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Flexible Payments With Rails & REST

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Anyone who’s been playing around with the original Rails version of the Amazon Flexible Payments Service sample application has probably spent a fair...

NHRuby: Shoes. And Belts. And You!

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
If you’re in the greater NH/Maine/Mass seacoast area, don’t forget to check out tomorrow’s NHRuby group. Sir Brian DeLacey will be visiting...

OS X Leopard Upgrade Notes

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Starting this blog entry to document any possible gotchas I experience on my upgrade to OS X 10.5. So far everything has been relatively clean. My only...

NetBeans Rocks

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
NetBeans really is the BOMB, as Charles Nutter notes over on his blog. Check out that link. I wanted to make sure I echoed his thoughts here, because for...

Links For 11.10.07

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
FreeBSD 7.0 is is going to own scaling. Srsly. RC1 should be available this week. Rails 2.0 RC1 is here. Have you fixed those deprecation warnings...

Turn On Your Buzzword Filter

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
BigLove [12:37am]: my eyes crossed from all the buzzwords zapnap zapnap [12:38am]: turn on your buzzword filter. OMFG WHERE DID T EH INTERNETS GO?...

Digital Comics, Unlimited?

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a bit of a comic book geek. When I was a kid, I was a hardcore fanboy who spent pretty nearly all his paper...

Book Review: Practical Ruby Gems

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I’ve been meaning to start posting book reviews for some time now. I don’t really have a good excuse as to why I haven’t, so I’ll...

Steinbeck on Ruby?

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.” — John Steinbeck...

EC2 Deployment with Rubber

~2 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
At NH.rb last night I gave a talk about deploying web applications to the EC2 cloud with Rubber. Rubber is an extension to Capistrano written by Matt Conway...