Having Trouble Updating to Latest RubyGems on the Mac? Try This.
I wanted to install the official release of Merb 1.0 but found I needed to have RubyGems 1.3 installed to do so, no big deal right? Well, on my MacBook Pro running 10.5, I found running the usual command to update RubyGems:
Getting jQuery Intellisense Functioning in Visual Studio 2008
It was announced today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference that Visual Studio 2008 supports Intellisense for jQuery with an additional file available from jQuery. The file is available from Google Code.
Visual Studio 2008 Tips I Should Know
Stephen Walther had a great, practical post recently on his blog with a set of tips and tricks to help developers make better use of Visual Studio 2008. I have to admit I didn’t know many of these tips and wonder what else I might be missing. I will pay...
Easy Dynamic Style Sheets in HMTL Pages using ASP.NET
One of my current projects consists of a lot of existing static HTML documents that I need to work with and integrate with ASP.NET. The idea is to change as few of the static HTML files as possible as they are fine the way they are but allow new ASP.NET...
Observation : Rails Consulting Rates Lower Than .NET Rates
I have been an independent developer for the past few years doing all of my commercial work in the .NET platform. In the past year or so I have been doing more Rails development driven by my interest in Ruby. I had the opportunity lately to take on some additional...
Upgrading My MacBook Pro Hard Drive
I have been using my MacBook Pro more and more lately and quickly finding hard drive space shrinking. The addition of VMWare Fusion and some virtual machines seems to eat up hard drive space pretty quickly. The stock 160G Fujitsu 5400rpm hard drive is also a bit slower than I...
Turning Down the Social Noise
It was about a month ago and I was sitting here in my home office reading some Twitter tweets and catching up on some blog reading and a series of tweets came by the screen from one of the .NET folks with the loudest mouth and the least to say...
The Dell Mini Arrives - First Impressions
I ordered a Dell Mini the day after they were announced and available to order. I had been looking for a small laptop for writing and remote work. Under consideration was the Asus models as well as the Acer Aspire One but when arriving at my local Best Buy and...