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I really like how Lovetastic’s search works.  Instead of a plethora of select boxes, users can simply use expressions to create searches.  We did something similar with Tryst’s searching.  One text field and you enter stuff like age ranges (30-45), things like smoke-yes or smoke-no, cities, zipcodes, etc.

To make this whole thing more Rails like, [...]

Against the advice of, well, the entire Rails community, I attempted to deploy a project to Godaddy.
Godaddy proudly displays the little Ruby logo next to Php when browsing through their hosting plans, and seeing as you can get Rails hosting for $7/month through them, it seems like a decent deal, even if you know it’s [...]

I have DSL service from Qwest.  It is ok.  Beats the competition. The one thing I HATE is the modem I got from them, an Actiontec GT-701WG.

The problem?  It was darn near impossible to make it be JUST a modem, not act as a router/gateway, not act as a NAT, no frickin Actioncrap firewall, just [...]