Quoted: I've been using the new Rails feature of named_scope for my current project. One thing I do for all new pages is to check the Rails development.log file to make sure that the SQL queries I'm expecting are actually the ones that are executed. Typically, my controller will run the queries to get all the data, and the views will use the results to display

Quoted: Check out our Craigslist posting We've had a lot of response from Microsoft stack people, some Java, a few PHP people and a few people with no programming experience at all. We got really lucky with our first attempt a few months ago - we ended up hiring the first person to respond to the listing (which is kind of scary). Perhaps now we're hitting

Cafe Harlequin is now open.

We had their prix fixe menu and were quite impressed with the food for a brand new restaurant. The service was a bit spotty, but very friendly, and the owner is there making sure issues are all taken care of.

This will become one of our regular Kirkland haunts.

Setup an aggregation of blog and news sites to create a single stream for yourself or to share with others. I just set one up for work, with all the relevant blogs for our business

For those of you thinking about writing that novel, National Novel Writing Month starts on Saturday

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Remember this for next year

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Mystery Science Martha 3000!

Quoted: Watch Fine Living's newest series, Whatever Martha, as Alexis Stewart gives entertaining takes on her famous mother.

New Downtown Kirkland restaurant opening soon