Using pik (for Windows)
Using bundler
Creating a simple webpage using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
Store your webpage files on GitHub
Understanding HTTP concepts
Using cURL
net/http library
Using open-uri
Learning Rack
Deploying Pure Rack Apps to Heroku
Deploying a static webpage to Heroku
What's JSON?
Using MongoDB with Ruby Mongo driver
MongoHQ the …
Using old Windows software on a new Windows 8 system is a hassle. Older versions of windows programs for instance use often a help in the Windows Help format. This format is no longer supported in Windows 8. Just try to enable the legacy windows help system winhlp32 on windows 8. It is annoying. If you start an old applications which uses Windows Help, then you might get the following message: "The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on …
…and fast, but incorporates new features both pulled back from iOS and to further push it ahead of Windows 8.
The ability to disable that god damned Mac App Store updates notification without having to actually update or open the Mac App Store.
Port UIKit back to OS X so that I can stop reading tweets from people bitching about how old and dated AppKit is.
Retina screens for every Mac.
A new Mac Pro. Finally.
Air Drop support across the Internet and not just your local …
…Pinching in the Cloud Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring On Windows Azure Web Sites
Make sure to ask us for a demo in the exhibition hall. We're looking forward to talking with you next week in Chicago!
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…today that Chef provides integration with the new, generally available, version of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. By combining Opscode Chef with Windows Azure, users can automate everything from server provisioning and configuration management to continuous delivery of infrastructure and applications.
Demonstrating the New Private Chef™
From the # ChefConf 2013 main stage, Opscode will demonstrate the latest version of Private Chef™, featuring a robust management …
Over the weekend we released Cucumber version 1.3.0. This was quickly replaced by 1.3.1 when we realised there was a bug 1.3.0 that only appeared on Windows.
Along with masses of bugfixes, this release contains the early stages of some serious internal refactoring work planned for release in version 2.0. Although our tests continue to pass, it may be that we've changed untested behaviour so that's why we've bumped the minor release number. We're already aware of one minor …
…ERP implementations to vendor-supplied embedded appliances across both Linux and Windows stacks. With Chef, the Thundering Herd is immune from...a Thundering Herd (ouch).
The University of Minnesota, who manage a sophisticated set of web-based research applications, mission-critical student tools, compute clusters, and more. These Golden Gophers have eschewed Golden Images in favor of platform-agnostic, scalable and repeatable Chef recipes.
The …
Over on my personal blog, The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century , I've posted a layperson-friendly article titled How to Mine Bitcoins for Fun and (Probably Very Little) Profit . It provides a description of what Bitcoins are and how they're mined that should be comprehensible by non-techies, some easy-peasy instructions for turning any old Windows machine into a Bitcoin mining rig, and a quick guide to figuring out how much (or how little) money you'll make on your mining venture.
…Second Level Address Translation . The current version of Windows' Hyper-V virtual machine, on which the Windows Phone 8 emulator runs, requires SLAT. i3, i5 and i7 processors have SLAT, but not the older Core 2s. My Windows machines may not be new, but they do a fine job running 64-bit Windows 8, the current edition of Microsoft Office, Adobe CS6 applications and more. Oddly enough, I can develop Windows 8 desktop and tablet apps with them; I can even develop …
Q: Can you run pt-query-digest on an output of the slow log on a Windows machine?
A: Yes, pt-query-digest should work on Windows even if it's not one of the supported platforms . You'll have to install ActivePerl first.
Q: Are these MySQL tools able to be run against Amazon RDS instances?
A: It depends. Most MySQL tools can connect to remote hosts and will work with Amazon RDS but others (like pt-stalk) are only useful when run locally with the root user. …