Entries from October 2008 ↓

Rails Rumble 2008

I’m competing in Rails Rumble 2008 this year with my PBG peeps and Nate Ostgard. Its a 48 hour competition to write a web application using Ruby on Rails! Check out our live blog here, and the final product once it is done!  To get an idea of what we’re working on, check out some preliminary text from our about page (first draft hehe)

 

iheartgames is a new way to schedule console games with your friends and family. If you’re tired of playing with strangers, or not having enough people online to get a great multiplayer experience, then iheartgames has you covered.

 

iheartgames lets you add your list of games on any console from our complete and updated database of games from metacritic.com. It also manages a fully featured friends list with tons of contact methods, so you know your friends will always know when you want to play.

 

You, or any of your friends, can schedule game times for any game in your list. Notifications (twitter, SMS, etc.) will go out automatically to any of your friends owning the game. They will then be able to reserve their spot in your game until all available spots are filled. With iheartgames, you are guaranteed a full house with people that you trust across all platforms. Pickup games are a thing of the past with iheartgames.

Storing UTC datetime in your database? Is that really how you want to see your dates in reporting services?

If you’ve got your dates and datetimes stored as UTC in your database, but want to show the local time value on your reports in SQL Reporting Services, there is a simple solution for this!

 

Change the expression for the filed to the code below :

=System.TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone.ToLocalTime(Fields!DateTime.Value)

 

This converts your UTC datetime field to the local time zone value.