Attachment_fu is a great plugin by Rick Olsen (a.k.a. techno-weenie). I use this plugin for one of the sites I maintain. I recently ran into a situation where I needed to regenerate the thumbnails for all the uploaded images. Attachment_fu provides no built-in support for this, so I had to get creative. A quick search on Google revealed a post by Michael D. Ivey that seemed like a reasonable thing to do, but was not sufficient by itself. So in this blog, I plan to cover the steps I took to automate the regeneration of thumbnails when you are using attachment_fu.

You ever have an old car that you refuse to relinquish because it continues to get 10 miles to the gallon and you've had so many memories with it? Sure, you've seen the commercials for those fancy cars that are more environment friendly, safer to drive, and have a built-in GPS, but you still refuse to surrender old "Eleanor" for some new technology. Until recently, I've been on that same bus only my car was Subversion. I've been using Subversion for the past two years as my Source Code Management (SCM) system of choice. Just recently, I spent over three hours dealing with a corrupt Subversion repository. This single event was the straw that broke the camel's back, in fact, it didn't just break the back, it smashed the camel into a little pancake. Therefore, I decided to 'Git' rid of Subversion and give Git a shot at the title.

As many of you may remember from my last upgrade, things usually don't go all that well for me, especially when I'm gambling with technology. A friend of mine at work has been encouraging me to upgrade to the latest flavor of Ubuntu, but given my past history, I've shyed away from the early adopter philosophy when it comes to Ubuntu server upgrades. Now that it has been over a month since the release of Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS, I decided to cross my fingers and dive head first into an upgrade on a Friday night.

I had a tough decision to make tonight. Should I relax and play Lost Odyssey on the XBox360 or share an excerpt of a continuing saga as it relates to the quality of Taco Bell's service. I choose the latter in this case and decided it was time to rant for a moment, so let me get right into it. Since high school, I've been a regular customer of Taco Bells all over the map. I should actually buy stock in the company, that's how much I eat there. Unfortunately, my local Taco Bell has been letting me down quite frequently lately. So be forewarned, don't count on getting good service at the Taco Bell located at 5205 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15224.

Welcome to another edition of me talking about some website that's been kicking my butt for months on end. If you remember back in this blog, I was beginning to build a revamped version of my family's restaurant website. From what I can gather, and my timestamps seem to be telling the truth on this one, I broke ground on the new site approximately January 29, 2008. Had anyone been around me at the time, I'm sure they would have swiftly commented under their breath "Well, so much for his weekends for the next year". Luckily for me, that wasn't the case this time.