A friend on mine tells the next story from his college days. Apart from being hilarious, I think it is a great example of why knowledge should not be marginalized but instead embraced. I preface this with: I’ve never been a hard-core programmer, certainly wasn’t Matthew Brokerick in War Games, but I had a trouble-maker’s…

Good news! As of Ubuntu 16.04 and linux kernel 4.5, there is no need to create a custom kernel for the SP3. Most things work right away except for the touch pad that needs to be enabled by editing the following file sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and adding this to the end Section “InputClass” Identifier “Surface…

Sometimes you need your rails engine/plugins helpers to work across the host app. An example of this is my Gem Paginas. I provide helper methods to generate menu links, since the menus can exist outside the scope of my gem, it was necessary to include these methods in the host app. It is quite simple…

I am using the plugin on a project and I kept having problems loading the editor on for the second time. The problems materialized in two different ways. On first page view the editor worked as intended, on second page viewed the editor did not show at all After trying to fix #1, on first…

So I was reading a new friend’s blog and found this article about object oriented js. I was already planning on writing one myself but he does a great job explaining the subject. Enjoy! Object Oriented Javascript Objects

Just finished and published this website at work I think it looks pretty good ddlab.net

Have you ever needed to see what a web color like #2a3f43 looks like? So did i that is why  I made this page Web color previewer just type the number in the preview box and you will get a box with the color you typed. If you input a new value the previous one…