http://chrisolsen.org Fat models are hot...at least in MVC they are Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:04:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en EdmontonOnRails is back with a vengeance! There was a previous attempt at getting Edmonton Rails developers together that didn't make it too far, so hopefully things will be different this time around. The EdmontonOnRails site will be the place to keep up to date with news and upcoming events. If ... http://chrisolsen.org/2008/08/12/edmontononrails/ LeagueSmart is a web application that is designed to make creating league schedules and managing the stats as easy as pie. LeagueSmart is the upgrade of SoftballSmart, although the two will run in parallel for a while. LeagueSmart is no longer created for just softball leagues, but will work for any ... http://chrisolsen.org/2008/08/10/leaguesmart-soon-to-be-beta/ I am happy to announce the launch of Onlinelistings. The purpose of the site is to allow realtors to create professional web pages that are easy to use for them and their clients. This project was one that took a little longer than I initially estimated due to some factors outside ... http://chrisolsen.org/2008/08/10/onlinelistings-is-live/ I watched Scott's great screencast on Git and figured I should make use of the old server that I have sitting around. Unfortunately, my install didn't go as smoothly as Scott's, mostly because the Ubuntu server edition has a few less libraries than the developer edition. So to make things ... http://chrisolsen.org/2008/03/10/installing-git-on-ubuntu/ Tonight I was working away at a Tim Horton's, since it is a change from my normal working space (their coffee is really not very good), when I get a message on my cell phone from a friend. The message read "Uh-oh, you're in trouble", followed by a link. ... http://chrisolsen.org/2008/03/04/my-apologies/ Rails is a great framework and one that allows someone that is new to it get started quickly. I am sure there is many of us that remember the 15 minute blog tutorial, and I must admit, that seemed pretty damn cool the first time I saw it. ... http://chrisolsen.org/2008/02/15/rubyonrails-and-jquery/ Recently, there was a couple articles posted (here and here), regarding how long it takes for a person to become familiar with a toolset. In light of these articles I found this job advertisement today and thought it was rather amusing. Qualifications: A thorough understanding of ASP.NET (or a similar ... http://chrisolsen.org/2008/02/09/learn-rubyonrails-in-30-minutes/ Nothing beats some nice charts to dazzle your clients. I guess this is another addition to a couple of previous posts that go over various charting tools that can be found here and here. If you haven't checked out Google Charts go here to check out the API. To use ... http://chrisolsen.org/2008/01/26/google-charts-with-rails/ 8 errors prohibited this account from being saved There were problems with the following fields: ... Maybe it is just me, but having error messages like the above seems a little to artificial to me. Maybe rails has standard error messages like the following so everybody changes them, who knows. One ... http://chrisolsen.org/2008/01/25/custom-validation-messages/ On a recent trip to Mexico I went skydiving for the first time and it was most amazing thing. I can honestly say that if I was a heroin junkie I would give it all up for a few skydives. Here's the video Sky Diving from chris olsen on Vimeo. http://chrisolsen.org/2008/01/25/skydiving/