Anemone is a free, multi-threaded Ruby web spider framework from Chris Kite, which is useful for collecting information about websites. With Anemone you can write tasks to generate some interesting s...

This summer I'm revisiting my short apprenticeship at Object Mentor. I'll be posting commentary on all my posts from the summer of 2004 exactly 5 years later to the day.Friday 7-2-04We did use my code...

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Go get Firefox from the official site tar -xjf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 Rename firefox directory to firefox-3.5 mv firefox firefox-3.5 Move firefox-3.5 to /usr/lib sudo mv firefox-3.5 /usr/lib Now create a...

When setting up Erlang under OS X I have run into two issues. First, how do I keep multiple versions installed at once? I sometimes have a need to evaluate a new version of the Erlang VM while keeping...

Internationalization (or I18n if you’re hep) is a bear of a problem to deal with in software development. I’ve had to work with a multi-lingual site in PHP before. It wasn’t painful, but it was ...

The Rails Rescue Handbook is a new, 83 page PDF e-book by Mike Gunderloy that goes in-depth on how to "rescue" a Rails project that might have, well, gone off the rails. The book is aimed at people wh...

Both James Edward Gray II and Matt Todd were quoted in Satish Talim of Ruby Learning’s Poll: 20+ Rubyists are using Sinatra – Do You? Sinatra is a Ruby framework for quickly creating web appli...

very psyched to have found this…  Trac: http://labs.urielkatz.com/wiki/JStORM  Intro by the developer: http://www.urielkatz.com/archive/detail/introducing-jstorm/ Posted via email from Richard...

Last month, I posted my first set of five Ruby-related blogs for your delectation. Here’s five more for your RSS reader...

Last week I gave my talk on Agile Banking at Reboot 11. This week I have taken my talk and turned it into a series of blog articles that I will post here once a day. Douglas Jackson was an oncolog...

Ok I know this is a minor thing, but I would really like to have week numbers in my Google Calendar. Apparently this is not something that Google Calendar supports out of the box. We here at 41concept...

The trial batch of our new course “Ruby Metaprogramming” started recently. On this occasion, RubyLearning caught up with author Paolo Perrotta (who is writing the book “Metaprogramming Ruby“) ...

Recently someone asked for a combination discount at the RailsKits store—he wanted to purchase both the SaaS Rails Kit and the Helpdesk Rails Kit to get his site rolling quickly. I didn’t have co...

It has been a while since I blogged here. Have been busy with life and other things but plan to restart a more technology focused blogging effort here and see where that takes us. Also have been explo...

This is a Ruby script which randomly copies mp3 files from one directory to an mp3 player. I wrote it so I could easily fill up my mp3 player from the 9000 odd mp3s I have on a different external driv...