http://burm.net John Burmeister's Blog Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:49:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Acts As Taggable On Steroids is a great plugin for Rails that makes adding tags to your application quick and easy. Check it out on github here => http://github.com/mattetti/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids/tree/master I threw this post together with some notes that I took along the way when setting up the plugin for use. ... http://burm.net/2008/10/08/acts-as-taggable-on-steroids-ruby-on-rails-plugin-with-paginate/ I used Paperclip for my latest project, and I figured I would give a brief tutorial on how to use it. Paperclip - Paperclip is intended as an easy file attachment library for ActiveRecord. The intent behind it was to keep setup as easy as possible and to treat files as ... http://burm.net/2008/10/07/the-ruby-on-rails-paperclip-plugin-tutorial-easy-image-attachments-ror/ I am currently working on an interesting project for a customer of mine.   Hopefully I'll be able to share more of the details with you all when the project is near completion.  The project involves creating events, parsing and caching RSS feeds, generating RSS feeds, as well as Emailing and ... http://burm.net/2008/10/06/a-few-great-plugins-that-i-am-using-in-my-current-ruby-on-rails-project/ Just got our confirmations for Myrtle Beach this year! Last year was a blast, looking forward to this year. Here is a pic from last year... Here are the tee times for your golf group. 11/5 Myrtle Beach National West 11/6 Waterway Hills 11/6 Witch 11/7 Aberdeen CC 11/8 Kings ... http://burm.net/2008/10/06/golf-myrtle-beach-trip-november-2008/ EDITalk.com is one of my side projects, and I'd figure I'd post about it here on my blog. The EDI Talk Blog and Forums have gone through some major changes in the last week.  We have invested in an amazing community software which includes forums / discussions, social groups, buddy lists, ... http://burm.net/2008/10/06/editalk-launched-new-blog-logo-and-forums/ Here is how our kitchen and dining room came out. This is the buffet table we did in the dining room, we did a glass tile counter top for it b/c of the leftover tile from the backsplash in the kitchen. This is the guest room I just (almost) finished yesterday, just need a ... http://burm.net/2008/08/28/some-updated-house-pictures-guest-room-pond-and-garage-2/ Here are some new pictures of the outside, the grass is coming in really good.  I just finished putting down some fertilizer / grub and insect killer.  Central Air unit / install is going to happen this Tuesday, I am excited!  We ran the 40 Amp line outside into a ... http://burm.net/2008/06/21/some-new-pictures-of-the-outside-grass-is-coming-in-strong/ Here are some before, during and after shots of the landscaping. We did a simple design for the front, and are planning on adding another layer or two of the brick to finish it off. We just did one layer so we could put the initial mulch down and that ... http://burm.net/2008/05/27/here-are-some-before-during-and-after-shots-of-the-landscaping/ Just making a page so I can remind myself when I did the basic things around the house that are done on a routine basis. Just yesterday I ran out to buy Ortho Home Defense Max, both the spray and the Granules (overkill). The purpose is to keep bugs out ... http://burm.net/2008/04/10/house-reminders-how-often-do-you-do-normal-maintainance/ Well,  this isn't a normal "house update".  The house was updated, but with a few thousand pound branch that crushed my truck, scratched Chrissy's car, and took off my brand new gutters.  Below are some pictures, it happened at about 10:45pm (about an hour and 1/2 ago) on 3/8/2008.  I ... http://burm.net/2008/03/08/tree-smashed-my-truck-wifes-car-and-my-house-will-i-be-in-good-hands-allstate/