Entries from February 2009

Aspen Skiing

Date February 25, 2009

Kathie and I just returned from a great vacation: Skiing in Aspen, Colorado! Dan graciously invited us and some other friends to stay at his family’s condo, which was in a great location, convenient to everything in Aspen. Kathie’s blog has our day-by-day journal, so I’m not going to repeat everything here… just click through [...]

Multiple image upload and crop with Rails

Date February 2, 2009

For a project I’m currently working on, I needed a way to upload several photos to attach to a “dog” model, and allow easy cropping of the photos. In Ruby on Rails, this turned out to be harder than I expected. The main problems I encountered were: There are several attachment uploading plug-ins for Rails, [...]