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Alright, I’ve been stalled on Ruby on Rails for a few weeks. I just haven’t been able devote time to learning it. I also realized that if I wanted to be any good, I need a better knowledge of the fundamental language underneath everything…Ruby.
I’m currently grinding the through Learning Ruby by Satish Talim. I’ll [...]

I’ve been busy lately and have finally gotten back to Ruby on Rails. I’m just beginning to wrap my head around the Model View Controller paradigm and it seems like a smart way to approach things.
Data models, separate templates for views, and a controller to act as the traffic cop between the user, the browser [...]

Script.aculo.us is a repository for the fanciest of the fancy AJAX libraries for all you cutting-edge Web 2.0 kids. Just an FYI.

The voices touting the greatness of Ruby have become too loud to ignore. It’s time to give it a go. So, what’s a developer to do?
Well, this developer did two things. First, I found out how to download and install Ruby on Rails. I chose to use Instant Rails since I’m not a server administrator [...]

It’s been a few months now since a friend of mine asked me “have you seen this Ruby on Rails stuff?” I remember my first reaction being “eh,” I’ve got too much to worry about right now. However, RoR keeps bubbling back to the surface, and according to the “Getting Real” philosophy, that means it’s [...]

A recent project requires me to create a form that posts information to another URL. No problem, you say? Well you must not be using ASP.NET/C#. Instead of just action=”http://www.offsite.net”, you have to do the following ridiculous prostrations. Isn’t that just grand. Tomorrow I’m going back to plain ‘ol ASP 3.0. Old-school. Keepin’ it real. [...]

I’ve always been intruigued by the notion of building a Linux system, not from a canned distro, but from the ground up. I always wanted to see what all the fuss was about and how hard it would be to compile everything (and if I could even get it working at all).
Well, a friend of [...]

It’s day two of Sharepoint Webpart training. Today, we fight to the death! Er, not really. A closer look at security and the object model. Which will be good. I just wish I was better at C#. Coding interfaces is not exactly the peak of my skillset. I understand them conceptually, but they make my [...]

The good news is that everybody has problems with software. Even training centers technical glitches. Trial software expires. Overhead projectors cease to function. The better news is that I get to write this entry and consume some free coffee. Not the best tasting coffee, but the best priced coffee I’ve ever had.
Today we, and by [...]

I’m sure everyone’s had this problem (well, probably not, but hey, I did). You have a super-monkey-riffic SQL server full of bitchin’ data. You also have a standard-issue Redmond-compliant Microsoft server all souped up with the latest and greatest MSXML dll (see previous articles/lamentations). You want to call a stored procedure that will return [...]