My eRubycon 2007 slides are on Slideshare. Service-Oriented Architecture with Ruby. Covers open-source libraries that make web services possible on Ruby.

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Jun

8 things Mac OS could do better

Posted by Zak Mandhro Published in apple, linux

After 4 years of Ubuntu Linux, I am finally getting comfortable with Mac OS. Here’s my list of things that I think will make Mac OS a better OS for me, a long-time Linux user.
Disclaimer: I not a Mac expert by any means. Please feel free to enlighten me.

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1. Better X11 and GNOME [...]

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Apr

Leopard delayed. Time to get a Mac.

Posted by Zak Mandhro Published in apple

I was so excited to get a new MacBook Pro with Mac OS X Leopard for my birthday (April). Days went by, no news on the new operating system. Until now. Apple just announced that Leopard is not to be released until October.
This is hard for me because I’ll *have* to upgrade. I can’t tolerate [...]

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Mar

Family2.0 Famiva is live, FINALLY!

Posted by Zak Mandhro Published in java, rails, ruby, social networks

After many months of working nights and weekends, Famiva is finally ready for public beta! So, what is Famiva anyway? It’s a free social network and collaboration service for families. Basically, it’s a web site that allows you build your family tree. Every relative you add will get the ability to complete their family tree [...]

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Jan

Edgy on Rails? Get compiling!

Posted by Zak Mandhro Published in linux, rails, ruby

Love Ubuntu and want to run a Rails server on Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10)? Roll-up your sleeves for some "compiling from source" fun.
Please note that Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn has been released. It comes with Apache 2.2. If you can, avoid all this compiling and just sudo apt-get dist-upgrade!
Rails development on Ubuntu is a breeze, you [...]

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Jan

SD Times – Rails for Tactical Business Applications

Posted by Zak Mandhro Published in enterprise, rails, ruby

SD Times recently published my article on Tactical Business Applications with Ruby on Rails. It discusses the advantages of using Rails to fulfill enterprise business needs.
Get the full article here: SD Times - Rails for Tactical Business Applications

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Nov

Using MySQL Full Text Search with Rails

Posted by Zak Mandhro Published in rails, ruby

MySQL offers powerful out-of-the-box full text search capability. It allows you to do advanced search on text columns such as:
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As of Rails 1.1.6, working with MySQL Full Text search is not that straight forward. The first problem is that Migrations doesn't support the SQL syntax for full text indexes. Your create table class [...]

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Oct

Making Firefox work with Dual Screen on Linux

Posted by Zak Mandhro Published in linux

While attemping to use Firefox in dual screen mode on my Ubuntu Linux, I encountered this annoying problem: If you launch Firefox on one screen, you can't launch it on the second screen (unless you are using Clone to Big mode). When you launch Firefox on the second screen, it complains about the profile being [...]

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