The reason it's been so quiet around here this month is that I've been crazy busy in my main hobby due to our major event for the year (run by our local group). Rowany Festival is the largest Mediev...

A few months ago we invited the Ruby on Rails community to participate in our hosting survey. We’ve since published the results and created an infographic. To learn more, check out the Rails Hos...

home rdoc bugs RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects. RDoc includes the +rdoc+ and +ri+ tools for generating and displaying documentation from the command-line. Cha...

I spent a long week grappling with text encoding. Please enjoy the fruit of my labors: A programmer walks into a coffee shop.Programmer: “Do you serve cortados here?”Barista: “No—wrong c...

WebSockets are an exciting new HTML5 technology which has finally begun to pick up enough browser, server and library support to support much wider adoption, potentially driving a move towards a signf...

Merhabalar, Bir süre önce, çalışmakta olduğum bir projenin Windows sistemleri üzerinde yayınlanma zorunluluğu ortaya çıktı. Daha önceki yazılarımda rails projeleri için Windows alterna...

So die CeBIT ist ja aktuell gerade in Hannover und ja ich hätte da noch 3 CeBIT Tagestickets zu verschenken. Ich bin etwas spät dran, ich weis, aber die CeBIT geht ja noch bis ende der Woche. Also s...

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A few months ago, Ethan brought up a great rule for tackling a new project: Identify the hardest parts—the problems you don’t immediately know how you’ll solve—and make it a point to accomplis...

<article> <header> Infinite sequences in ruby </header> One feature of harmonia is tasks that recur on a schedule, e.g. every Thursday, or on the 30th day of each mont...

Inspired by a post from Software by Rob [1] and in turn this Pixlin [2] post from 2007, I decided to give Mechanical Turk a whirl to help me come up with a product name. I'm going to talk about my exp...

Interesante noticia que quiero hacer ECO que ya está disponible la versión 5.6 del popular servidor de base de datos MySQL. La versión pasa al estatus GA que significa Generally Available ( Disponi...

A list of good blog posts about the going-ons and state of the Rails Community, mid-January edition

What is AngularJS? AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework. View on github: https://github.com/angular/angular.js It extends HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly...

In the olden days with our racks of Dell servers we used to have the luxury of the iDRAC card - Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (I often wondered what the acronym meant!) - other manufacturer...

*warning: plot spoilers below*. Imagine yourself in the trenches of WWI. The next chapter you're in Ancient Egypt, then in Troy. A little while later you've gone through the land of the bugs, dark/twi...

Designing slides is a key part of making a presentation engaging. Having great, interesting content is obviously very important but the way it is presented can turn a lecture into entertainment. Let...

It’s been a little while that I have decided to always extract my gem binaries into my rails application “bin” path. That way, I always execute binaries by specifying the relative path. For exam...

Creating simple websites is not a challenge no more. Prior to modern CMS and PSD to HTML conversion services, people had to study programming, HTML and CSS. The table layout was widely spread and it w...