I just received this letter in the mail last week (click to view the large version) regarding AT&T sharing information with third-parties (personal information removed): One of my (many) favorite parts: To allow AT&T to use your CPNI, no further action is required. CPNI, or Customer Proprietary Network Information, is your phone usage and other [...]
I read an interesting thread on The Business of Software about switching from C# to Ruby on Rails. Here are some of my favorites: I tried Rails before and it felt like php (editing in Notepad and using command-line tools). When Rails comes up with an IDE like Visual Studio + Intellisense, I’ll consider it. [...]
I rarely post things like this, but this is one of the most innovative music videos since A-ha’s Take On Me: “Myself and a couple have friends have entered the above into the Modest Mouse video competition. Using green screen footage provided by the band we cut a simple music video. We then degraded the [...]
I can recall when I first picked up a Palm Vx how excited I was to start writing code for it. I had one of the early versions of Java on it (from JavaOne ’99), but found most of what I needed to write a complete Palm application was missing. So, I picked up one [...]
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If you need to render ERB markup that is stored in a database or a string, I discovered an easy way (though finding it was a little harder). I found a tip via a Robby On Rails blog post, which led me to the ticket he opened with a patch and a comment from the [...]
After about 2 years of using Rails, I realized that I haven’t updated my rubygems installation since I first started. I started to upgrade by downloading rubygems 0.9.3 and running the setup.rb and I encountered the following error: hook C:/downloads/rubygems-0.9.3/rubygems-0.9.3/./post-install.rb failed: install directory # not absolute Since I work on Windows, the various forum posts [...]
I have to say – I’m hooked on Software as a Service (SaaS). I’ve been using quite a few services personally, but I know I’m truly hooked when I refuse to use anything not offered as SaaS for my web application. If it isn’t as easy as adding in a Javascript tag or calling a [...]
In the continuing saga of making soap4r work under Rails, I’ve found another issue that needs to be noted. Under some operating systems, the following exception was being raised: soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/xsd/xmlparser/parser.rb:33:in `create_parser’: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! (NoMethodError) If you see this error, there is a Google Groups discussion that documents [...]
I recently wrapped up a short project bridging a Rails application to the Lyris ListManager API. One of things I had to do was use soap4r to support client calls over SOAP to the ListManager services. I the midst of the development, I encountered the following problem: NameError: uninitialized constant SOAP::Mapping::EncodedRegistry While I found some [...]
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