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The Roar of the Lion, and of "Open" Source Developers

7 months ago by pogodan on Talk Like A Duck.
I took the plunge this weekend, and installed Lion on my personal MacBook Pro. First I made sure I had a bootable backup of my Snow Leopard install. Then...

Initial Thoughts on Lion

7 months ago by pogodan on Talk Like A Duck.
So Lion has been downloaded from the App Store and waits to be installed on my personal MacBook Pro. I'm waiting a few days to see how much smoke appears...

Installing Oracle on OS X Snow Leopard

7 months ago by pogodan on Talk Like A Duck.
One of my current work rails projects at SciMed Solutions has a requirement to use an Oracle database. I just spent a frustrating day or so installing Oracle...

Rails-Footnotes Resurrected For Rails 3

9 months ago by pogodan on Talk Like A Duck.
A few weeks ago I noticed that there was some recent maintenance activity on the old rails-footnotes gem. I used to use this years ago. Among other things...

Prime Documentaries on Design

11 months ago by on Talk Like A Duck.
A few weeks ago, Amazon.com added a nice benefit to Amazon Prime membership, free video streaming. They don't (yet) have a catalog as extensive as say...

Algorithm Choice Trumps Programming Language Choice For Performance

11 months ago by on Talk Like A Duck.
My friend Brian Adkins just published an article on his blog comparing the performance of his Haskell program to find the longest palindrome in a string...

Automatic Annotation with Rails 3 With the Annotate Gem

~1 year ago by on Talk Like A Duck.
One of the oldest Rails plugins is annotate_models which was originally written by Prag Dave Thomas. For those few of you who might not have run across...

Time Flies, The Anniversary Gem is Already 2.0.0

~1 year ago by on Talk Like A Duck.
I just pushed two versions of the anniversary gem Version 1.0.2 fixed a bug which I found when trying to answer one of the comments on my original blog...

They Say It's Your Birthday?!

~1 year ago by on Talk Like A Duck.
As I mentioned earlier today, I've started a new job which involves, among other things working on medical support applications. One recent task was generating...

Abstract vs Concrete Approaches to Learning

~1 year ago by on Talk Like A Duck.
Once again discussion on the internets have prompted me to write an article. Last weekend, someone posed a question to the ruby language forum about whether...