Category: Linux, Mac, Ruby, Tinkering, Web Apps | 6 Comments
I’ve been interested in using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for server backups, but I couldn’t find a simple, straight forward howto. This is a walk though on one way to setup a Unix server to automatically backup data to Amazon S3.
I guess I should start out with what Amazon S3 is I suppose… It’s [...]
Category: Linux, Ruby | 10 Comments
I went a little crazy this week-end, and decided to look for a way to write GUI programs on Linux in ruby. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is.
Linux GUI Programming with Ruby
Category: General, Linux, Ruby, Web Apps, Windows | Leave a Comment
The French Gendarmes (The police? - jezz the French have a different word for everything) are dropping Internet Explorer, and going with Firefox as their default browser. It’s reported that that is about 70,000 desktops and the conversion should be done by end of 2006.
Interestingly, one of the main reason for Firefox over IE was [...]
About a year or so ago, a friend of mine told me I should check out this new scripting language called Ruby (Hi Raul). He was digging on it. This was before Ruby was cool in the US.
At the time I was in the midst of learning Objective-C, but I told him I’d check it [...]