Friday, October 5, 2012

"Unicode data in a Unicode-only collation..." Error and Writing a Migration to Fix It

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The problem I've been maintaining a Rails project at work during my down-time, and recently ran into the following error after launchi...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Capital Punishment - Countries and Capitals

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Capital Punishment - Countries and Capitals Using the knowledge I'd gained in the tutorials I mentioned last post, I created the above...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

Great Tutorial On Ruby Web Applications

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The tutorial linked below is quite nice. It shows the basics of using Nokogiri for data scraping, Sinatra to help create the web applicati...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

Lessons Learned Presentation

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So I'll be giving a short presentation on 9/6 with some of my fellow company representatives in front of some college students. Our top...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Lessons I Wished I'd Learned Earlier As An Undergrad

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Having worked at a real company now for several months, I've been given the opportunity to go back to my Alma mater and participate in a...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Shakespeare Programming

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The following lines of code group a list of customers by city and orders the groups with more than two values by key. var custQuery = ...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Desktop Deleted in Ubuntu 12.04

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While trying to save files to ~/Desktop yesterday, I had the misfortune of saving a file as ~/Desktop. I wasn't actually aware at the ti...