These Are Not The Bugs You Are Looking For

Posted by edebill Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:18:00 GMT

If you're staring at some code and you just can't find the bug... chances are that it's not there.

Customers vs Individuals

Posted by edebill Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:08:00 GMT

Suddenly, I'm part of a family. For a lot of things, we're a single customer, but we're still a collection of individuals with our own tastes. Websites that want to customize user experience had better take note of this, or they're going to be really confused.

Low Battery Failure

Posted by edebill Sat, 29 May 2010 15:07:00 GMT

In which our intrepid blogger attempts to get his batteries to give 2 days notice before they quit.

ActiveDirectory Integration for Ruby apps

Posted by edebill Sat, 22 May 2010 14:26:00 GMT

So you're at work, building an awesome rails app for your coworkers to use. Then someone says "can you make it so people can log in with their Windows credentials?" That means ActiveDirectory integration.

Tailing log output over the web via RabbitMQ

Posted by edebill Sat, 15 May 2010 13:44:00 GMT

A very brief introduction to using RabbitMQ with Carrot to send data between processes asynchronously.