A quick survey (just 4 questions)

17Jun10

Hi,

I have a survey I was wondering anyone reading this would take. It’s non intrusive and only 4 questions. Thanks!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MZVKKYX

- Sterling

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Things that I want for my Birthday

29Jan10

Well, my Birthday is coming up soon so I thought I would start now, posting nice things you all can buy me Ha ha,

Sony Daily Edition eReader
This is pretty much the best eReader in the planet. Why? It’s wireless with 3g network (free all the time), you can download pdf’s etc to it and best of all, it’s touch screen. You can highlight, make notes and move the eReader to landscape mode! I would be very excited to get one of these!

Studio Head Phones by Dr Dre
These are some bad A head phones with amazing noise canceling technology. They run about $350 and would be perfect! I like these ones because they come with a nice thick cord that will last forever. Very nice Dr Dre, your doin yo thing.. (they also have the new Spin head phones coming out soon. Either will do, but I don’t think they will be out by my birthday).

Magic Mouse from Apple
I’ve been eying this new mouse from apple for a while and thing it’s a lower ticket item I just wouldn’t mind. With a price tag around $69 its, just what I need.

Droid phone from Motorola or HTC
Any “droid” phone will do, running the Android OS but, if I had to pick one, I think HTC makes the best one (It’s smaller) . This is as sweet phone that I have wanted for a while. My main concern is the phone should have a 5mp camera with a zoom and a flash.

Well that’s it! Feel free to buy me anyone one of these hot ticket items! Ill update this with more, newer info in the future!

- Sterling

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Thinking about designing a personal site

29Jan10

While I do like wordpress and the whole “blogging” idea, I’m seriously considering doing a personal site from the ground up. Informational based. Something good that can really showcase my talent. The question is however, do I want to actually pay for hosting? I mean, if I do create this is site, it needs to pay for itself right?

Here are my ideas. I will create an awesome personal site showcasing both my design and programming talent. While on the site, I’m also going to have a lot of how to’s etc that contain small ads on the site. Whenever people go to my how to, I can receive a small bit of revenue, at least enough to pay for 5 – 10/ month of hosting. I can promote my how to section by creating youtube videos that can be watched then link to my official how to page.

What do yall think?
Also, I was thinking of using my name or a .info extention since it’s only 2/year for a .info and my .com name has been high jacked.

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Remebering the good ole times

21Jan10

Check out these two sites. One of the first I ever made

http://www.freewebs.com/scobb/Html/justforfun.html

http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/sterling

Ha Ha man it’s been a while

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Just installed windows 7

14Jan10

Hey I just installed windows 7 and am trying their Writer service out for the first time. I really hope it’s going to work!

 

This is a random map!

 

And some pictures of cool animals.

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Ubuntu is almost here!

25Oct09

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Jobcept.com is going prettty good…

18Oct09

Ok so I’m working on www.Jobcept.com right now and got the basics pretty much down.

here’s a link. Jobcept

Jobcept is a new take on posting job’s and hiring people. It’s kind of like monster but with a couple things that really makes the employers job searching time productive.

I decided to make a three step process to posting a job and have been doing it in ruby on rails. It’s actually nice. I’m going to do my first launch with no ajax, just pure css/html and Rails. For the most part, that makes thing’s a snap but I think the guys on the rails form get a little bit irritated with all my questions. haha, I don’t blame them.

Anyway, I’m hoping to launch in about 3 weeks. Most of the css is work is all ready done and I must say, it’s lookin real nice.

- Sterling

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Which color should I get?

08Oct09

So this year in my haste to avoid someone, I lost my Arcteryx hat! I was very sad, but I am going to buy another one. This go around I don’t know what color to buy. Hum…

http://www.arcteryx.com/Product.aspx?Mens/Accessories/Billi-Brim-Hat

This hat is by far my fav

- Sterling

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MacVim with Ruby on Rails

06Oct09

Hey everyone,

I found that there are a couple really good plugins for MacVim when programming Ruby on Rails.

• snipMate – this is great to auto generate code with Tab. Similar to Textmate. The plugin can be found here.
• NerdTREE – This is the perfect plugin for basic navigation. The plugin can be found here.
• Rails – This plugin is great when working in rails for recognizing syntax and so much more! The plugin can be found here.

Ok so maybe you were like me and installed MacVim and was like “crap, what now?”. No worries, I’m going to try to give you a easy set of instructions to get this bad boy running…

First go to your home directory, and create a folder called “.vim” notice there is a “.” in front of it.  That make’s it hidden. If it’s all ready there, then you don’t have to create it.

Second, extract snipeMate and paste it’s contents in the “.vim” folder”

Next extract NerdTree and place the plugin contents into the “.vim/plugin” folder.

Next extract the rail.vim and place that into the “.vim/plugin” folder.

great! close MacVim and then re-open everything is working.

Ok so if you are looking for more snippets you can find lots of git hub. All you need to do is copy them into the snippets folder.

Here is a basic on how to use all this stuff.

NERD Tree – to use NerdTree just go into vim press “:” then start to type “NERD” you can just press tab from there and it will auto complete the command for you to open nerd tree. Look into bookmarks, they are very useful in NerdTree. Also, if you want to tab around split views, just do control + w twice and it will move you to the next split.

snipMate - All you need to do is start to type some code and press “tab” to auto complete it. Depending on what snippets you have will depend on when you should push tab and what you should type in.

rails.vim – Ok this is in my opinion the coolest plugin ever. The things I use most are the following commands. Play around with them to see how you like em.

• “:R” – This jumps to a related piece of code. For instance, if your cursor is in the “edit” part of your controller, it will jump you to the edit.html.erb view for that controller.
• “:Rview NAME_OF_VIEW” – This is great for when your in a controller and you want to jump straight to one of the views. I only use this command to jump to partials because I can specify the files name.
• “:Rcontroller NAME_OF_CONTROLLER” – same as the previous mentioned except for the controller.
• “:Rmodel NAME_OF_MODEL” – same as the previous two, but for the model
• “:Rserver” – This actually will start the server for you without having to go into the terminal
• “:Rserver!” – notice the “!” on the end? that stop the server for you
• “:Rpreview” – this jumps you right to your browser to preview your site
• “:Rfind FILE_TO_FIND” – by far this is my favorite command. This will find any file in your RoR directory. This one you really need to experiment with for yourself to understand how it works but it’s really nice.
• “:Renvironment” – takes you to your environment file, but you can also do :Rfind environment and it will find it.

Ok that’s it for the Rails.vim plugin. It’s super useful!

Note: if you might need to create a folder called “autoload” in the .vim folder and past the plugins that you want to autoload whenever vim starts.

Post if you have questions or need any further information.

- Sterling

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Church is True.

09Aug09

Well. For some reason I have been getting a lot of resistance about my religion. I’m mormon, or lds or church of jesus christ of latter day saints. Whatever you want to call it. This is what I believe. I know that God loves me and everyone reading this (and more).

Its funny that people find fault in what I believe yet they fail to look at it’s amazing side effects. What are these? Healthy, happy living with constant growth and prosperity, even in the harshest of circumstances. Even if things all around me seem to crumble I can still stand strong. I know that this is true. I’m thankful for it. Read the book of mormon and tell me it’s not true. Based on what you felt when reading it.

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