This week marks the official launch of a project we have been busy working on for the past few months. Since October we have been putting together mobile and web apps for a startup in Perth called Syn...

docs.seattlerb.org/net-http-persistent github.com/drbrain/net-http-persistent Manages persistent connections using Net::HTTP plus a speed fix for Ruby 1.8. It’s thread-safe too! Using persisten...

Last week I was asked whether I knew how to set up a dyndns server. Well, I didn’t at that time, but I did some research. This is what I found. First, problem description. At home,you have a FritzBo...

During all these years, capistrano has been for me a magical gnome that I invoke by saying “cap deploy, my magical friend!†and then I close my eyes, sing a happy song in my head and when the gnom...

I’m happy to announce that I have joined Elizabeth Hendrickson as Co-Chair of the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools group (AAFTT, yes the name is a bit of a mouthful). I came across the AAFTT ...

With the increasing availability of big/open data more people discover a need to make it understandable. One ...

Estamos empezando el desarrollo de un proyecto (creo que los llaman mashups) para probar las APIs de Open movilforum. Se trata de tvienes, un servicio que te ayuda a organizar quedadas con tus amigos ...

Registrations are now open for RubyLearning’s popular Ruby programming course. This is an intensive, online course for beginners that helps you get started with Ruby programming. Here is what Sandra...

A Gonow está com vagas para desenvolvedores Ruby on Rails. É necessário experiência com programação em Ruby para Web (frameworks Ruby on Rails). São projetos em diversos clientes. Algumas oport...

When you create a spatial database using PostGIS, you may notice that PostGIS automatically installs a table called “spatial_ref_sysâ€. This is a standard table for spatial databases, as required b...

<script src="http://speakerdeck.com/embed/4f2ef2f30f6f270021003c9a.js">enable javascript to see slides</script> MCLEAN, VA — MoDevDC — At BusyConf, we leverage offline application ca...

My basic management concept for iptables (easy to maintain when you’re the owner and administrator of a server). I don’t like native iptables management way, so with little help from Google I’ve...

Like I promised in my previous post, I wanted to do a little something on D3.js. We are going to take one of their example visualizations and visualize a follows graph. To create our graph, we will ta...

It's the latest Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the weekly Ruby and Rails e-mail newsletter (which just tipped 11K subscribers). Ruby Weekly now has a 'tips' page where you can submit links for ...

RoR, Rails or Ruby on Rails are interchangeable terms but it only means one thing. For the Ruby programming language, it is an open source web application framework. It was David Hansson that derived ...

Building off my previous ~/.pryrc I wanted to automatically load up my core project Ruby file, spec_helper.rb, and fire off some initialization routines whenever I start a new Pry session in my projec...

A prologue Today, I use Sublime Text 2 for just about all my text editing needs. It is fast and fairly stable. It is customizable and it can use plugins from Textmate. It also allows me to have split ...

So many of us use vimrc files that are a frankenstein’s monster, cobbled together from spare parts, gists, and snippets from wikipedias. One day I decided I was no longer going to treat my vimrc as ...

Kimble aka Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz, and Kim Tim Jim Vestor ist wieder zuhause. Das FBI hat Megaupload abgeschaltet und Kimble in Neuseeland verhaften lassen.(FBI-Statement) Da haben wohl die SOPA-...

stores your passwords in a file on your disk encrypts the file with a master password is designed for every-day-use is written in 234 lines of understandable Ruby code… Read it! is tested...