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I was excited to find a Ruby plugin for Eclipse. I haven’t used it that much yet, but it seems more than sufficient for now.
Even better than this, I came across RadRails, which is also a Ruby editor, but has a number of Rails specific features, including RHTML sytax highlighting and Rails code-assist.
Plus, it’s [...]

I’ve heard so much about RoR lately, I had to try it out to see what all the hype is about. I have to say the jury may be still out in some regards, but in others it’s in and it’s very impressive.
The Ruby install is a breeze. There’s a ‘one-click’ install for [...]

SQL Server doesn’t have something like MySQL’s dump client built-in, which is really useful for backing up/recreating tables or the entire database. I know there are some good commercial tools to facilitate data export, such red-gate’s suite, but this is a very nice stored procedure that will generate insert statements you can use to [...]

I’ve spent some time lately building a small AJAX app for a client. It was totally refreshing to work with something ‘new.’ I was also psyched with the results. No page refreshing really does make a difference. It might seem subtle at first, or maybe even unnoticeable for some, but once you get [...]

I’ve spent time some getting familiar with Springframework for .NET which, among other features, supports inversion of control containers and the dependency injection pattern. While that may sound complicated, once you read about it, you’ll find that it’s really not all that complex. Basically, it’s a great way to make the configuration and [...]