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Geeking Out on Ruby On Rails and Heroku

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Arcterex

Lately I’ve gotten re-interested in the Ruby On Rails framework. It’s not only because of it’s sort of… “new hotness” that’s out there on the net, but it’s got a lot of neat technologies that are being used. Also this is all close enough to the work on webapps that I’m used to doing, but …

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Random Links of the Day

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Arcterex

Went to the Fraser Valley Ruby on Rails meetup tonight. Organized by a guy who now works under one of my ex-bosses from back in the dot com days, basically a group of geeks interested in the Ruby on Rails framework who get together and geek out. I’ve only been to two meetings so far, …

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Ruby Camp 2008 Review

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Arcterex

Today I went to my first Vancouver Ruby Camp, a set of talks by people in the local Ruby and Ruby on Rails community. Translation for non-techies out there… a complete geek-fest! It was great 🙂 Honestly my RoR experience is near nil, and my Ruby experience consists of reading a book on the train …

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Source code for Consumating

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Arcterex

Darn you Darren, first not coming out this week and then pointing me to clonesumating as a possible drop in replacement for the aging P2P. Note to self so I don’t forget about this link….

Perl Programming Assist Please

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Arcterex

I’m going crazy here, my brain apparently fried from the weekend or the water or something, looking for some perl assistance from my perl-knowledgeable buds (you know who you are… 🙂 I’m creating a menu system and converting entries in a database into a perl data structure that I can then parse to create an …

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The FizzBuzz Test

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Arcterex

Interesting way of determining how good a programmer is on Imran’s blog, called the FizzBuzz. I took it to make sure I wasn’t a crappy comp-sci grad who couldn’t program and discovered happily I could. Took just under four minutes to complete, though part of the extra time was I forgot how the ‘%’ operator …

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Handy Forms Tip for Web Developers in Mozilla

Posted on August 16, 2006 by Arcterex

I’m probably the last person in the world to discover this, but I finally figured out something useful for the Mozilla/Firefox “view page info” property box available from the context menu. I’ve seen this before of course, even clicked it a few times, mostly accidently. Basically it displays, information about the page. Media type, links, …

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The Push is Ov…. Oh Never Mind

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Arcterex

Well it looks like my latest consulting project is wrapped up. Still one more tiny bit of functionality waiting to go, but I’m waiting on them for the info on how to do it. Really just a matter of “where do the files get uploaded”. It’s a great relief too, I was starting to think …

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Contract Programmers – How Do You Bill?

Posted on July 9, 2006 by Arcterex

For the last few years I’ve done contract programming work. Sometimes on the side, and sometimes as my full time job. Lately I’ve had some projects that I feel I’ve gotten… lets just say the short end of the stick. This seems to happen when I’m the subcontractor and put in an hourly quote, and …

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Dear Javascript Gurus out There…

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Arcterex

I have a bit of code that is using the excellent free XUpload progress bar. I’ve modified it a bit for my current project, and am having some performance issues due to some javascript I added. What happens is the main <FORM> tag has an onSubmit() action of calling a StartUpload() function. I’ve added code …

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