Unfortunately the Straw Dogs VPS account was deleted on Thursday by VPSFarm. Apparently this was due to the PayPal subscription being cancelled by me on September 2nd. As much as the PayPal site does state that the sub was cancelled by me – I disagree. I see no reason why I’d cancel the subscription to [...]
UPDATED: As of Jul 10th 2009 Open Source seems to be exploding all over the place at the moment and with online services increasingly jumping on the free offerings its been fantastic for developers wanting to host, manage, flaunt and communicate their projects online. Here’s a rundown of 6 free SVN hosting and project management [...]
The first shiny Ruby-supported beta of Netbeans 6.0 IDE by Sun has been released. With Ruby’s features maturing rapidly this looks to give Radrails a serious run for its money.I’ve always been a huge fan of Netbeans over Eclipse so I’m glad to see it jumping ahead like this and adding Ruby support was a [...]
Compared to other languages you may have used Ruby can seem a little odd. Flexible syntax, talking foxes and mad Japanese geniuses all make it look rather more like an arcane formula than a programming language. Though learning it really couldn’t be simpler because it flows like your mind. In fact the hardest part of [...]
While a mate was banging on about the new Half Life Team Fortress mod I was getting excited about IBM’s new Lotus Symphony office app. I know – I’m one step away from slippers.But when I was trying to download it this morning I couldn’t! Why? Because IBM seem to want to make it as [...]
I’m a recent convert to Googles Tech Talks and I’ve been totally taken in by it! Its a huge selection of posted videos searchable on Google Video of lectures, demonstrations and talks from a wide array of difefrent people. All rated and commented on by the community. What’s also great is its got RSS so [...]
I’ve always been a huge fan of the Pragmatic Programmers books since getting their renowned tome The Pragmatic Programmer. I have to admit it was a stunning book and so too was their “Agile Web Development with Rails”. I also jumped on the band wagon and bought myself the Programming Ruby (a.k.a. ‘Pickaxe’) book and [...]
I’ve been getting into investment a lot recently and so bought a book by James O’Shaughnessy titled “What Works on Wall Street”. Well after a couple of chapters I couldn’t hold off any longer from what I’d read at the end of chapter 1 Dogs of the Dow, You can visit the link for more [...]
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