Tools & Tips —
I’m working on a project these days that has quite a bit of Quickbooks integration. For those who have already traveled this path you know it’s no party. SOAP, Windows only..and that’s just the start. I can’t relieve your headache, but I do have some decent resources and tips to mention.
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As parents of a 7, 5 and 2 year old, watching the content your kids access becomes an issue pretty fast. When you see odd domain names in the URL history you know you need to put something in place. I tried glubble, but it was unnecessarily complex and bloated. I was happy to [...]
So I was kindly issued a shiny new MacBook Pro which is truly awesome; an elegant gui built on top of Unix. I think this page pretty much covers it. I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for the past 6 months or so, and I can ‘t say I’m sad to close that chapter. [...]
If you’re using RadRails, the Eclipse plug-in for Rails development, and want to get that super cool look textmate offers, you have to check out this post. The color scheme combined with the new fonts that ship with Vista make this a nice switch from the boring Courier New-on-a-white-background set up you’re probably used [...]
I came across a cool plugin for Rails that allows you to analyze your queries in MySQL. It takes advantage of the EXPLAIN statement, which you can read about here if you aren’t already familiar with it. And if you aren’t familiar with it, you should get familiar with it :) It’s a really easy [...]