attics of my life

The Prem starts Saturday. Go Reds.

I don't have to watch reruns of old games or MLS.

Last weekend, my wife and I talk a trip to the Shambhala Mountain Center to see The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya. What an amazing place.

Photos are here.

I setup a tumblelog over at Tumblr. Interesting service. I'm at jimi.tumblr.com

It's mostly economics and personal finance.

After the news of Authorize.net Recurring Billing API yesterday. Today I also found some sample code for using in Ruby applications for integration into ARB.

You can get it at: http://developer.authorize.net/samplecode/

I needed to retrieve geocodes from Google for a couple of new projects that are coming up so I sat down and made a plugin of it.

It takes an address, gets the lat and long from google and adds them to the database.

SVN Repository is here:

http://plugins.mosaicglobe.org/svn/trunk/acts_as_geocode/

I just put up a handful of pix from the blizzard of 06, here. Hopefully, I'll be able to get out of the house this afternoon and get some more.

Having never attended college at my age, I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up. I am starting college in the Spring Semester to study for a BSA in Economics. Funny, I do web development for a living, phototgraphy for a hobby, and I pick the "dismal science" for my undergraduate degree.

"Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." The snow started early this morning in CO and we are supposed to get up to 24" in the next day or two. And with no potential for temps over 40 degrees it looks like it will stick around til next Monday. Yippeee!!!!

Later this afternoon SM and I will be venturing out in snow gear to take some pix of the snow and Christmas lights. I'll try to get them posted before the actual day for everyone to enjoy.

I hope everyone is having a great holiday season.

Just in case anyone else ever has to do this.

I had a project that required me to move from MySQL to SQLServer 2005 and thought that I would use backup.rake from tobi to dump the data and import it back in to SQL Server.

During this I ran into an identity insert problem with SQL Server. The fix is to change the backup.rake file to set identity insert on and off for each table. Like this for insert:

if ActiveRecord::Base.connection.adapter_name == "SQLServer"
  ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute "SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.#{tbl} ON"
end

Not being a SQL Server guy, I don't know why you have to include the "dbo.#{tbl}" but you do, "#{tbl}" didn't work.

Another thing I noticed in going to RubyDBI from MySQL is that if you are using text columns set them to default to NULL. See this bug report for RubyDBI for details.

I just added a new photo blog where I'll be posting stuff photography related to let the audiences choose.