Category Archives: Vacations

Smart Searching Using Anonymous Scopes

By John | Published: June 21, 2009
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, [...]
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rentalrundown.com and Seattle trip

By John | Published: June 9, 2008
Two things… First - Jen and I are taking a trip to Seattle for 7 days starting this Saturday.  We’re super pumped.   Second – Over Christmas last year I started on this lil Rails app I was calling duluthrentalreview.com.  Pretty obvious what it was.  I get so pissed at landlords in this town, and even more pissed at [...]
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Trip to Seattle & Washington State

By John | Published: May 22, 2008
Just booked a little week long excursion to Washington State for next month.  We’re flying in to Seattle on June 14th and will be returning on 21st.  Should be super sweet, the Pacific Northwest is my favorite region of The States and its been about 6-7 years since I’ve been out there. Jen’s never been there [...]
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