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Breaking Bad…Habits
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Posted on 07/22/2014 by Geoff Thompson. The opposite of a pomodoro a day to create a new habit (check out the Pomodoro Technique here. Is the art of breaking those bad habits I have created through mindless repetition over the course of my life to this point. When typing, are you still entering two spaces after ending a sentence? Wiring is why, once formed, bad habits are so damn hard to break. But why good habits can become so great. See? I just did it again. Damn. One step at a time.
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Baby Steps (in the Right Direction)
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Baby Steps (in the Right Direction). Posted on 09/03/2014 by Geoff Thompson. Walking my dog this morning, I felt a burst of excitement. It was the excitement of re-focusing myself in a way that I knew I could be successful. These were the thoughts bouncing around my monkey-mind this morning when I started my walk. But then I thought about The Slight Edge. It is a simple book with a simple concept. The same concept propounded in comic fashion in the movie What About Bob? In The Slight Edge, Jeff opens wit...
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Old Dog Learning New Tricks (Again) - Part 1
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Old Dog Learning New Tricks (Again) - Part 1. Posted on 10/30/2014 by Geoff Thompson. I wanted to get my hands dirty with AngularJS, but I get aggravated quickly when the available tutorials build useless apps - namely, those that dont maintain state. After all, what good is a todo app if all it does is save todos in an in-memory array? But if someone else stumbles upon this post and finds it useful, Id love to hear about it! So, enough chit-chat - lets get started. First, I took this great free course.
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Grit Gets the Cracker
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Grit Gets the Cracker. Posted on 12/04/2014 by Geoff Thompson. Thanks to Jim Earley. Who forwarded a great blog post. To me, and thanks to my own severe case of Clickitis, I spent a good part of yesterday morning reading and clicking and reading on what will probably become one of my favorite new websites, Barking Up The Wrong Tree. There are many insightful and inspiring articles on the site, and I appreciate the way the writer, Eric Barker, gets so quickly to the point. Eric says this about grit:.
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Don't Break the Chain
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Dont Break the Chain. Posted on 07/22/2014 by Geoff Thompson. With Joel Hodgson. My business partner and I were sitting in the booth right behind Jerry, and thought we might get into a shot or two; we didnt. Eliminating words, even syllables, to get the timing of the entire bit just right. Dont believe me? One of my favorite stories about Jerry comes from an article written on LifeHacker.com. Thanks to my friend and business coach Jim Earley. I am an entrepreneur, software engineer, writer, singer, and a...
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Adding Sort Parameters to Ransack
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Adding Sort Parameters to Ransack. Posted on 08/06/2014 by Geoff Thompson. No examples I could find did this, so I started sniffing through ransack source code and trying things. I ended up with this:. Standard code to support searching and sorting by ransack. Default sort order if not requested. This is the bit I couldnt find - it does not replace the sort set above, but just. Appends the new sort parameter to the array of sort parameters.
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Building This Blog With Rails, Bootstrap, and Heroku
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Building This Blog With Rails, Bootstrap, and Heroku. Posted on 07/22/2014 by Geoff Thompson. I wanted to build my own blog as a way to learn more about Heroku, Ruby, Rails and Bootstrap. Reference material abounds, and was a tremendous help. I combined bits and pieces from all of these sources in building this blog post:. By Michael Hartl is a free online book (also available for purchase) with tons of complementary materials - very instructive and getting an indepth feel for Rails. Create the database ...
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Permissions for One-Step Web Deployment with Git
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Permissions for One-Step Web Deployment with Git. Posted on 10/01/2014 by Geoff Thompson. However, for all the time Ive been using Git, Ive been a dabbler, and Ive never bothered to learn about how fabulous it would be to use Git to streamline deploying changes from my development machine(s) to my web servers. Today, finally, I changed that. But it wasnt without its headaches, which is the reason for this post. In a nutshell, the problem I ran into was one Abhijit mentions but doesnt provide a fix for: t...
