Archive for July, 2009

RoR: ActionView::TemplateError (can’t dup NilClass)

So I got this error today when working on a Ruby on Rails application:
ActionView::TemplateError (can’t dup NilClass)
Well, I didn’t find too much with a quick glance through google (though I could have spent more time). It was a quick fix: I accidentally used an instance variable that I forgot to define in [...]

July 27, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Technology  No Comments

Add a search form anywhere to your OpenCMS website

If you would like to use the OpenCMS search tools provided in the content management system, here’s all you need to add anywhere you’d like it:
<form id=”searchForm” name=”searchForm” action=”/opencms/opencms/yourwebsite/search.html” method=”post”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”action” value=”search” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”searchPage” value=”1″ />
<input type=”text” name=”query” value=”" />
<input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”Search” />
</form>
Keep in mind that in the content editor, this code [...]

July 25, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Technology  No Comments

Singularity University: “Past” the Fiction, Into the Future

If you haven’t yet been introduced to the idea of the Technological Singularity as theorized by Ray Kurzweil, you’ve probably been exposed to popular culture like the Terminator or Matrix movies.  Yes, those are obvious works of fiction but Kurzweil presents the idea that we may lose control of technological advancement as it controls itself.  [...]

July 13, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Technology  No Comments

Finding an Engineering Internship

As an engineering student, we are fortunate to get paid for our internships while gaining great experience.  Having an internship actually let’s us apply some of our classes to real world applications – but you probably already know that.  Here’s all the steps I have taken to procure internships and what worked for me.
1.) Go [...]

July 8, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Career, College  No Comments

Web 2.0 vs Money: Where is the future of internet business?

The increasing trend in webbased businesses seems to point towards offering pretty much everything free.  Certainly, it has benefited those of us who need those free things (I’m using WordPress which, of course, is free) and enjoy the freedom of open source software.   This has unsurprisingly changed the way some companies do business but [...]

July 7, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Career, Technology  No Comments

Welcome to beebles.net

When trying to find a good place on the web for my new website, I reached back a little bit in my own life.  I created a website back when I was in junior high school with the domain beebles.net and spent a good portion of my time devoted to maintaining and developing the website [...]

July 4, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments