The First Things This week, the first thing I did was give a solid read to Mark Phillip’s Blog “themarkphillips” (@pharkmillups). Here’s a break down of some entries I found really interesting and helpful in getting kick started here at Basho (or just really a good read in and of itself): Using Open Source to... Continue reading →

Alright, just for fun I’m kicking off a new blog series. I’m going to publish a new “Deploy a Framework Friday” each week for about the next, well, bunch of weeks. There are a TON of frameworks that are available on PaaS Technologies. This first entry I’m going to implement a simple Sinatra app with... Continue reading →

Installing the Latest Ruby, A Gotcha Generally, you’d just install rvm (Ruby Version Manager) and execute this command. rvm install 1.9.3 But alas, as happens sometimes, I ran into an issue related to the C compiler being found. Checking the log file for errors I found the message and went searching, finding … Continue reading →

First off, here’s a tour of my physical space where I do the bulk of my coding when I’m not travelling. The second bit, a good many months ago I published my developer tools list, which is still available in my blog entry “My Current Windows Developer Machine“. That entry however is very outdated. I’ve... Continue reading →

I’ve been digging through and playing with the Rails Framework now for about 4 months with intent (I guess I’ve read about it, learned about, but not played with it for well over 4 years). I’ve gained a pretty good familiarity with the parts of the framework. Below, I’ve laid out some of the key... Continue reading →