tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123821192009-02-21T12:01:14.107-05:00This is a place for me to post my thoughts, activites, and interests.Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1118176342955001982005-06-07T16:23:00.000-04:002005-06-07T16:32:22.960-04:00

I was recently trying to import my Rails Day application into Subversion on TextDrive's servers. I already had the application running on one of the domains, and I wanted it to be easier to make changes to. So I setup a repository for it: FSFS of course. I import it in by logging in to SSH and making an import with the stuff that is already there. One thing I don't like about Subversion is that

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1118172651115803252005-06-07T15:30:00.000-04:002005-06-07T15:30:51.136-04:00

You can view my application at http://blocparty.org.

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I have loved Instiki since I discovered it, and I have only just begun to discover the possibilities with it. I have a copy installed on my local system that I am now using to manage my projects. It's easy to create pages and get my thoughts organized. It is by far the simplest wiki I have ever seen, and that is what makes it so flexible. Now I love Basecamp for projects that need

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1117284706523522792005-05-28T08:51:00.000-04:002005-05-28T08:51:46.533-04:00

I have decided to enter in the Rails Day competition. It's June 4th, and is basically just a competition to see who can build the best application in Ruby on Rails within 24 hours. I'm not revealing my idea to everybody, but I do hope I win, or at least come close. There are so many cool prizes, my favorites being a lifetime subscription to Basecamp Basic and an Apple Mac Mini. Good

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1116867433958282842005-05-23T12:53:00.000-04:002005-05-23T12:57:13.963-04:00

Anybody who hasn't signed up on freeminimacs.com, a new site from the people who brought you freeipods.com, help me get a Mac mini! Just sign up at the link below and complete one offer. Most of them are free, and you only have to do one. Napster is pretty cool. Just be sure to use the link I post: http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=18535324

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Well, it's the last week of school. That means finals are coming up Thursday and Friday. I have so much to do to prepare. I need to make an outline, create a notes sheet, plus my normal homework. Thankfully, I'm exempting one of my finals, so I'll actually get to leave school at 10:10 on Friday. What's the point of going if I'm leaving two hours later? Well, I have to or else I'll fail

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1115684951330727482005-05-09T20:29:00.000-04:002005-05-09T20:29:11.360-04:00

When I got home from school today there was a package on my doorstep. I opened it and behold: there was my Mac OS X Tiger box. Almost immediately I opened it and commenced installation. I decided to first install it on a separate partition to make sure it worked first. So I erased my Ubuntu Linux installation as I never used it much anyway. Tiger installed just fine. After I had it

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1115554724998908192005-05-08T08:18:00.000-04:002005-05-08T08:18:45.013-04:00

With the newest version of QuickTime, Apple has still made you pay $30 for the Pro version. One of the things you can't do in the normal version is the fancy new full-screen mode with controls. The ability to do this is there, it just hasn't been unlocked in the player. However, there is an AppleScript that will show whatever movie you're playing in full-screen mode:tell application "

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1115552436962570232005-05-08T07:40:00.000-04:002005-05-08T07:40:36.980-04:00

Not that much longer though. My mother told me yesterday morning that she was paying for Tiger for me as a birthday gift. I love the idea of not having to pay for it, but this also means I have to wait a few more days 'till my birthday on May 12.On the other hand, I did get one present yesterday from my grandparents. It's a new Acer flat-screen LCD 17" monitor! This thing is awesome, and it

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That's right! Mac OS X Tiger has been released and I have just placed an order. I can't wait! I'm so excited about Spotlight, Dashboard, the new Mail (ugly buttons and all), and Safari RSS. I'm so glad that Apple has decided to take features that once required third-party applications (Quiksilver, Konfabulator, NetNewsWire) and integrated them into the operating system.In addition, they

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1115068811900054922005-05-02T17:20:00.000-04:002005-05-02T17:20:11.900-04:00

Ever since I got a Mac, I've used CocoaMySQL as a client for MySQL. However, I haven't seen a new version in the year that I've had my iBook. But now a fellow Rails developer has posted about a new application: YourSQL. I like the interface even better too.

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1114871240809963522005-04-30T10:27:00.000-04:002005-04-30T10:32:36.856-04:00

In relation with my previous post, I want to say a few words about why I love using a Mac. For the Bakies, I volunteered to edit my group's movie. I planned to use iMovie, a very nice program that came with my Mac. It was amazingly easy. If you compare the two movie editing programs that come with Windows and Mac OS X (Windows Movie Maker and iMovie, respectively), there is no competition:

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1114862798108439502005-04-30T08:06:00.000-04:002005-04-30T08:06:38.106-04:00

In world geography, there is a project that everyone does each semester: it's called the Bakies. You work in groups to create a movie about a specific event or person in history. I'm working in a group of 9 people creating a movie about the assassination at sarajevo. Not the best idea! It is absolutely impossible to get a group of 9 together to film. However, we've gotten everything filmed now

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1114389502888341582005-04-24T20:38:00.000-04:002005-04-24T20:38:22.890-04:00

Here is an early snapshot of the Prologue administration area: http://blocparty.org/prologue.pdf. The layout is done in pure CSS and XHTML, and it validates! It took a good deal of work in order to make sure I didn't use anything that would conflict with IE. However, there is a slight problem with a border in IE5, but I say to hell with bad browsers. The nice thing is I didn't have to mess with

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1114278551927330532005-04-23T13:49:00.000-04:002005-04-23T13:49:11.926-04:00

I'm creating a new project with Ruby on Rails: Prologue. It's a CMS on Rails, meant to provide power and simplicity at the same time. I'm currently working on a design for the administration area, which I want to be stunning, as I am not fond of using applications that look ugly (I am, after all, a Mac user). I'm using OmniGraffle, which is excellent, to get a feel for how I want it to look.

Matt Moriarityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377113297221753976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12382119.post-1114277338329350052005-04-23T13:17:00.000-04:002005-04-23T13:28:58.330-04:00

When signing up for a Blogger account, I found that all the halfway decent URLs for Blogspot.com are taken. They need to get some separate ones or something and let the user choose. I tried all kinds of different URLs and most were taken. The last one I tried was nogoodurls.blogspot.com. You can probably see why I picked that one. I plan to use this blog to post about my life and things I find

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