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Webcast: Ruby on Windows with Heroku

Gilbert Hamilton — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:08:15 +0000

A wonderful webcast about setting up Ruby on Windows with Heroku is here: http://docs.heroku.com/windows. I have to say, I have not watched it yet; no youtube and video sites from work. However, anything from Heroku is awesome, you can be sure of that.

I wonder if they go over access through proxy, too.

Filed under: 1 Tagged: heroku, ruby, webcasts, windows

Yay Informatica

Gilbert Hamilton — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:05:52 +0000

So, I’m enjoying the day – working on some aggregation and split – mess – union within Informatica 8. Good times. Makes me happy to be programming, really. I’ve coded for so long, it’s nice to be “lazy” with a gui sometimes.

Posted in 1 Tagged: coding, informatica

Test procedures

Gilbert Hamilton — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:12:03 +0000

How does an organization with little to no test procedures (for the introduction of code into production) get started with better testing of code? I’m trying all of the “grass roots” things I can, short of just giving up and saying “I won’t put this into production unless…” and then I know, if I do that, I’ll get looked at as “not a team player”, etc.

Posted in 1 Tagged: code, testing

Ahh rails, I remember you

Gilbert Hamilton — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:12:34 +0000

Spent a little time today writing migration free code against an existing sybase table. We need a solid way of letting users modify just this one table.
With some sass and haml it may work.

Posted in 1 Tagged: rails, thought

Java class version

Gilbert Hamilton — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:48:37 +0000

Last night the charging app code I put into production would have run if I compiled on the same antiquated version as the production server. When it ran, it bombed. The person who repaired (restored old jar) and reran didn’t check to see if it would append input files.

It did.

Charges for the hospital were doubled last night. So yeah now we have to back them out rerun and then put in the right ones.

Lesson learned:
1: test server needs to be a true mirror of production.
2: try before you pry :or: measure twice cut once.

Posted in 1 Tagged: java, testing

Ahh yes, IE6

Gilbert Hamilton — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:22:34 +0000

I’m doing a small side job website for a local catering company. Nothing much, just a few hours. I got a nice layout setup, and even drop-down menus. Comcastic. I arrive at work, to test the page in IE6, and yeah I forgot about that pesky “no PNG transparency in <= IE6" thing. Good times.

Posted in 1 Tagged: code, css, ie, web

Thin on Windows XP

Gilbert Hamilton — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:03:25 +0000

I want to tinker with Ajax and push/comet methods. Thinking I may want write a web based telnet client driven by Ajax, CSS, and other sassy ideas. Just trying a few ideas. But, I came across a stumbling block with my (personal) requirement: it needs to run on Heroku. Which means I don’t get to install something like Resin, etc. I’d really like to use this: pusher and async with Thin (because it will work well with Sinatra…)

A few Google Minutes and I came up with:

http://www.winstonyw.com/2008/03/23/ruby-thin-server-on-windows/
https://thin.lighthouseapp.com/projects/7212/tickets/45-thin-on-windows-errors-on-missing-gem

Seems others are having an issue, too. I don’t have the .NET tools, am behind a firewall, and really am just curious if there is a precompiled binary method, out of pure lazyness.

Posted in 1 Tagged: ajax, heroku, sinatra

Stress

Gilbert Hamilton — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:02:11 +0000

I suppose one of the pitfalls of being, well, alive in this world is the ability to disconnect and de-stress – and how it is fading as fast as the ability to write cursive. (An ability which I am terrible at as well, though I am trying to learn Gregg shorthand.)

I’ve had jaw pain for the last month or so; visited the doctor last week and he said it was “TMJ”. So starts that journey.

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Ahh, VIM

Gilbert Hamilton — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:37:42 +0000

Lately I’ve been tinkering around with task management using plain old text files.

VIM is my editor of choice for fast movement by keyboard only; as compared to Notepad++ for just about everything else.

I’ve been using maps and have created a few nice ones, and will post them later, if I find time.