didn’t get it.
  • More to come…

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Javascript: Get number of months between two dates

April 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
  1. function monthsBetween(thisDate, thatDate) {
  2. if (thisDate> thatDate) {
  3. return monthsBetween(thatDate, thisDate);
  4. }
  5.  
  6. var number = 0;
  7. if (thatDate.getFullYear()> thisDate.getFullYear()) {
  8. number = number + (thatDate.getFullYear() - thisDate.getFullYear() - 1) * 12;
  9. } else {
  10. return thatDate.getMonth() - thisDate.getMonth();
  11. }
  12.  
  13. if (thatDate.getMonth()> thisDate.getMonth()) {
  14. number = number + 12 + thatDate.getMonth() - thisDate.getMonth();
  15. } else {
  16. number = number + (12 - thisDate.getMonth()) + thatDate.getMonth();
  17. }
  18. return number;
  19. }

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Concerning the Rapture

February 15th, 2007 · No Comments

I have posted here some quotes concerning the Rapture...

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Rails plugin for ViM

January 9th, 2007 · No Comments

This is a webcast showing the use of the rails.vim plugin that enables shortcuts in Vim for Rails. Some of the functionality (specifically command completion via CTRL+X CTRL+U) is only available with > Vim 7.0.

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‘Spirit and Life’ or ‘Condemnation’

December 12th, 2006 · No Comments

The Lord Jesus said: "...the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life." (John 6:63) So why is it that so many people are condemned by the Word of God (especially what I call Old Testament Christians (the New Testament is a testament of G R A C E -- you do the math))?

1 Corinthians 15:56 says, "The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law." The law can be summed up as anything you or I do of our own volition/power. I believe so many people are condemned by the Word of God because to them it is not much more (if any bit more) than a set of do's and don'ts -- a law, instead of Spirit and Life. Rule-keeping does not glorify God, it glorifies man's ability to "do for himself."

As you live your life in obligation to God you strengthen sin in your life. Thus it is imperative that a man live by faith and grace, which of course we cannot do ourselves. If you find yourself in such a state that you are not living by grace (Galatians 2:20) look to God today for the grace to be made His child! Anyone who seeks will find him. Those who knock at His door will be invited in. All who ask anything of God in order to glorify Him in their lives will be answered.

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