Dear Sen. Klobuchar, Sen. Franken, and Rep. Ellison, I am writing to express my deep concern about the pending SOPA/PIPA legislation. I have seen reports that Sen. Franken and Sen. Klobuchar are both...

I’ve been using unblock-us for some time and took only a few precautions like not signing in to any service but hulu.com while using this other DNS service. Yesterday Damon wrote a great article on ...

I've written before about using Ruby with Microsoft's ADO technology to query Excel workbooks as databases.This works well---most of the time. But you may occasionally bump into data type issues, wher...

Phusion hat eine neue Version REE Version 1.8.7-2012.02 veröffentlicht und verkündet gleichzeit das Ende von REE. Grundsätzlich eine gute Entscheidung. Ruby-Core konzentriert sich auf 1.9/ 2.0 Vers...

Estamos empezando el desarrollo de un proyecto (creo que los llaman mashups) para probar las APIs de Open movilforum. Se trata de tvienes, un servicio que te ayuda a organizar quedadas con tus amigos ...

stores your passwords in a file on your disk encrypts the file with a master password is designed for every-day-use is written in 234 lines of understandable Ruby code… Read it! is tested...

The Amish The Amish are a people who, besides their basic and very traditional way of life, have a firm grasp on the principles of simplicity. They do not have cell phones, computers, television or in...

In my previous post I covered building a simple C extension written in Ruby. There are times however that you may need to call functions defined in an existing native library. Fortunately there is a t...

I needed to added my public key to a couple of servers the same day. After having done it twice, I thought of writing a bash script to pull my key from a public url at dropbox and append it to the aut...

Dear [Under-Capitalized Business-Guy who wants me to work on your site for 'equity'], Thanks for taking time to meet today. It was interesting to learn about what you’re doing. I’ve put some thoug...

DNS stands for "Domain Name System", but you could google that information yourself and find definition online. What you could not find online is very short and absolutely minimal DNS guide for develo...

Scraping Rackspace for your API Key In the not too distant past, I decided that I would like to be able to retrieve my Rackspace API Key in a programmatic way. The tool I choose to use was none othe...

Ciao a tutti! Cerchiamo aiuto per alcuni progetti in Ruby on Rails a partire dal nuovo anno (2012): Ruby on Rails MySQL jQuery Interessato? Mandaci una mail o vieni a trovarci a Lastra a Signa in ...

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Amazon's recent launch of their new Kindle Fire device delivered an interesting surprise: their Silk browser routes all requests via an Amazon powered SPDY proxy! In principle, this is not new; Opera,...

Recently I had the honor to speak at RubyConf Argentina 2011 (which I must say was a blast). My talk was titled Tirando Ruby por la Ventana, which translates to Throwing Ruby through the Window The ta...

Letzte Woche fand in Antwerpen zum zehnten Mal die Devoxx Konferenz statt. Sicherlich eine der besten Java Konferenzen weltweit, mit sehr vielen renommierten und internationalen Speakern. Dies war inz...