Author: Dr. Ernie

Immigrant, Physicist, Storyteller, and Transformational Christian

Mac Home Theater, Followup

I had some wonderful responses to my Simple Mac Home Theater article. One pointed me to this incredibly helpful Mac mini Media Center article, which was recently updated for the latest Intel minis. I was also encouraged to hang out on the HTPC Mac Chat Forum, which has lots of juicy data. The most useful,... Continue Reading →

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Great JavaScript-in-Ruby (RJS) Tutorial: What I Learned

My colleague Luke Burton has posted a wonderful RJS Tutorial. [Read more] for a short list of the new things it taught me. ? You can insert RJS calls in RHTML documents, not just RJS documents ? The relevant documentation is ActionView::Helpers::PrototypeHelper and ActionView::Helpers::PrototypeHelper::JavaScriptGenerator::GeneratorMethods ? RJS handles (most) error catching for me ? You can... Continue Reading →

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Really Simple Mac Home Theater?

So, we're finally moving back to San Jose (actually, Santa Clara) after three years in Sacramento. One fun aspect of buying a new house is the chance to create a home theater solution from scratch. Of course, the goal is to build it around a Mac! While there's lots of resources, most of them seem... Continue Reading →

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Understanding Ruby on Rails

This presentation (pdf) explains the underlying philosophy and technologies that make Ruby on Rails so compelling (at least IMHO). It includes a tutorial for Rails 1.1.2 that covers: ? creating SQLite databases using migrations ? generating models and scaffolds ? writing controllers by hand (w/o generators) ? rjs and rhtml templates for dynamic HTML (aka... Continue Reading →

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Camping on the Rails

For those who find Rails' plethora of files overkill for simple applications, there's always Camping. While still built on Ruby and ActiveRecord, Camping is optimized for the "small-app-in-a-single-file" approach.[Read more] for some links, from a friend who will remain anonymous... It's called "Camping":http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/wiki/http://camping.rubyforge.org/files/README.htmlHere's a wiki implemented in Camping:http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/browser/trunk/examples/tepee/tepee.rbHere's the latest post about Camping developments:http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/mosquitoAndDecamp.htmlThe original... Continue Reading →

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“X” Things, to Understand about Ruby on Rails

Understanding Ruby on Rails:"X" Things You Need To KnowRuby on Rails is perhaps the most innovative web application framework since WebObjects , with developers claiming 10x boosts in productivity over J2EE. But, what is it "really"? And why should I care? These notes and sample code complement the enormous number of Ruby and Rails tutorials... Continue Reading →

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DNSSEC: DNS Secutity Extensions

Somewhat off-topic, but I've recently been doing some research on DNSSEC (aka Secure DNS). I was quite surprised to discover that the current RFCs about this were only published last March, so it is a relatively recent development (not counting the earlier, un-implementable versions :-).[Read more] for a list of interesting resources I've discovered about... Continue Reading →

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OSI Membership Policy: Request for Proposals

Ken Coar just posted an official "Call for Proposals" regarding OSI membership. [Read more] for the full text, though the key sentence for me is:The objective of moving to a membership model is tobroaden the "ownership" of the OSI to include the globalcommunity of people who are investing their lives in opensource. Those members then... Continue Reading →

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