The ads they run on Facebook are getting downright annoying. I’m confident I’m not alone in this feeling. Here’s a beginner’s tutorial describing how you can prevent Facebook ads from being displayed. You also pick up a few other nice features in the process. 1. Download and install Firefox If … Continue reading
You’ve got about a week left to get your proposals in for a talk at the Ruby Hoedown, the South’s regional Ruby conference. Speakers will receive free admission and an as of yet undetermined honorarium along with dinner the night before the conference. (C’mon, you can’t possibly pass up free … Continue reading
If you know anything at all about public speaking, your perception of it is probably that it’s a playground for salespeople, marketers, and trainers; an outlet for extroverted businesspeople to practice their presentations to upper management. This is certainly true, but there is another group that can gain enormous benefit … Continue reading
I’ve been generally displeased with my Motorola RAZR. Sprint gave it to me over a year ago and aside from terribly poor battery life, it has one of the worst user interfaces I’ve ever seen on a phone. Despite that, it’s very compact and since my Sprint plan doesn’t expire … Continue reading
wget -O filename.png “http://some.url/folder/some_image.png” And to upload the same file using Capistrano: task :something do put File.read(“filename.png”), “#{deploy_to}/remote_filename.png” end
I began getting a strange error message from git earlier this week: key_read: uudecode (random SSH key junk here) ssh-rsa (more random SSH key junk here) failed The error message only showed up when I ran git pull. Google didn’t find much to help me, but acting on a hunch … Continue reading
Has your career been a random product of your manager’s whims or company’s needs? Never rely on your company to keep your skills current and marketable. Take control of your own career with a proven strategy. Jared Richardson presents a talk titled “Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life” at … Continue reading
Motivation is generally the natural result of what we’re doing. We’re motivated to get a license so we can drive to the store. We’re motivated to learn a new programming language because our current job is boring. We’re motivated to lose weight because we want to look like the people … Continue reading
The Ruby Hoedown moves to Hunstville, Alabama this year. I’m filling Nathaniel’s place as co-organizer this go round, along with Jeremy McAnally who was the driving force behind the conference last year too. We’re cooking up a good mix of Ruby talks. It’s not too late to get your own … Continue reading
The test_spec_on_rails plugin, which provides some nice helpers for testing Rails applications when using test/spec, has moved from Subversion to Git. Check out the profile page or clone the repository itself from this path: git://github.com/pelargir/test_spec_on_rails.git