http://www.mokisystems.com/blog Addressing such topics as: web programming, design, ruby on rails, cake php, postgresql, linux, seo Fri, 20 May 2011 15:22:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Four Southern Utah entrepreneurs detailed their technology-related products Tuesday in St. George after receiving grants from a state-funded economic development organization. The Utah Science Technology and Research initiative, or USTAR, coordinated the luncheon in an effort to highlight recent recipients of its technology commercialization grants to local legislators and other members of the community at The ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/moki-systems-and-ustar-newspaper-article/ Refresh your browser screen to get the latest values! This page contains real-time flow data for two sites on the Virgin River and the mouth of the Santa Clara River, all near St. George, Utah. Discharge is hydrologist-speak for flow in the river. It is measured in ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/confluence-of-the-santa-clara-and-virgin-rivers/     Google Places is a fantastic and underutilized tool for insuring that your customers can find you. Places is an expanded profile for your small business in the Google Maps search results. Google allows business owners to self-edit information displayed in Places such as: Categories that describe your business Description of ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/google-places-an-underused-resource/ The Sevier River Water Users Association (SRWUA) in Central Utah are pioneers in the use of the Real-Time Web. For the past 10 years SRWUA has been delivering real-time water flow data to the public via the website www.SevierRiver.org. More that 100 remote, solar-powered, stations record water flow and capacity ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/hydrology-and-the-real-time-web/ http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/stress-testing-your-web-app/ I have been asked to announce that we have recently gone live with manticitycreek.org, a website for the Manti Irrigation and Reservoir Company of Manti, Utah to monitor real-time data from local canals, ponds and rivers. There are a number of different data products for viewing the data, including ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/manticitycreek-org-goes-live/ Moki Systems is seeking a full-time Ruby on Rails developer. The person should be a self starter, willing and able to figure things out on their own. Applicant should have experience with Ruby on Rails, MVC programming concepts, MySQL and/or PostgreSQL experience and the ability to learn new technologies. Any ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/were-hiring/ Whenever I find myself typing the same thing over and over again, I have to come up with some way to avoid the repetition. And one thing I do a lot is fill out web forms that require things like credit card numbers and unique email addresses. For a while ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/linux-clipboard-snippets/ So I had this problem with a record that was being saved even though it failed validation: cc = CreditCard.new(:card_number => 'invalid') >> cc.save => false >> cc.id => 3 That one had me stumped for a while until I realized I was carelessly using update_attribute in my custom writer: def card_number=(num) update_attribute(:crypted_card_number, encrypt(num)) end And we all ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/savings-records-that-fail-validation/ Pipes and Redirection These are standard shell tools, but sometimes I get confused about which one I need. So my way of thinking about it is that pipes are a connection between programs while redirection always goes to (or from) a file. So, for example, in order to find all my session ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/a-few-handy-things-to-know-about-bash/