If you noticed that Rogers 3G stopped working on your iPad/iPhone while using the developer beta for iOS 4.2 then read on how to fix it.
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How to get Rogers 3G working on Apple iOS 4.2 beta 1 for iPad or iPhone
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Posted in Development, Technology, Web Development
Posted in Development, Technology, Web Development
Rails: SQLite Replaces MySQL as Default Database
If you’ve waited until now before upgrading to Ruby on Rails 2.0 now you may be in for a little surprise. As of version 2.02 the default database in Rails is SQLite, arguably because there is no need to for…
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Montreal On Rails 2
So this Tuesday I had the honour of presenting at Montreal on Rails 2, where I demoed the Acts As Authenticated and Role Requirement plugins. I think Marc Andre Cournoyer’s review impressed me the most, mainly that “…[it] is an…
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Don’t refactor on a Friday afternoon!
If you work in a 9-5 environment, then the biggest mistake you can possibly make on a Friday afternoon is to start major changes in your code. Stop! Step away from the keyboard! This one goes right up there with…
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Come see me on Sept 4th
I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking about user authentication at the next Montreal on Rails meetup, scheduled for Tuesday the 4th of September at the McGill MAASS Chemistry building, room 328. The show starts at 18h45 and…
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BASH: How to strip the last character of a word.
The integrators at work had a problem recently with a shell script that generates SQL deployment and rollback scripts on the fly based on SQL patches submitted by developers. The problem was that sometimes the name of an object would…
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Tales from the Computer Club
Last night’s Montreal on Rails meetup (their first ever) was a large step up from the Commodore 64 disk swaps of my youth, but probably a lot more significant as far as self improvement goes. A good 30-35 people showed…
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Link grab bag for July 2007
Here are some of the links that I bookmarked for the month of July. I highly recommend the 101 meals at the bottom of this list. Development a free service oriented architecture diagram. Some simple SQL rules to live by…
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Exception Handling Best Practices in Java
I’m in the process of migrating some old Java 1.3 code to Java 6 and I really didn’t like the way exceptions were handled in the code. Before rewriting things I did some research as to what are considered the…
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