A Web 2.0 Bubble?
Reuters reported this morning that the number of contributors to many Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube and Flickr is much smaller than the number of people who come…
Upgrading to Subversion 1.4 on a Fedora Core 4 Server
Yesterday Eric asked me to upgrade our Subversion version from 1.2 to 1.4 in order to take advantage of the new XML responses needed by CruiseControl.rb. My first clue…
Producing HTML output from NUnit?
As part of our build process we run NUnit and NCover over some C# code. We are currently focusing on getting our code coverage up from the measly ~18%…
Google Calendar API accepts bad data!
If youve been reading my posts lately, youve noticed lots of posts about parsing working with Time and Dates in Ruby. This has been because my hobby project has…
Figuring out the local timezone in Ruby on OSX
I am starting to hit some of the odd corners of Ruby. For example, I want to know what the local timezone of my Mac is. I can run…
Does the virtual world equal the real world?
This is the question that the FBI is asking of Second Life as they investigate Second Lifes casinos. The three biggest casinos, according to the CNN article, make $1,500/month…
Eric’s Ruby Gems
Following Mike Clark’s idea. Im curious to see what gems Ive got installed in 6 months! xativa:~ eric$ gem list|grep ‘^[a-zA-Z]’actionmailer (1.3.2, 1.3.1, 1.2.5, 1.2.4, 1.2.3, 1.2.1, 1.1.3, 1.0.1)actionpack…
Business Process Management and Workflow
Business Process Management (BPM) is increasingly appearing in technical articles and executive seminars, but most of the developers I talk to misinterpret BPM to be MBA jargon for workflow…
Is your employees’ time your time?
A recent survey by Clearswift and Yougov shows that 59% of all employees aged 18-29 believe that they should be able to use Web 2.0 social networking sites for…
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…
A nice surprise courtesy of Continuum: Easy updating of repository information
I discovered an unexpected feature that Continuum has. At one client site we are building around 30 different projects from CVS. Over the weekend the DNS name of the…
Congratulations!
Congratulations to OSC principal Scott Stults and his wife on the birth of their first baby, a healthy and as of yet unnamed son. Naturally, Scott cannot allow something…