Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • Medical Tourism

    If you had any doubts that undocumented aliens are sapping our resources and utilizing out tax dollars let me relate a story. As you may or may not know I’m a surgeon. I still take ER Call at our [local hospital][1] and this story occurred over the recent holiday weekend. A woman came to the…

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  • diff/patch

    OMG that seemed to be overly difficult. All I wanted to do was create a patch of a duplicate local folder and apply it locally to the folder in the svn repository. I kept getting the problem that `patch` only wanted to apply the patchfile in the wrong directory. After a long time in `#svn`…

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  • Flipping the switch

    Well if you’re reading this at radio.weblogs.com them you’ve probably realized that I’ve flipped the switch. Well, maybe you haven’t. Other than a small change to the layout and no calendar you shouldn’t notice any real changes. I guess that’s the whole point. If [Squib][1] is working properly then you won’t really be able to…

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  • SQLite and Squib

    Thanks to Matt, and my persistence, [Squib][1] now works and plays well with a SQLite database. There were a few little tricks like SQLite is case-sensitive and search where `something = true` need to be written `something = 1`. Matt’s de-normalization for the dates made this all possible. [1]:http://squib.rubyforge.org/

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  • Theme Stylesheets

    I’ve made some [Squib][1] modifications that allows for selection of different stylesheets from within a theme without having to make continual modifications to the theme. It works for both staging and live sites. The drop-down that contains the themes lists the contents of `themes/theme_name/resources/styles` for the selected theme. What’s confusing could be that the list…

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