Around the same time as I accepted my new job, I found out about BarCampRDU. I went ahead and signed up for it. I figured, “Hey, free conference.” It was this past Saturday and I had a really good time. I met a few other IBMers and also heard some interesting […]

I have accepted a new job within IBM (actually I did a few weeks ago and I’m just now finally posting about it). I start on Aug. 1st. The job is in the Emerging Standards group, which I sort of describe to others as an emerging technology group but with a standards slant […]

Well, I finally did it. Starting on Friday afternoon I endeavored to take Ruby and Rails on a test drive to see if I could use it to make a little web app for my own personal use. I should note that I had no prior Ruby or Rails experience nor experience […]

About a year and a half ago I found out about Maven about the same time that I was becoming team lead for a new project and so I decided to do the investigation and set up our small project to use Maven in our build system. It really made it easier to integrate […]

I’ve somewhat recently been reading about the REST vs. SOAP argument for web services.  I have written a few web services and own their maintenance and can definitely attest that SOAP can be a difficult way to go as the supporting libraries keep changing and the tools do a lot “for” you and when something […]

Very nicely put together resource roundup of all sorts of Ruby on Rails information. From beginners installation tutorials, to more advanced coding articles & tutorials, as well as good like of Ruby on Rails books and hosting options.
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I have been noticing that Firefox has been being a bit of a memory hog on some of my machines. I came across this page that talks about a quick and simple config change that should help.
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Amen, Brother!
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For the past few weeks I have hooked myself up to an information fire hose. My desire to learn and to sharpen my knowledge edge has definitely been renewed. I’m not exactly sure what did it, I think I’ve just felt like I’ve been in a bit of a rut.
I have been downloading […]

I hope it is not a midlife crisis, because I hope to live longer than 56 years, but lately I’ve been feeling a lot like I need to figure out what I want to be when I grow up, and I’ve been a bit all over the place about it.
Sometimes I feel like I want […]