No legs?

Jan 22nd

Posted by in Cartoons

This made me chuckle (click on the image to enlarge).

why, _why

‘Tis the holiday season

Dec 1st

Posted by in Life

Many of us fail to realize how fortunate we are until we’re placed in a pretty bad situation, which is all natural since we’re just “being” human. So I guess it’s a natural tendency to bitch and moan over the smallest inconvenience in our petty lives until the hammer of judgement falls in-between our legs and take away whatever we so dearly cherish. I’ve link an article I believe is one of the nicest things any person can do for another person. It all boils down to looking out for one another and events like the one described in the article shouldn’t just happen during a holiday, but every single day! A world will be a much better place if that simple mentality is firmly placed in our character.

http://www.tonic.com/article/wrong-number-brings-thanksgiving-miracle/

Take care! :)

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How to install Ruby 1.9.1, RubyGems 1.3.5, Rails 2.3.4 and SQLite3 on Windows 7 x64

Nov 20th

Posted by in Ruby on Rails

After reading for days on the pros/cons on the vast amount of web frameworks that are freely given to us by the generous open source community (kudos) has lead me to choose Ruby on Rails to convert my next idea into a reality.

This guide is an extension to what the wonderful folks at OCSBlog.com have already shared with the world in installing Ruby 1.9.1, so I’m not going to reinvent the wheel by repeating what they’ve already explained.

  1. Follow OCSBlog.com word for word concerning the installation of Ruby 1.9.1 (http://www.ocsblog.com/2009/09/installing-ruby-1-9-1-for-windows/)
  2. Download ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/libiconv-1.9.1.dll.zip and extract the content of that file into a temporary folder.
  3. Open that temporary folder and copy/paste iconv.dll into C:\Ruby\bin
  4. Download RubyGems 1.3.5 from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126 and extract the content of that file into a temporary folder.
  5. Open a command prompt with “Run as Administrator” and go into that temporary folder where you had extracted RubyGems 1.3.5 into.
  6. Type the following command ruby setup.rb
  7. Go do a couple of jumping jacks.
  8. Type the command gem install rails to install Rails 2.3.4
  9. Some more jumping jacks…
  10. Type the command gem install sqlite3-ruby to install SQLite3

Time to test out your hard work!

  1. Create an empty folder where you would like your project to reside
  2. Open a command prompt and type rails path/to/your/new/application/folder
  3. Type cd path/to/your/new/application/folder
  4. Type ruby script/server
  5. Open your web browser and type in http://localhost:3000
  6. Now let your imagination run loose!

Thanks and I hope you find this guide useful. :)