http://blog.curthibbs.us/articles/2005/06/17/ajax-on-rails-murphys-law en-us 40 The thoughts of Curt Hibbs on technology, software, Ruby, and whatever... <p>It seems like I&#8217;ve been a Murphy&#8217;s-Law-magnet lately.</p> <p><a href="http://rubyforge.org/">RubyForge</a> was down on one of the two nights I had to prepare the video for my <a href="http://rubyforge.org/docman/?group_id=251">Rails presentation</a> to the <a href="http://ociweb.com/javasig/">St. Louis Java Users Group</a>. Then, during the presentation the fire alarm went off and we had to evacuate the building for about a half an hour, so when we resumed, I had to try to compress the remainder of an already time-tight presentation.</p> <p>On the same day (actually, at the same hour) of this Rails presentation, O&#8217;Reilly published my <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html">Ajax on Rails article</a> on their ONLamp.com site. The article contained links to my blog as live examples of using Ajax functionality. Unfortunately, my <span class="caps">ISP</span> co-location center suffered a major power failure that took 4,000 servers offline and my blog was caught in the crossfire just as people were try to use it!</p> <p>Perhaps I&#8217;ve used up my quota of Murphy&#8217;s Law and can look forward to a peaceful summer. But I suspect that Murphy would beg to differ!</p> Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700 urn:uuid:7109f4d9-cf47-4282-91a1-94eebddd07a8 Curt Hibbs http://blog.curthibbs.us/articles/2005/06/17/ajax-on-rails-murphys-law rants