Category Archives: Coding

4 Uses For My G1 Android Phone I hadn’t Planned On

By Chris | Published: 9/12/2009
So, I took the plunge and got a T-Mobile GI phone with Googles Android operating system. I really like it – I am a big Google tools user, so it integrates well with what I am already doing day-to-day. I expected PDA functionality and the maps seems cool, but I hadn’t planned on some of [...]
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timekpr Grows Up ( or “Why I Love Open Source” )

By Chris | Published: 9/28/2008
Back in February, I had the need to limit the amount of time my kids spent on a shared Ubuntu box. I cobbled together a simple script that would give a warning then shutdown the user session. It worked for me (made my kids unhappy, tho’), but I knew it could be better. Dispite my [...]
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Rails Tag Helper default values

By Chris | Published: 7/23/2008
I was tooling through a form setting text_field sizes ( the default of :size => 30 is a bit big for me ) and my “cut-n-paste is bad” alarm when off. There had to be a better way to set the form tag defaults. A few minutes on Google and Noobkit provided an answer: InstanceTag::DEFAULT_* For instance, ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag::DEFAULT_FIELD_OPTIONS [...]
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12 Step Program for Ubuntu Update-Manager Addicts

By Chris | Published: 4/19/2008
Hi, my name is Chris. I am Ubuntu update-manager addict. I began innocently enough, sometime back in Febuary, I ran ‘update-manager -d‘ to get a peek at Unbuntu Hardy Heron. Since that time I have been unable to resist the little orange “Updates Available” icon. Checking two or three times a day for improved progams, bug fixes, [...]
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How to Limit Daily Desktop Usage in Ubuntu

By Chris | Published: 2/3/2008
UPDATE: This still gets a lot of hits from StumbleUpon and UbuntuForums, but if you are really interested in limiting your kids computer time on Ubuntu, check out Timekpr at https://launchpad.net/timekpr/ The guys there have done a great job of taking my nasty little script and turning it into a real application. About the only [...]
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