By Daniel J. Pritchett on October 19, 2009
Today we’re going to take a detour into web programming using Ruby on Rails. The hardest part for me has been getting the development environment up and running. Some guides will walk you through setting up Ruby and then Rails directly on your Windows machine, but I abandoned that pretty quickly. You’ll soon grow tired [read more...]
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By Daniel J. Pritchett on January 30, 2009
I’ve only been at this for an hour or so, and already I’ve gotten a dev environment installed and working properly on this Vista laptop. This is a big step up from my attempts to install & run Ruby on Rails via Ubuntu Linux. I’m stepping through the Google App Engine howto docs [read more...]
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By Daniel J. Pritchett on January 21, 2009
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Welcome to the first video installment of Sharing at Work! Tonight I’ll tell you what I’ve learned recently about web-based video chat, conferencing, and blogging on both Windows Vista and Ubuntu [read more...]
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