computer aided manufacturing

May 10th, 2010

There was a time when I worked with really big machines.

I did work with computers, but only to draft the coordinates for my designs.   Back than I learned to love autocad, with all it’s amazing keyboard commands.   We would race to draft a design against the other team and still manage to inc out a phone in pastic material.

In my spare time, I’d build bullet proof flowers extruded from a solid block of translucent plastic.

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Art work

May 9th, 2010

I created a lot of art in my earlier life.  I finally extracted it from one of my old computers and now have some of it posted to flicker.  Here’s a few samples.

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Art

JJ Singh’s Jewelry Store Goes Live!

February 18th, 2010

It’s been a busy few months, following the release of the stickers store we have launch a new Jewelry store for JJ Singh – JJ Singh Jewelry.

Let me know what you think!

Life at work, Software

New Stickers E-Commerce Website Launch

February 13th, 2010

We have just announced our new stickers store Wall2Wall Stickers.  Check it out, let me know what you think.  I would love to know if you see any glaring issues.

To date we have had modest traffic and a few purchases in only the first 3 days of making the site available – we’re optimistic about the site. We built it on the spree e-commerce platform and have made some fairly major changes, but all in all have been very happy with the platform and are very much looking forward to the latest from Spree Edge.

Life at work, Software

Webkit, Ruby and Gtk+

February 8th, 2010

The ruby bindings for Gnome are really nice.  I’m amazed at how easy this was.

Sure it’s not Chrome, but not bad for an embedded browser.  Oh and check out how simple this is:

require 'webkit'
win = Gtk::Window.new
wv = Gtk::WebKit::WebView.new
win.add(wv)
win.show_all
wv.open('http://www.google.com/')
Gtk.main

Try it out!    The bindings are on github.

Software

Ruby and Time.now.httpdate

January 26th, 2010

I keep running into this when I need a httpdate.  Make sure to always require ‘time’

e.g.

Time.now.httpdate -> raises exception

and

require ‘time’

Time.now.httpdate ->Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:10:45 GMT

Life at work

Updated Captico Webite

January 19th, 2010

Our new business and our new website.  We build websites, market websites and make it easier for businesses to sell their goods online.

Check us out.  Let me know what you think of the design and anything else!

Life at work