Life in the Armenian Diaspora: Armenians Take Vegas AGAIN!
When I heard that Tata would be holding a concert in Las Vegas I figured it was being put on by some ingenious rich Armenian who had rented out a venue and brought Tata over. ...
Archive for December, 2007
InlineBBQ Queue service
I was reading TopFunky’s great post on various queue’s that you can use with Ruby , and came across Rick Olson’s particularly amazing BBQ Queue service . Being immediately inspired, I wrote a complementary version, the InlineBBQ Queue service . Expect an MIT license on this sucker soon once it goes through at least ...
class DuckTyping < InterfacePolymorphism < UniformInterface
I really like the concept of the Uniform Interface. One of my favorite things to do is spend hours on my whiteboard (and sometimes days) fiddling with ideas that express what I consider to be elegance. This ranges from macroscopic elegance (ie: the architecture level) to microscopic elegance (ie: the function/method level). Somewhere in ...
Install / Upgrade Ruby and Rails on Unix-likes
Just had to install a complete ruby-on-rails-stack on a MacOsX box. This guide at Hivelogic comes in handy but I wanted an automated solution that can be easily adopted to new versions. So I was torn between a ruby script (in many cases an older ruby version is installed but you need something new) ...
Intro to Rails (using v. 2.0)
As some of you know, when I’m not working I’m taking classes in Information Systems at UCF. One of the classes I took this semester was Web Systems II, which is essentially a server-side course that focuses on ASP.NET development. One particular assignment was creating a “Category Code Manager”, which I had never heard ...