Thanks to http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article.php/3800716/Create-a-Twitter-Mood-Graph-With-Ruby.htm, I finally have a twitter search feed working. The link shows how to generate a graph based on tweets, which maybe helpful later. ...

At home, I have a dell xps400 that was just trying to deal with windows XP. A friend of mine recommended Ubuntu. So, what do i do? I download the ISO, burn a CD with it on it, and plug it into my xps machine. "No boot device found" It's going to b...

Git commands (will be updated to add more later) git status -- show me everything that has changed on my local machine (what did i modify, add, delete) git add . -- for my local versioning repository, add all the files that I have created git comm...

So I heard about a new Ruby gem that we might be using for our project. My work computer is still windows and while I feel like fred flintstone on it, I'm still relatively productive. So I open up my console to install the gem: Whoops - issue. Wai...

So yesterday, I finished by getting a basic product catalog setup in rails (example from the book "Agile Web Development with Rails". I couldn't recommend this book enough for starting out. Validation Any data validation occurs in the model compon...

Why Ruby is supposed to be slicker, faster, and easier web-programming than everything else out there. At work, we are hoping that's true and are building our next-gen product on it. Docs Booster-seat: http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Web-Development-R...

The weekend project for me is installing VMWare & Linuz on my HP Pavilion Windows 7 laptop. Why? Linux provides more system and network level controls and is frankly easier to develop in. I'll be following this guide: http://www.lifehack.org/artic...

Product after product, the question eventually comes from the customer - "How can I see who made what change and when they made them"? The easiest way to implement audit trails is triggers on the database tables - recording the edit user and edit ...