Python Week 2 – Package Managment

September 23, 2011

Dependency management is usually a pain in most environments so a lot of effort goes into solving the problem. It is usually interesting to see how different communities solve the problem, and how many alternatives are available solving it. In the .NET world the main solution is NuGet. In Ruby it is RubyGems. There are [...]

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Python Week 1 – Language First Impressions

September 16, 2011

Starting a new language can always be daunting, but when you have a good experience doing so the rewards can be great. I am going to try and do another series of posts about my experience learning python similar to my “Week on Ruby” posts. I first wanted to hit on my first impressions of [...]

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Learn Python the Hard Way – Review

September 15, 2011

Life tends to push you in directions you don’t expect, and it has for me. Recently I have felt I am being pushed to learn python based on a various situations and conversations that have arrived. So, I decided to sit down and learn python, and let me tell you it has been a fun [...]

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update_attributes Takes a Hash Not an Object

March 28, 2011

Sometimes you need to break rails convention to achieve specific goals. Unfortunately, this can lead to some not so pretty code which doesn’t allow you to use as many of the rails niceties that exist, if you do everything by default. One of the things that makes it tough at times to do rails development [...]

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Getting RSpec to Work With New and Existing Rails Projects

March 21, 2011

Part 1: General Installation and Using with a new Rails Project We are going to install rspec for our testing framework and autotest is going to be the actual thing that runs all your tests. How, autotest works is it watches for when a file has been modified. If it sees that a file has [...]

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Fresh OS X Install to Running RVM

March 4, 2011

These are the steps to getting RVM going after a fresh install of OS X. It is pretty easy, just quite a few steps. I was walking a friend through this on Skype and it seemed very convoluted so I decided to make a more well formated how-to. Most, not all, of these you can [...]

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Get Started with NSSavePanel in MacRuby

February 28, 2011

Save file dialog boxes have always seemed magical to me because I have never done any client side applications. While working on a MacRuby client app I needed to save a file, obviously, and it was amazing how simple a save file dialog box really is. What Does NSSavePanel Do? This is very simple. It [...]

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MySQL + RVM + Rails == PAIN

February 21, 2011

MySQL is awesome with RoR, but not RVM. I recently decided I wanted to test a few things on my Mac with RoR and MySQL since I run MySQL on my production server. Generally it is a good practice to run what is in production in your development environment. Unfortunately, RVM made this very difficult, [...]

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is_admin Security SMF and WordPress error

December 21, 2010

Integrating the SMF SSI.php file with wordpress tends to lead to a problem for some people, it was for me for a while. To get it to work takes 2 simple steps. 1) In your themes functions.php page add the following line: 2) Delete the is_admin() function at the bottom of the Sources/security.php file of [...]

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no such file to load — zlib – Solution

December 15, 2010

Installing ruby with RVM on Ubuntu seems to be a tricky endeavor. While RVM was installing ruby 1.9.2 it ended with an error. The ruby install seemed to work fine, but I got the following line close to the end: Problem error: Error running ‘/home/buddy/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/bin/gem update –system So I tried to run the command myself: [...]

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