Since del.icio.us decided to have a bit of downtime this past week I have decided to update my del.icio.us backup script a bit more. Before it would just grab all the posts and overwrite the old file. Issue is when they were bringing the system back up my script happily wrote an http error to …
Tag: programming
Let Users Run the Latest Version Easily
If you are a software developer, you might know how hard it is to keep users running the most up to date versions of your software. WIndows is (in)famous for making users run Software Update all the time or bugging you to update with those silly message bubbles that will not go away. The OSX …
Choosing Names in Your Database
At work I was working on a simple Ruby on Rails project that is basically going to use CRUD to store, edit, and view information, something simple. I kept getting really weird errors with my scaffolding. After much mangling done with my database and code I found the problem was that I named a field …
Accounting on Rails
For my first project on Rails I will be making a fully fledged business accounting setup. It will be fully web-based and is targeted at medium and small sized businesses. I got a little bit of it done, and will work on it as I get time. Hopefully in a month I will have a …