It seems that a lot of people develop Ruby On Rails using Windows. I suppose that makes sense (to a point), so it was only inevitable that O'Reilly (or someone else) would get round to publishing a book / pamphlet on setting up a development environment. In this case it was O'Reilly with "Rails on Windows" - it's a PDF download, so you get to download and make the trees suffer … [Read more...] about Ruby on Rails on Windows
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Joost – Free Legal TV
The other day I went to a meeting of INEX - the Irish Internet Neutral Exchange - of which we are members. Apart from the standard updates etc., there were also a number of talks including one by Colm who now works for Joost. His talk was fascinating, as he explained not only what Joost is, but also how it actually works and what kind of network infrastructure they need to run … [Read more...] about Joost – Free Legal TV
Dell To Offer Ubuntu
According to an article on eWeek, Dell are planning to offer Ubuntu preinstalled on some models from later this month (it doesn't say if it's a global decision or US market only). It seems that Mr Dell runs Ubuntu on his own PC! … [Read more...] about Dell To Offer Ubuntu
If it’s not spam why are you telling me?
You've got to love reciprocal link spammers! Their emails are great! I got this one earlier today: Dear owner of http://www.xxxxx.xxxx, I'm the webmaster of http://www.xxxx.xxxx. We came across your site on the Internet and feel that it would fit perfectly into our collection of quality software-related links at http://www.xxxx.xxxx. The Google PR of this site is currently … [Read more...] about If it’s not spam why are you telling me?
The Politics of Hosting – Irish Politicians and Hosting
There will be a general election in Ireland in the next few weeks and we'll all have to listen to the various politicians going on about how much they'll do for the Irish economy. But do the politicians actually use Irish companies to provide them with services such as hosting and domain registration? There's a thread over on boards.ie which is quite revealing. It seems that … [Read more...] about The Politics of Hosting – Irish Politicians and Hosting