February 3, 2008 – 2:40 am
I’m a Jets fan, but the NJ Giants are big in my neck of the woods - and the only team I dislike more than the Red Sox is the Patriots (sorry to my pals in Boston but this is football… :).
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 [...]
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 [...]
October 30, 2007 – 10:13 am
These guys crack me up. Good stuff…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99EHyG2jQA
Ruby vs. .NET Video
October 4, 2007 – 11:03 am
Last night Google announced the integration of email
compliance features into Google Apps Premier Edition. They also increased the Premier Edition’s 10GB inbox to 25GB.
This is big news for Google Apps. Compliance and archiving are huge concerns for corporate customers. Just ask Intel or Merrill Lynch. Full-blown compliance systems are typically [...]
September 27, 2007 – 10:46 am
Hmmm… maybe this whole Rails thing is just hype. I might start brushing up on assembler. In college, I was taught VAX assembler (not even x86!) so I am sure I’ll have no problems.
My favorite reason:
It’s small and fast
As mentioned above, small and slim, Assembler is THE fastest code on earth. Ruby [...]
September 25, 2007 – 4:55 pm
This is part 2 in a series of articles on converting both your mindset and your ASP.NET web sites to Rails. Inside I hope to help anyone coming from a .NET background that is looking to create new Rails apps, or migrating existing ones.
Before we go forward, I assume that you have [...]
September 18, 2007 – 9:17 pm
We recently migrated our corporate website from ASP.NET 2.0 to Rails. I am putting together a multipart series on migrating from ASP.NET to Rails, but in the meantime I thought I’d share some tidbits that I’ve come across that hopefully can help people who are otherwise scouring Google and the interwebs for information on [...]
September 14, 2007 – 3:33 pm
Folks,
I’ve had it with ASP.NET.
I had a simple missing tag on a Master page (I think VS2005 conveniently erased my form tag because I was trying to actually do something nifty), and it blew up our company web page.
I am going to convert http://www.ltech.com to Ruby on Rails from ASP.NET 2.0 / C#.
Ltech.com is a [...]
August 30, 2007 – 4:55 pm
If you are building geography based mashups in Rails, or just need some simple calculations for distance, be sure to check out GeoKit plugin and Geonames API Gem. They will save you hours of time.
What is GeoKit?
“Geokit is a Rails plugin for building location-based apps. It provides geocoding, location finders, and distance [...]
