
CodeSherpas Inc. Looking forward to hearing David Medinets and Jeff Casimir at tonight's Nova RUG meeting!
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Two Topics: ActiveScaffold by David Medinets and Stop Talking, Start Teaching: 5 Rules for Successful Communication by Jeff Casimir

CodeSherpas Inc. Completed a cool Ruby app in the past year? Enter it in the Fukuoka Ruby Contest: http://www.f-rubyaward.com/index_en.html
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The rapid development and diffusion of information technology in recent years has foreshortened the cycle of product and service production, thereby increasing the needs for planning and production ability of software companies. ...

CodeSherpas Inc. "State Secrets", David's article on modeling state-based workflows is in the October edition of PragPub. http://www.pragprog.com/magazines
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CodeSherpas Inc. Updates to installing ImageMagick and RMagick on CentOS5
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For some reason, this process seems to get more convoluted with time, not less. Before you go through this pain, let me ask you, "are you sure you need to use ImageMagick and RMagick?" There are other options in today's...

CodeSherpas Inc. Memory usage improvements in changing from mongrel to passenger
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We manage a rails site for a client that will go unnamed for now, and for the past year they have experienced about a 23% increase in traffic per month. The front end is run on a single box; a...

CodeSherpas Inc. Are you still supporting IE6? If so, you might be wasting your development dollars
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There's a debate raging on the Internet over the fate of Microsoft's eight-year-old browser, Internet Explorer 6. The essence of that fight is this: IE6 is a terrible, outdated browser; but many corporate and government IT departments still refuse to...

CodeSherpas Inc. Sleep better at night knowing your sensitive data is protected from prying eyes
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Since my last post was about Apple's Disk Utility, I thought I'd share another one. How to secure your client's data on your laptop. I'm currently working with a client where I have access to some sensitive school records. Recently,...

CodeSherpas Inc. Need more disk space for your Mac? Check out this OS X Hard Drive Tip
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I deal with a lot of big files, so I deal with a lot of external storage. My favorite portable, big hard drive line is the FreeAgent Go from Seagate. 500 gigs, no external power = awesome. They are becoming...

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CodeSherpas Inc. has released Crondonkulous, a new gem for automating rake tasks
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Do you write rails apps? Have you ever wanted to automate rake tasks with cron? Easy peasy, right? Well, its not that hard for the most part, but there are some issues to think about: What happens if you try...

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CodeSherpas Inc. Does YOUR Company Need a Blog?
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A Contractual Test Based on the Liskov Substitution Principle
Interface Tests in Ruby
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