This is a stub, more to come!
Catlin Hampton blew my socks off first with his ego (which I assure you is as large as can be imagined) and then with his discussion of Migrations in Ruby. If you have ever had one of those moments where an idea hits you in the face and [...]
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I’ve been wondering why there were people from IBM hanging around MySQL con 2007. This morning I found out why as MySQL and IBM announced a joint technology and reseller agreement to bring support for the MySQL open source database to the IBM System i business computing platform.
The two companies will work together to offer [...]
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First and foremost I should state the Network Monitoring and Advisory Services is only available to those with MySQL Enterprise edition … this means no source code is available for download.
MySQL AB (the company which markets and commercially develops MySQL) calls its Enterprise product the most comprehensive offering of MySQL database software, services and support. [...]
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Routing in Rails
Routing in rails allows you to specify where your web-pages will reside. This way you can create more ‘user friendly’ url’s.
Note that: When changing routs ..you will have to ‘bounce’ your server as the server will cash all ‘routed’ values.
The config/routs.rb file is the primary (and generally only) interface for routing Rails. [...]
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Why Ruby ?
It comes from LISP and Simple Talk
Its bases on (DSL) Domain Specific Languages … lodes of power!
1. Object oriented
2. Flexible syntax (no crazy pern’s or semicolons!)
3. Open classes
4. code = data
code and data blocks can be passed around
Ruby on Rails has a tight MVC architecture (ala small talk)
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(I don’t want to [...]
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This …my first Tutorial is proving to be a little convoluted / our speaker is flying by the seat of his paints. It looks like he had nice slide filled presentation prepared ..but has for some reason decided to get off the beaten path. I think 90% of the room is either asleep, or [...]
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As i frantically attempt to install Rails, and Gem’s …
I reflect upon the good people at Google and Mapquest who are doubtlessly looking through there billion dollar satellites laughing at all the people they misdirect. This morning on my way to the conference I followed my printed directions to the ‘T’ …. only to end [...]
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Have you ever wondered what Lexington Kentucky looks like at 36,000 ft ?
Wonder no more….
This week I’m in Santa Clara, California attending the MySQL conference and Expo. Tutorials start bright and early tomorrow morning leaving me most of the day to play. My flight came in a few hours ago and after a [...]
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Or perhaps ‘with the ladies’…that is Liz Janes, Cat Power, and Regina Spektor. They each have an album that I have had in the rotation lately.
First is Liz Janes with her debut album from a few years ago, Done Gone Fire. She happens to be label-mates with Sufjan Stevens, who produced and arranged this album. [...]
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Most programmers will agree its generally good practice to at least have a development and production environment. Often developers will create a sort of ad-hock development environment on there local machines. In-terms of corporatecookies this presented a challenge.
Corporate cookies runs on a WordPress instance with a MySQL 4.something back-end. Installing and configuring WordPress on my [...]
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