I’ve been using a Mac for a couple of months now. My employer purchased a few for us coders to try out, and I’ve become spoiled. I rarely want to use my other machines now, as they seem cumbersome and inefficient. Mainly from a hardware perspective, as the OS itself seems to have plusses and... Continue reading →

I went to reinstall RVM (Ruby Version Manager) and got a message that the command wasn’t available. I realized, after fiddling around for a while that I didn’t have bash setup, and I had tried to run the standard quick install… just go to the blog entry. 😛 You can see all the bash &... Continue reading →

If you haven’t seen Marakana Videos I would suggest checking them out. Their site is at http://marakana.com/ where there are forums, more videos, and other great content. Their site focuses on Open Source Training. There are topics ranging from the above Node.js, HTML 5, Apacha Cassandra, and many more on the site. Continue reading →

A good friend of mine, Eric Sterling, has put together the most ultimate Dashboard EVER! A beer dashboard at Bailey’s Taproom. Bailey’s Beer Dashboard He put this together using Silverlight and worked with Jeff & team at Bailey’s to get it rendering perfectly on a giant flat screen. So now when you go to Bailey’s,... Continue reading →

I put together a little project on Github, partially because I’ve been making headway learning the intricacies of JavaScript, and partly because I wanted something that would parse a string that represents a time value. So here’s the TDD I went through. In the process I pulled in QUnit and used that as my testing... Continue reading →