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Updated ColumnComments Plugin (v.1.2)

over 5 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
Gerardo Lisboa recently enquired about the ColumnComments plugin, noting that comments can not be added to columns during the creating of a table (usually...

Olbermann to Rumsfeld: Who’s Side Are You On?

over 5 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
After reading and later listening to a speech by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, I felt for a brief moment a feeling that had lain dormant within me for a long...

Testimony of Programmer Clinton Curtis

over 5 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
In case there was any doubt that electronic voting machines are a “potential risk” to our democracy, listen to the testimony of Clinton Curtis...

How to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine

almost 6 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
For those of you familiar with the 2004 vote fraud in Ohio, this may not come as a surprise to you: a short instructive video on How to Hack a Diebold Voting...

How to Use cURL to Test RESTful Rails

almost 6 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
I’ve begun experimenting with the new Edge Rails code that includes built-in support for REST. (The code that was once in the simply_restful plugin...

Rails Plugins Directory at AgileWebDevelopment

almost 6 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
Benjamin Curtis has been seeding his Rails Plugins Directory project by taking announcements on the Rails list and documenting them on his website.  He...

FYI: C-SPAN to Broadcast 9/11 Panel Discussion

almost 6 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
C-SPAN will be broadcasting a panel discussion called “September 11th Terrorist Attacks” today (Saturday, July 29th) at 8:00 PM EDT. The panel...

Two Months Later

almost 6 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
It’s been almost two months since my last post, and that makes it about time I wrote again. I’ve been silent on this blog primarily for three...

DevBoi — Documentation in Your Browser

almost 6 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
This seems to have been around for a while, but I missed the announcement some months ago. It’s a cool little in-browser documentation package that...

Here, I Draw My Line in the Sand

almost 6 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
On July 4th of last year, I watched with pride as many veterans of the army and navy paraded through Center street of our City of Provo. For the first...