Why Open Source is Better for Your Business than Microsoft
I think everyone in the technology field knows Microsoft, you either love them or you hate them.? It seems there are more haters these days than those that love them and it is often times their own fault.
Apple : Please Fix the App Store Search
It?s a great time to be a developer today and the innovation Apple is putting forth with iOS gives developers a great platform for which to create applications.
Moving Instant Rails Forward
It has been a long time since InstantRails has been brought up-to-date and I had been wondering if the community had any continued interest in the project.
How-To Tether with Android and PDAnet
One of the annoying things with a non-jailbroken iPhone is the lack of tethering. Tethering is the ability to use your 3G-enabled phone and its Internet connection with a computer. When I am on the road I find times it would be helpful to be able to tether my Droid...
Android Fragmentation is Disturbing
A recent blog post over on the TweetDeck blog shows just how fragmented the Android phone market is already, and we have just begun.
Droid X Replaces My Apple iPhone
This blog post was a lot harder to write than I initially expected. I wanted to not come off biased against either platform but offer just a view of my hands-on experience with both devices.
Makandra Notes for Rails Developers
The Ruby Rails consulting shop Makandra recently opened their internal knowledge base of how-tos and code snippets for all to see and use. The announcement about the project indicates 500+ links:
Delete Large Numbers of Amazon S3 Files using Ruby
I recently found I problem I needed to solve; remove hundreds of thousands of files from Amazon S3. I mean, it had to be a common problem, right? Well, it certainly be a common problem but the solution was less than common.
Where Are We Without Community?
I came across a really interesting blog post yesterday with a recurring theme.? It was by developer Dave Newman titled, Leaving .net.? Does it sound familiar?? It does to me and after reading Dave?s post, the reasons are a familiar sound. So many .NET shops have their heads buried in...
Running Rails 3 on Windows
Well, the long-awaited release of Ruby on Rails 3 is now out and all of the Mac and Linux junkies are busy gem-installing the latest version of the framework.? What about all the lonely Windows developers out there looking through their windows (pun intended) and wondering what it?s like on...