Reserved words in Grails?

So, I found this list of reserved words in Groovy, but a few times I’ve run into others that seem to be problematic. Not sure if they are actually “reserved”, or where the conflict is for each, but I know I had problems… alternate – so, I had a domain Course, and another domain CourseAlternate […]

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May 7, 2014 – 1:29 pm | By Ian | Posted in Grails/Groovy | Comments (0)

Use “name” to add an “id” attribute to g:form (in Grails)

If you want to use the simple syntax <g:form action=’myaction’ />, adding id=”x” will result in a form post to /myaction/x – to get a post to /myaction with a form id attribute of “x”, use the name attribtue instead, as <g:form action=’dologin’ name=’x’ />, per this thread: https://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-895 Alternately, you can use the syntax […]

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May 5, 2014 – 2:03 pm | By Ian | Posted in Grails/Groovy | Comments (0)

Pick Link Source in context menu

To add this functionality to Windows, use this awesome extension: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

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March 14, 2014 – 2:41 pm | By Ian | Posted in Windows | Comments (0)

In Rails, html_safe is an adjective, not a verb

Note that in Rails, string.html_safe means that string is known to be safe html, and should not be escaped; otherwise, all strings are escaped by default (for output). It does not mean that string should be escaped to become safe!

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February 28, 2014 – 11:44 am | By Ian | Posted in Programming/Web Design, Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

Comparing strings to potentially null values in Rails

I’m fairly new to Rails, and Ruby, for that matter, and not yet sure of some basic things. I’ve read a bunch about how to test for (and not test for) nil or empty, and also about how to avoid that need – for instance, see this very useful post on keenertech.com. But, I can’t seem […]

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February 20, 2014 – 3:36 pm | By Ian | Posted in Database, Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

Copy command line output to Windows Clipboard directly

Thanks to this article, I found a great, easy way to get command line output into the clipboard. Why? For instance, today I wanted to include a list of files in an email, and I didn’t want to type them or manually copy and paste each file name from file explorer. I could have piped […]

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September 25, 2011 – 4:06 pm | By Ian | Posted in Command Line, Operating System, Windows | Comments (0)

Simple backup logging script for frequently changing sql objects

People talk plenty about data backup, audit trails, etc., and of course that is super-important. But one thing I’ve found is that I sometimes need an easy – or at least, relatively easy – way to either roll back or just view previous versions of sql objects such as stored procedures, functions, and views. Now, […]

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September 8, 2011 – 11:58 am | By Ian | Posted in Database, SQL Server, Workflow/Backup | Comments (1)

Regular Expression for extracting US Zip Codes

Extract a zip from a a single line extracted from a multi-line address or a single form field, which may or not be zip+4 format, and which maybe on its own, following a city and/or state, and maybe preceding a country

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January 14, 2011 – 4:24 pm | By Ian | Posted in Regular Expressions | Comments (0)