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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Prediction: Google will out flank, disrupt, and split Microsoft apart

December 17, 2007 – 1:16 pm

I am seeing things in the marketplace that make me believe that Google will in fact out flank Office and disrupt Microsoft to a degree that few expected just a year ago.
First of all, there is a drum beating in the media for an epic battle between Mister Softie and Google. The article this [...]

By ed | Posted in .net, google apps, microsoft | Comments (0)

soap4r vs. Rails: Uninitialized constant when using 1.5.8 with Rails

December 3, 2007 – 12:56 pm

If the soap4r gem (version 1.5) is breaking your workstation or servers, it might be because there are conflicts between Rails and soap4r both in source code, and in the community. We’ll discuss the source code fix first:
If you are getting this error:

Uninitialized constant when using 1.5.8 with Rails

When running your Rails [...]

By ed | Posted in rails, ruby, soap4r | Comments (0)