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 ...

FireSheep (http://www.codebutler.com/firesheep) is a firefox extension that allows anyone to snoop login information off of unsecured wireless connections. This includes, gmail, yahoo, cisco, foursquare, and facebook. It even gives you the ability...

I have a process that includes running complex server-side processing while a loading screen (or other screen) is displayed to the client. In a regular (HTTP) environment, this process can run several minutes with no timeouts. In an https environm...