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...

The Amish The Amish are a people who, besides their basic and very traditional way of life, have a firm grasp on the principles of simplicity. They do not have cell phones, computers, television or in...

In my previous post I covered building a simple C extension written in Ruby. There are times however that you may need to call functions defined in an existing native library. Fortunately there is a t...

Just got back from Fudcon Blacksburg. As always, it was a great time. Arrived after driving down (10 hrs) Thursday evening and crashed quickly after checking into my accommodations (The Inn at Virgini...

I needed to added my public key to a couple of servers the same day. After having done it twice, I thought of writing a bash script to pull my key from a public url at dropbox and append it to the aut...

It's fairly old, but this is still a good basic reference to SEO and link-building Just be aware that IPL2 is no longer accepting link submissions. You have to register as an editor for joeant to be ...

Dear [Under-Capitalized Business-Guy who wants me to work on your site for 'equity'], Thanks for taking time to meet today. It was interesting to learn about what you’re doing. I’ve put some thoug...

DNS stands for "Domain Name System", but you could google that information yourself and find definition online. What you could not find online is very short and absolutely minimal DNS guide for develo...

Okay, I’ve been slacking off and that’s coming to an end. As part of my “stop being a lazy prat†campaign for the New Year I’m going to be posting here weekly. I’ll think of it as publical...

Scraping Rackspace for your API Key In the not too distant past, I decided that I would like to be able to retrieve my Rackspace API Key in a programmatic way. The tool I choose to use was none othe...

Ciao a tutti! Cerchiamo aiuto per alcuni progetti in Ruby on Rails a partire dal nuovo anno (2012): Ruby on Rails MySQL jQuery Interessato? Mandaci una mail o vieni a trovarci a Lastra a Signa in ...

TL;DR: don’t run bundle exec before rails command, rails already checks the presence of Bundler through the Gemfile and sets up everything according to it without the overhead of bundle exec. rails ...

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Two weeks ago I posted a short information concerning picking a topic for my Ruby-related e-book. I also included a link to a short, one-question survey and promised (in one of the comments) to post t...

As a programmer that loves frameworks like Ruby on Rails, one frustration I always had with .Net was the lack of frameworks that were easy to use and just worked. When I started work at my current emp...

Amazon's recent launch of their new Kindle Fire device delivered an interesting surprise: their Silk browser routes all requests via an Amazon powered SPDY proxy! In principle, this is not new; Opera,...

Yazacak başka bir şey bulamıyorum, başlık yeterince açıklıyor. Bakalım fatura dönemi geldiğinde 15 gün hizmet veremediklerini hatırlayacaklar mı? İyi çalışmalar.

Recently I had the honor to speak at RubyConf Argentina 2011 (which I must say was a blast). My talk was titled Tirando Ruby por la Ventana, which translates to Throwing Ruby through the Window The ta...