A friend asked me for advice about his toddler’s impending soccer “career”. After thinking about it, here’s what I came up with: My only advice is, whatever you do, find the best coach you can. It makes all the difference. 99% of coaches don’t know jack and their “coaching” is actually detrimental to your kid’s […]
So I went to watch some other teams from our club play this past weekend. I thought (hoped?) maybe it was just my kid’s team and coach that played American kickball. I was curious to learn if there was any good soccer being played elsewhere, perhaps a coach teaching possession, or maybe if I was […]
It started with one pass, when my kid was six years old. From the right sideline, with barely a glance, Sam I Am caressed a perfectly threaded diagonal through ball from beyond midfield, landing sweetly on the striker’s foot. The striker promptly toe punched it to the next field, but the seed was sown. It […]
A user requests the ability to browse and insert links to nodes (pages) from the WYSIWYG editor, similar to how it works for uploaded files. A quick google search returns TinyMCE Node Picker which sounds perfect. Oh, wait … This module will de discontinued and replaced with Node Picker as soon as a stable release […]
Endeavoring to be more of a producer than a consumer, ran across Project Euler which looks to be low friction but somewhat useful and interesting. Unfortunately their register/login system is broken: Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/admin/domains/projecteuler.net/public_html/includes/login_preprocess.php on line 11 So I’ll keep track on my own blog I guess […]
Soldiering on with Aptana, fighting as I go, here’s how I was able to set up automatic synchronization between my project and a remote server accessed through a mounted/mapped drive. Set up your project Set up your remote preview server Set up an (S)FTP deployment connection, make sure you check “Automatically sync my changes” Go […]
At work we are stuck with Subversion 1.4 clients (cough, Dreamweaver, ahem), so any new IDE I try has to use the SVN 1.4 api and format. Every 6 months or so I like to test drive IDEs, but most new editors and IDEs long ago gave up support for SVN 1.4 (except for PHPStorm, […]
Playing around with Ruby, Rails, RefineryCMS… anything installed? ~ $ which ruby nope, ok… ~ $ sudo apt-get install ruby The following NEW packages will be installed: libreadline5 libruby1.8 ruby ruby1.8 hmm, ruby 1.8? let’s try to get the current version, 1.9.2 just for grins… ~ $ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.2-full nothing. hmmm, refinerycms.com suggests […]