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Learning Ruby on Rails

As you might have guessed from my last post, I’ve finally gotten my ass in gear and am trying to learn Ruby on Rails. It’s a little rough trying to do this on Windows; it really seems like most of the serious Ruby developers are on Mac OS X. I’d prefer to be on Mac [...]

Posted 12 April 2009 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

MySQL 5.1 with Rails 2.3/Ruby 1.8.6 on Windows doesn’t work

The title says it all. I wish Ruby on Rails wasn’t so difficult to get set up on Windows. It sounds like most Ruby on Rails developers are Mac OS X or Linux users.
I was just trying to get a basic app set up with MySQL 5.1, Rails 2.3 and Ruby 1.8.6 and got this [...]

Posted 12 April 2009 † Peter § ‡ Comments (1) °

Found a bug in TaxCut

I actually finished my taxes a couple of weeks ago but I received a package from the New York state tax folks a few days ago saying there was a problem with my tax return. The total local tax withholding amount reported on my main tax form did not equal the sum of the local [...]

Posted 11 March 2008 † Peter § ‡ Comments (2) °

More fun with Microsoft SharePoint

In most programming languages/APIs, you should be able to construct a boolean statement with an unlimited number of ANDs or ORs that can be aggregated together easily. e.g. if (a.isRed() OR b.isBlue() OR c.isGreen() OR d.isBlack() etc…)
But everything has to be difficult with Microsoft, doesn’t it?
This blog post describes an issue with constructing a query [...]

Posted 05 July 2007 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

if (!englishDocs.isAvailable()) showJapanese();

I’m working with Microsoft SharePoint on my current project. I came across this great error message when viewing the SharePoint documentation on MSDN:

Posted 28 June 2007 † Peter § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °