The Blog of Adam Patten

Wow, my site actually got visitors! 189 people visited on Sunday, that has got to be a record for my site. I guess someone submitted the post about my Rails plugin for Google Website Optimizer to StumbleUpon. Hopefully they weren’t looking for much because I hadn’t updated the website in a whole year prior to that post.

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I developed a small Rails plugin that adds some helpers for working with Google Website Optimizer. I made this for use at work, but others might find it useful so check it out on Github if you are interested.

http://github.com/apatten-kidzui/website_optimizer.

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I will be moving soon and I need to find a place to live in PB so I’ve been apartment hunting. Today I went looking for a place with my future roommate and we found a decent place that is a little beat up. I figured with with some paint, a new carpet and a little TLC could be a great place. The Realtor lady assured us that Cal-Prop, the property management company, would be fixing it up. I thought it would be good to move into a place with all these new things, but the future roomy said she heard that Cal-Prop can be shady and usually keeps your whole security deposit when you move out. I didn’t like the sound of that! I understand that. I understand there are going to be times when tenants trash their places, especially in PB, and property management will keep some or most of the deposit, but not the whole deposit all the time. I figured I would check into the claims of Cal-Prop being a bad property manager when I got home, and it looks like they are indeed shady. I only found three different sites reviewing Cal-Prop, but none of them were good. Those bad reviews were enough for me to skip this place and keep looking, I’d rather save myself from headaches that I don’t need. Anyone else have a bad experience with Cal-Prop?

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Recently my traffic has sky rocketed when Chris linked to my site. I saw an increase from my normal one visitor to a whopping 5! With all this link love I might even move up to a Page Rank of 2!

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If this isn’t a case of RTFM, then I don’t know what is. I set up my friends blog back in October using WordPress and wanted to enable pretty URLs. Unfortunatly, he chose Yahoo! as his host and they don’t allow access to the .htacess file. I thought there was no way to do it since I couldn’t use mod_rewrite. However, if I had just read the whole permalink article on the WordPress Codex, I would have realized that I could have “almost pretty” URLs by just adding “index.php” in front of the structure and let WordPress use a little PATHINFO magic.

Popularity: 69% [?]