Category Archives: Computing

Rails’s DB-Insensitive Case Insensitivity

Posted on 2011 March 22 by Dibson Hoffweiler

I’ve been working with Rails for the past few weeks. But seriously, folks, it’s been great. Anyway, what are we all here for? To hear about my first big trouble with Rails. We had a simple request at work to … Continue reading →

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Hard drive backups

Posted on 2010 December 2 by Dibson Hoffweiler

My reliable-so-far computer has been making a “tick tick” sound in the fan recently. I’ve never been one to keep backups of my personal work, but doing freelance work for the past year and a half has made me a … Continue reading →

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Sort Criteria not used in Drupal View

Posted on 2010 June 30 by Dibson Hoffweiler

I was having trouble with the Drupal Views module. I have a view of a CCK Node, and I wanted to sort the view by one of the CCK data fields. The view was sorting on node id by default. … Continue reading →

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Multiple Images for Ubercart Products

Posted on 2010 June 25 by Dibson Hoffweiler

I’m working on a Drupal site with the Ubercart package. I’m learning both at the same time, which is a challenge since they each offer so many options. Below I’ve listed some troubles I came across while I fighting to … Continue reading →

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Sierpinski’s Carpet Animation

Posted on 2009 November 19 by Dibson Hoffweiler

A few weeks ago I wrote a little script (code below the fold) to generate the frames of the following animation. It’s an animation of different iterations of Sierpinski’s Carpet. To generate the carpet, take a square. Divide it into … Continue reading →

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