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- A brief history of personal computing platforms. on Twitpic January 14, 2012
- PyPy Status Blog: Transactional Memory (II) January 14, 2012
- Creation of iPxe Bootable USB | AT@ Blogger January 11, 2012
- The Book Designer — Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books January 6, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/152807856356331520/photo/1) December 30, 2011
- Vim Text Objects: The Definitive Guide | The Carbon Emitter December 24, 2011
Category Archives: rails
Contributing back
In my Redmine investigations that I’ve been writing about recently, I ran across an issue between a plugin and the latest version of Redmine. I really don’t know the first thing about about rails – I can read it, but … Continue reading
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Redmine and a scrum board
After a few days of playing and working with Redmine and some plugins, here’s where I’ve ended up: Redmine 0.8.7 (latest stable branch) Mercurial repository redmine charts plugin (http://github.com/mszczytowski/redmine_charts) redmine backlog plugin (http://github.com/relaxdiego/backlogs) I tried the redmine scrumdashboard plugin (http://github.com/thus/redmine-scrumdashboard-plugin), … Continue reading
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integrated project management for development
Ironically, the choices for an in-house integrated project management toolchain are, to my mind, significantly more limited than the straight up open-source market. I have been looking and watching several projects over the past months for something that I could … Continue reading
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debugging Active Directory LDAP authentication in Redmine
What else does a geek do on Christmas eve? How about some ruby on rails debugging, especially when I don’t really know anything other than the basics of Ruby on Rails. So here’s what I’ve done and what I’ve learned, … Continue reading
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One of those interesting differences between python and ruby…
In fiddling with ruby, I noticed that the method names can be really interesting – rails (maybe others too, dunno) has some methods that look like: object.stop? which is typically used to return a boolean indicating wether or not “stop” … Continue reading
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Secret Weapons
As a generalist in the technology space, I’m constantly on the lookup for “Secret Weapons”. I’m not even sure when I first started using that euphemism, but that’s often how I think about a lot of technology. Ubuntu and/or Debian … Continue reading
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Ah! so that’s what happened…
I’ve spent most of the afternoon re-aquainting myself with Mac programming idioms, and generally getting myself into a veritable froth of possibilityand over-imagination about the CoreAnimation technologies. Outside of that, I finally backtracked into the world of Ruby on Rails to … Continue reading
Rails 2.0.2 is screwing me up
I think I picked a poor time to dive into and start learning Ruby on Rails. I’ve been reading and going through exercises from a fresh install and the plethora of great examples aren’t matching the new environment. It’s pretty … Continue reading
learning ruby
I picked up my copy of the Pickaxe book four years ago – it’s even signed by Dave Thomas. I started to learn and poke at it a couple of times, but didn’t make any serious forays into it. The … Continue reading