Lone Star Ruby Conference 2008

coding webPublished September 6, 2008 at 11:59 am No Comments

The LSRC has definitely gotten better for me as I am now developing a stronger understanding of not just Rails but Ruby. I am still not a hardcore developer but I am thinking that will change this year. This year the focus was on how to make things move faster, here is what I learned:
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yapb 1.9.4 BETA and WordPress 2.6 are like oil and water

codingPublished July 22, 2008 at 9:49 pm No Comments

So it has been MONTHS since I posted an image to my photoblog, yet I have been keeping that site current with the latest versions of plugins and WordPress releases.  Well today I finally had an image I found interesting enough to post and ran into problems. It seems the new post revision feature of
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Test me!

codingPublished June 21, 2008 at 12:33 am No Comments

So a head hunter sent me an email about a php job here in Austin. Here is an excerpt: <strong>PHP Test Instructions</strong> If you are interested in the freelance PHP position, please complete and submit the attached PHP test within 24 hours of receiving it. Inside the attachment you will find the instructions to the
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Powershell, thank you MS…

codingPublished February 14, 2008 at 3:04 pm No Comments

Who knew I would ever become so comfortable with the BASH shell. So much so that working in window’s cmd.exe slows you down dramatically. Where is my ls, ps, cp, rm, etc. I am a two letter lover! Well, it seems folks over at MS has been working on a similar shell and ported a
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Turn an idea in under six hours for $30

codingPublished October 25, 2007 at 11:40 am No Comments

I was reading the other day in my local newspaper about how a couple of developers are testing out the model of doing code storms and see if they can turn an idea into a product with a short turn around time. Simple idea that never seemed to be exploited until now. With such cheap
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