Base 64 URL encoding/counting

Several years ago I had the need to automate rate management for a system running the Harris Protocall calling card platform. Never heard of it? You’re probably a better person for it.

Previously the system was maintained by hand which obviously was extremely error prone. Just to give you a quick idea how easily it was [...]

Rails - Know your models

I’ve been trying to upgrade a Rails app that worked on 1.2.6 to 2.0.2 for what seems like ever know. Granted what I mean by “working on” is that I’d spend at most an hour or so trying to tracking down exactly what was causing the one same error that I was getting anywhere I [...]