Some people might turn up their nose at mass-produced IKEA products, but it's hard to deny the impact that having access to a large pool of objects that can be easily configured and combined together...
Are you already feeling some ill will toward Facebook for splitting up your Facebook home page with a split "News Feed" and "Live Feed"? Web PR consultant Steve Rubel posts a sorta-kinda fix: Click...
So you found the perfect design to adorn your soon to be jack-o-lantern, but as soon as you take the first plunge with your knife, your pumpkin starts to lose precious moisture. Keep it from rotting...
The art of sitting or standing up straight might seem like something out of a 1950's etiquette class, but it actually plays an important role in staying energized and efficient throughout your day at...
Windows 7 adds loads of great shortcuts for switching between apps, moving windows around your screen, moving them to another monitor altogether, and much more. Here's a quick-reference master list...
Netflix keeps finding its way onto devices you've already got in your living room. It's already nicely integrated with your Xbox 360 and Windows Media Center, but starting next month it'll also be...
All hell broke loose after Zed Shaw (the guy behind Mongrel) wrote a post claiming Rails is Ghetto. In the post he points out the ugly part of “Rails Community”.
“This is that rant. It is part of my grand exit strategy from the Ruby and Rails community. I don’t want to be a ‘Ruby guy’ [...
For certain programming solutions, you might need a temporary file. Different operating systems store temporary files in different locations. Also you don’t want to explicitly name the file since that is irrelevant in the program. How do you ensure that there are no filename conflicts? The solution for all these is to use library for [...
Many programmers who are new to Ruby get confused when they see Ruby symbols. A lot us came to know about Ruby language through Ruby on Rails projects. In Ruby on Rails, symbols are everywhere! So it is essential to understand the concept of symbols in Ruby.
A symbol in Ruby is an instance of the [...
This article introduces the reader to Powershell. The application that it demonstrates is one that monitors SQL Server Agent to make sure it is running.
