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Re: Gratitude

philcrissman — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:35:26 -0000

Yes, absolutely. All the little annoyances pale in comparison to real suffering. It's good to remember. Thanks for reading!

Re: Gratitude

philcrissman — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:34:15 -0000

Thank you! Thanks for reading and commenting. Jocko's podcast has been a big impact on me as well.

Re: Gratitude

MyNewUnit — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 13:49:26 -0000

I have been having the same experiences since that podcast. I fail to see problems. That podcast was incredibly humbling. You cant get mad in the grocery store, or upset at your child for wanting everything they see in the store. You see life for it's joys and struggles and say "it is well with my soul".

Re: Gratitude

Rob Rowe — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 09:40:13 -0000

Thanks for sharing Phil. Gratitude is one of the most important words in the language. Sort of the Yin to the Yang of DISCIPLINE EQUAL FREEDOM. Jocko is changing attitudes and perspectives on foreign policy, patriotism and our inner game. Your story supports his work. Respect.

Re: Gratitude

philcrissman — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:34:19 -0000

Thanks for reading, thanks also for the comment. I know what you mean. I'm aiming every day not to take my life for granted.

Will definitely look up the South Downs. I'd love to visit England some day.

Re: Gratitude

Mike Best — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:19:53 -0000

Great words Phil! Simple things like taking the stairs because some people are infirm or have some horrid illness means they can't, takes something sort of unpleasant into something which is life affirming. It is all about gratitude. I'm not religious but stopping to say a little thank you to the Universe is so important. I mentally took quite a bad turn, when a friends mum died of cancer, I realsied that I have never had anything significantly bad happen in my life. I've never known hardship. I just haven't, but Im aware it could happen any moment, I could walk through the door and hear some news or whatever, it might never happen, I might live a happy fulfilled long life but my God I'm going to enjoy it and be grateful. I loved your words! Now I'm going for a run on the South Downs (in England) and listen to this song which has the lyrics in "Thank God I'm alive" give it a listen and look up a couple of pictures of the South Downs if you like, it's an incredible place. :-) https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: Ruby's Object#send Can Call Private And Protected Methods

Ben Morris — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:42:10 -0000

Thanks, this answered a question for me. I found this method useful for debugging/testing out a private method from the rails console.

One comment: the screen shots seem a bit blurry, which make them a little hard to read.

Re: Clearing Form Fields with JQuery

jorge — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:12:04 -0000

Nice and simple. Thx

Re: Validating Nested Attributes on Update

Ben Simpson — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:57:59 -0000

I tried validates_association, and it works as you have advertised. Unfortunately I had to roll my own error messages because I wanted a list of errors for each attribute (instead of just reporting "is invalid"). Thanks for the advice!

Re: Validating Nested Attributes on Update

philcrissman — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:36:27 -0000

You're right, that's exactly what I did, just force it in the controller.

To check that the associations are valid all the time, I could, maybe _should_, have used validates_associated :children

.. but that still doesn't validate the requirement that I had at the time, namely, that at least one child must be present in order for the Parent to be valid. If I was doing this now, I think I would use a custom validation, check the size of the children association, and add the error if the size was zero.

Re: Validating Nested Attributes on Update

Ben Simpson — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:44:18 -0000

This looks to be forcing the validation in the controller (in addition to the validation in the model). How can we get accepts_nested_attributes_for to validate on update? It seems to only validate child objects on create, not update, as you mention.

Re: Over the last month or so,

philcrissman — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:44:47 -0000

Haven't started Breaking Bad, mostly because I'm certain it will be great and I don't have time to watch it. :-)

Did watch GoT, very good series. The books, as always, are better, but they did a good job (so far) putting them on screen.

LOST did indeed prove to be a waste of time. Worst series ending ever.

Have you yet gone back and watched Firefly? Worthwhile.

Re: Over the last month or so,

Alex Pope — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:54:38 -0000

LOST? As in, "We just lost 57 hours of our life that we're never getting back"?

If you can handle the violence and the subject matter, I'd rather lose that time watching Breaking Bad, or if you can handle the violence and the nudity, perhaps Game of Thrones.

Heck, I'd even toss Eureka in there, then you don't have to worry about violence, subject matter, or nudity... just suspending your disbelief like they do the Golden Gate Bridge... but more.

But the real question, is do people really expect to get any of their time back? I mean, what a nonsense phrase! It's not like at the end of your life St. Peter says, "Listen, you've got 156 hours coming back to you, but those 57 hours you spend watching LOST - yeah, sorry... ."

Seriously. Oh, also Leverage. There's not a whole lot to that show, but as far as a solid popcorn and large Diet Coke sorta show... it's da bomb!

Okay... I'm done now. :)

Re: HER: We should just go out

Alex Pope — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:46:52 -0000

I think I'm thinking Whitney... I could be wrong... but yes, I'll say, "What is Whitney," Alex.

And I think it was HIM/HIM kinda. ;)

Re: How To Read Web Analytics

Alex Pope — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:44:02 -0000

Indeed.

There are lies, damned lies, and analytics reports.

Apologies to Sam, but I'm certain he'd feel the same were he here.

Re: How to quit your job

Alex Pope — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:39:14 -0000

See now, I was totally expecting one of those entries whereby the fella - you - tells his enthralled readers - us - the excruciatingly brilliant and humourous way(s) he quit his job(s), and then I - somewhat enthralled, but mostly slightly perforated reader - read this... perfectly practical, semi-reflective, pleasantly inspiring, yet devoid of the whimsy and wackiness that one was awaiting with a-baited breath.

But... that's okay... I liked it anyway. But I'm not going to quit. Not even once. Not that I haven't before. In fact, I even got quit once. But that's a story of whimsy and wackiness for yet another blog entry.

Not yours, of course, at least, not that I know of. Your blog, of course, not your whimsy, nor your wackiness, which I am sure are completely in tact and not suffering at all as a result of this entry, or this comment.

Irregardlessly speaking in unnecessary redundancies, I must admit and tell you in all candor, that I appreciated this piece of writing, even sans w&w, because it's important to know such things.

Anywho... is there a limit imposed upon these comments? I don't know, but I expect I am likely to find out if I don't stop with these non-parenthetical parenthetical comments.

Anywho... Nice to read your writing again. It seems as though I should do it more often, though life being what it is... I may just end up skyping your sorry self instead.

And I mean that your self is sorry only so much as... ah, never mind... listen, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

Yours In Reluctant Closing,

Re: Testing Ajax requests in Rails

davetron5000 — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:15:56 -0000

Thank you for this. Either no one uses AJAX on rails, or those that do hate documentation or TDD or both. Very helpful.

Re: Validating Nested Attributes on Update

Jon Potato — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:36:56 -0000

No, it's just fuzzy.

Re: Clearing Form Fields with JQuery

Skarockater — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:47:01 -0000

Simple enough, if someone doesn't like it, you can always create your own library of JavaScript functions. But, if you want to save time, JQuery it's pretty useful.

Re: Clearing Form Fields with JQuery

Arunkumaran — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:17:58 -0000

i want to submit a form at the time the form values are stored and i want back the blank form without using reset button . help me.....

Re: Clearing Form Fields with JQuery

philcrissman — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:37:11 -0000

Again, yes. If you're using Internet Explorer, it's going to look like crap. I have not tested with Internet Explorer, other than I checked once, and it's totally broken in IE.

Do I need a disclaimer, somewhere? ;-)

Re: Clearing Form Fields with JQuery

Ravi Kumar — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:46:53 -0000

very worst background.. Couldn't even read the content properly...

Re: Clearing Form Fields with JQuery

philcrissman — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:25:15 -0000

Which browser are you using? I know it renders horribly in IE, and I just haven't cared enough to fix it. AFAIK, it looks fine on Firefox or webkit browsers.

Re: Clearing Form Fields with JQuery

Asdf — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:20:44 -0000

This website is hard to see content on. That is my comment

Re: Clearing Form Fields with JQuery

A. Quinton — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:45:25 -0000

Useful, thanks!