When is an Airport Not an Airport?
When its a mall, a kennel, a wireless hotspot, or a restaurant. Here at the 50th AAAE Northeast Chapter meeting the session I was most looking forward to was…
Rails Deployment Tips with RimuHosting VPS
Weve been using RimuHosting.com`s VPS servers for a couple of small prototype style RoR applications that dont warrent the “full” treatment of their own dedicated servers in a clustered,…
Relaunch of Charlottesville Dot Net User Group
Last week I decided to learn a bit more about .NET, and attended the relaunch of the Charlottesville .NET User Group who was featuring Geoff Snowman talking about Windows…
beCamp 2008 Rocked!
Well, the thank you notes to sponsors and volunteers have been written and mailed, the venue has been cleaned up, and the accounting for funds spent has been dealt…
Trip Report: Shenandoah Ruby User Group
Last night Joe Meade and I road tripped up to the Shenandoah Ruby User Group (ShRUG) meeting in Harrisonburg, Virginia, hosted at the RosettaStone offices.We went there to find…
Adding timeout to Net::HTTP.get_response
One of the parts of Ruby that shows the languages lack of maturity is the Net::HTTP module. There are a lot of magic techniques that people have learned to…
FOSE is the Federal Open Source Expo?
FOSE means:“Free/Open Source Expo” – Scott McNealy, Chairman of Sun Microsystems“Federal Open Source Expo” – Eric Pugh, Principal of OpenSource Connections When the chairman of a company that spends…
Semantic Web isn’t meant to help LinkedIn (and Facebook, and MySpace)
There was a great post on TechCrunch about Yahoo embracing the semantic web. Basically, the semantic web is the ability to extract meaning from unstructured content. So if LinkedIn…
Multiple Field custom validations in Rails
I just took a spin around the bowls of ActiveRecord Validations trying to create a validator that would check if one, and only one, field of a set of…
Sucking in the header and footer from a remote site
How do you share a common header and footer across multiple apps? For example, you might be prototyping a new app, and want to borrow the main sites header…
Comparing DateTime and Date
For my project Novo, Ive been working on a script to sync my Apple iCal to Googles gCal. Think of it as a poor mans version of SpanningSync. One…
RE: System logs as reproducible scripts
Duane Gran recently pinged me about thoughts on “System logs as reproducible scripts”. Its a topic that Ive been running into recently as weve gone into testing a web…