Using RadRails
I have been on a frenzy lately trying to find a good development environment for doing Rails development on Windows XP as well as on my Mac. I downloaded and unzipped RadRails to see how well this environment works. RadRails is based on the opensource editor and development system Eclipse....
Instant Rails Tutorial
I found this great tutorial on getting started with Instant Rails. I used this tutorial to get started. It is a great summary of all the parts and pieces tossed into Instant Rails, what they are and how to know your way around them. I highly recommend this as a...
Are all software bugs worth fixing?
I am a subscriber and fan of Jeff Atwood’s blog. Jeff has an interesting post worth checking out if you deal with the same things I do on a daily basis, dealing with bugs and fixing them…or not. Jeff’s post outlines some standard procedures for going from giving your code...
New podcast, HanselMinutes
I subscribe to many podcasts in my iTunes client, subscribing to one here and there and dropping just as many. I have yet to find many that stick because many don’t get it, I don’t want to hear idle chit-chat. A new podcast by Scott Hanselman called HanselMinutes has just...
My New Apple Mac Mini
I decided the Apple MacBook Pro was not meant to be at this time. Apple has put them on backorder for another 3-4 weeks and they are out of my price range for the current processor speed so I bought a Apple Mac Mini (PowerPC G4 1.5 Ghz, 512MB RAM,...
Discovering Instant Rails 1.0
Over the last couple months I have been learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails, the Ruby framework from 37Signals.? Searching the web for these technologies turns up a ton of sources for everything Ruby and the cult like following of Ruby on Rails. For someone, like myself, just getting into...
I want an Apple MacBook Pro
I watched the Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote on Tuesday from MacWorld after learning several month ago that Apple was moving from PowerPC processors to new Intel dual core processors.
Foxit Software PDF Reader
I recently read a post over on Scott Hanselman’s blog about Foxit Software’s PDF reader. This is a PDF reader to replace Adobe Acrobat Reader. I have to admit, I HATE Adobe Acrobat Reader. It’s slow, it’s bloated, it stays in memory after use and it’s unpredictable.
Exploring Ruby
I started playing around with Ruby back in the fall to see what all the hype was about and learn a bit about a language that is not by Microsoft, not because I wanted to stay clear of Microsoft but to try something different. As I mentioned before my career...
The Graying Software Industry
Sahil Malik has a great post on the aging of the people in the software industry. The gist of the post is how the ambition and drive of the developer changes as they get older. I had posted about this and Information overload back in September 2005