Using Git on your Android.
Yes. Because we are nerds. How? There’s no quick easy way yet. People have been discussing their own ways on how to go around this. You may wanna eavesdrop here. As much as I did look at their suggestions and I kinda laughed at myself because I’ve tried most of those and it didn’t satisfy
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Solving Postgres problems in Mountain Lion
Problem #1: psql (9.1.5, server 9.2.2) WARNING: psql version 9.2, server version 9.2. Some psql features might not work. Type “help” for help. Solution:
Installing Rmagick on Mountain Lion
I had a very very tough time trying to find the solution to this. So, I am compelled to post what solved my problem. First off, when you go looking for solutions in Stackoverflow, etc., do look at the dates when the problem and the solution was posted. Usually, the closest dated solution will be
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Tip: Escaping single quotes on SQL insert (ruby)
For quite sometime, I haven’t tried executing SQLs manually in Rails. But, try as I may not to create a specific model for this scenario, I just couldn’t. So, in the meantime that I had to do the manual insert, I encountered a problem with strings with single quotes. Particularly those names that have O’,
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No, your window cleaner cannot fix your roof
I’ve been managing people for quite sometime now. Its somehow unfortunate that I may not be a software engineer for an extensibly longer time than I wanted to because at some point, managing people better would mean putting more good people in a working team. Over time, I have been able to solve problems of
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Web services and some tips to share
API stands for Application Programming Interface. I’m sure you wouldn’t be reading my post if you aren’t aware what it is. From Wikipedia: An application programming interface (API) is a source code-based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other. An API may include specifications for routines, data structures, object classes, and variables.
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Capistrano Deploy sequence
Capistrano is really helpful in deploying applications. Its just basically one command line to execute. Writing the recipes themselves are also easy, but what’s not explicitly written is the sequence of which the deploy process goes through. I’ve been fixing my cap scripts and having a hard time with rails 3 and thin. Hence, I
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Picking up the breadcrumbs
Its always easy to skip going through the details of what your stacked up knowledge and just go for trying out new stuff. This time, I take it one step back and skim through pages of books I have always ignored and pick some sections that are worth looking into and post them here. I’ve
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The power of toggle
I don’t know if we’ve been missing out on deliberate API lovin’ or that we’re becoming dumber every minute because of too much work, or its just the love month? …but we’ve been missing the power of “toggle“. Toggle is defined as: any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns
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