Dane Morgridge

Reality Machine EP, by Reality Machine

Wed, 03 May 2017 13:11:41 -0400

My band just released some studio work. Check it out!

Reality Machine

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:49:56 -0400

Reality Machine is my new music project. Check out and keep tabs on us at https://www.reverbnation.com/realitymachine and http://realitymachineband.com/

Dane Morgridge | Alternative from Norristown, PA

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 12:53:48 -0400

Dane Morgridge | Alternative from Norristown, PA:

I moved my music to ReverbNation. Check it out. I just recorded some new stuff that I’ll be posting soon.

Live acoustic version of one of the songs on my upcoming album.

Wed, 14 May 2014 14:08:05 -0400

Live acoustic version of one of the songs on my upcoming album.

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:28:47 -0500

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions” - Blaise Pascal

Locks only keep honest people honest

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:35:00 -0500

Locks only keep honest people honest

Photo

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:17:46 -0400

New Web Comic - Code Monkey Kung Fu

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:55:53 -0400

New Web Comic - Code Monkey Kung Fu:

It’s been something I’ve wanted to do for quite some time and decided it was finally time. Yesterday, I launched a new web comic “Code Monkey Kung Fu”. After being a programer for more than ten years, I’ve come across quite a few hilarious situations and will be drawing on them for inspiration. I also have a four kids, so they will probably produce a lot as well. My plan is to release on Tuesdays with additional comics mixed in on occasion.

I hope you enjoy!

Architecting The Fall Of Man

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:20:58 -0400

You all know the story. Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. The fall of man occurred when Eve ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and subsequently gave the apple to Adam. Of course it was the devil who tempted Eve and they were all cast out of the garden of Eden and man’s destiny of a life of sin was set in motion.

The part I take issue with is the tree of knowledge of good and evil itself. It didn’t just grow on its own, it was placed there deliberately by God. Sure God told Adam and Eve not to eat it and sure they disobeyed. But if God is all powerful and all knowing, he knew good and well that they would eat, yet he put it there anyway. He knew that the devil would temp Eve and yet he was allowed to be in the garden of Eden.

This means that, if the bible is true, the fall of man was directly and completely architected by God himself. Christians will all agree that God is all powerful, all knowing and incapable of mistakes. This means that the fall of man wasn’t a mistake, but rather a planned event.

And if it was in-fact a planned architected event, then what is to be said about the idea of redemption? Jesus was sent to the cross to provide salvation for the human race. Salvation that wasn’t necessary. A situation that could have been easily avoided had the tree of knowledge of good and evil not been deliberately placed in the garden of Eden.

We can rationalize just about anything but it’s pretty hard to deny that, according to the bible, the fall of man was an architected, deliberate event.

This leaves a few options:

1. The bible isn’t true
2. God isn’t all powerful, all knowing, and incapable of mistakes
3. We were created to fall and to be ruled by fear

Food for thought.

As a musician, I am saddened by the loss of a legend. All of you know who I am talking about. As a...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:34:42 -0500

As a musician, I am saddened by the loss of a legend. All of you know who I am talking about.

As a veteran, my heart weeps for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice this year. Do you know the name of even one of them?

As a human, I am disgusted and outraged at a government that will shell houses and kill innocent children to squash those seeking freedom. Did you know this is happening right now and has been for a while? Do you even know where the country is on the map where this is happening?

As an American, I am ashamed of the priorities of the majority of those who share citizenship status with me.

Most of us don’t care about anything that doesn’t directly affect our own personal quality of life. We prefer to be blissfully ignorant of the world around us. One day that will come crashing down and you will wonder how it happened.

I'm sick to death of recruiters who won't take two seconds to not waste my time

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:20 -0500

Subject of this email I just got is: “EAD/ GC or Citizens Only:- Urgent Requirement :- .Net Developer (GA, 3+ Months)Locals Only!!–"

The only reason I payed any attention to it is because I read it on my iPad and quickly skimmed it. As I am a consultant, I occasionally will get info through my work email about new gigs. Then I read it. It was another email from a stupid recruiter who won’t take two seconds to google me or something before sending me an email. Unless of course you consider Philadelphia, PA local to Atlanta, GA.

I’ve heard others start to threaten to post the emails they get and I’m in that kind of mood so here goes. Here is the email I got. If you’re in Atlanta, you may (or probably may not) be interesting in this gig…

HI Dane,

Hope you are doing great! Please find the requirement below , If you find yourself comfortable with the requirement please reply back with your updated resume and I will get back to you or I would really appreciate if you can give me a call back at my contact number ***-***-****

Location: Atlanta, GA
Duration: 3+ Months
Interview Mode: F2F After Phone!!

Visa Status: EAD / GC or Citizens
Required Skills:-
ASP .Net
C#
VB.Net
SQL2008/2005
HTML
MVC

HTTP Referrer in RSpec

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:29:23 -0400

I ran into an issue testing a controller action today where I needed to perform some action based on the HTTP referrer. When an rspec test executes the referrer is nil so the code errors. The quick fix is to manually insert the referrer into the request object:

@request.env[“HTTP_REFERER”] = “http://test.com”

This can obviously be done in a before block or each test as needed.

Rendering views in rspec controller tests

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:40:26 -0400

Normally I love the fact that rspec doesn’t render views when testing controllers, but I have one instance where this was needed. I needed to render some coffeescript through erb based on a controller action. I called the erb template using render_string, then passed the returned string to the coffeescript compiler. Not really the most elegant solution, but it does work well.

My real problem came when I needed to test it. Using cucumber didn’t make much sense to me so I wanted to do it through rspec. I already had the controller written and manually tested so test first wasn’t an option. I broke my coffeescript on purpose just to prove that the test would fail, had my spec looking for an response code of 200 since I knew if the coffeescript compile failed, it would return a 500.

I ran my spec and to my surprise it passed.

It failed everywhere else in every manual test I did, even if I loaded the rails test environment. Only the rspec test passed. Previous to this, I had never used rspec to test anything related to rendering views from a controller so it didn’t occur to me that rspec wouldn’t process the view template at all.

So to get it to work, I found an option that will allow your controller specs to render views. It’s an edge case so it wasn’t easy to find, but it’s pretty simple to do.

All you need to do is call integrate_views after describe YourController and it will also render the view.

New music room setup. My toys: 6 Piece Tama Imperialstar drum...

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:29:17 -0400

New music room setup. My toys: 6 Piece Tama Imperialstar drum kit, Epiphone Les Paul.

This is just pure awesome

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:34:35 -0400

This is just pure awesome

Rails debugging under Pow

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:26:44 -0400

Rails debugging under Pow:

Pow is awesome and if you are doing Rails (or Rack at all) dev on a Mac, you need to check it out. I was bummed about loosing debugging support, but tests take care of most of that anyway. But there have been a few cases where having a debugger would have been nice. Well someone figured out how and it is pretty awesome. Check it out.

Drum Solo Week - Neil Peart (6/9/11)

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:42:30 -0400

Drum Solo Week - Neil Peart (6/9/11)

Drum Solo Week - Roy Haynes (6/8/11)

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:40:26 -0400

Drum Solo Week - Roy Haynes (6/8/11)

Drum Solo Week - Sheila E (6/7/11)

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:39:45 -0400

Drum Solo Week - Sheila E (6/7/11)

Drum Solo Week - Anton Fig (6/6/11)

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:38:00 -0400

Drum Solo Week - Anton Fig (6/6/11)