Google helps put a stake in the IE6 coffin, finally
If you are a web developer, you know the pain that is Internet Explorer 6. You know how hard and tedious it is to add support for IE6 to your web application and maintain it once released.
2010 - The Year Ahead
2009 was a very interesting year, a year of some realization and a year which helped lay the foundation for the year ahead and hopefully the future.
I Am Not a Master but a Solutionist
I stumbled upon an interesting essay by Zed Shaw recently titled “The Master, The Expert, The Programmer” pointed out by Avdi Grimm. One part that stuck out in my mind was this excerpt:
2009 Year in Review
Well the past 12 months have gone by really fast, again. It seems I always tell myself this each New Year’s Eve. So looking back on 2009:
Fixing Uninitialized Constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes Error on Snow Leopard
Recently I ran into a problem on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard when trying to connect to a MySQL database. The current version of the gem (2.8.1) installed fine but when trying to use it, I received the following error:
Mindscape LightSpeed an O/R Mapper Done Right
Anyone who reads this blog knows I work with quite a bit of different technologies, some I love and some I just tolerate. One of the technologies I love is Ruby on Rails, for many different reasons, but one huge reason is the way it allows the developer to interface...
Enabling Wireless on a Dell Mini 9 Running Ubuntu 9.1 Netbook Remix
I have had a Dell Mini 9 for quite some time now and played around installing various flavors of Linux on it, more as an exercise than anything else. The recently release of Ubuntu 9.1 which has a distribution configured especially for netbooks, piqued my interest. The download is called...
The Solid-State Drive (SSD) Experience in a MacBook Pro
I recently purchased a late model 2009 Apple MacBook Pro which came with a 500G 5400 RPM drive. After many years of using a laptop on a daily basis I quickly came to realize that one of the biggest factors in laptop performance was a slow hard drive. I think...
New Laptop Purchase Harder Than Expected
I have been running on a couple of very old laptops, one a Dell Latitude D820 and my main laptop is an Apple MacBook Pro (Intel, pre-unibody). These laptops still work but have been feeling a bit slow over the past few months, never repaved the MacBook Pro but kept...