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New Facebook App: Jobs

Check out this new Facebook app I wrote, Jobs.
http://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=2ef3f8cc5320897be6432956cc6213dc
You can search jobs, search your friends companies for jobs, and much more!
It was a trip working with the Facebook API. Very powerful. Kudos to Facebook for opening up their platform!!
Shout out to Space Chimp.

LifeHacker – solving my web pet peeves one peeve at a time. Paste multiple lines into input boxes

This is awesome. I am always having to play mouse hockey to get multiple lines pasted into a browser text box.This solves the problem.Thank you LifeHacker.

Tribeca Film Festival & American Express: Pathetic

I was all set this morning to order my tickets to Tribeca Film Festival, since I am a “CARDMEMBER” and that supposedly would give me some special preference.
Well, it looks Tribeca’s old PHP/LAMP servers were not up to the task. I couldn’t order and just got errors. Tried calling in, all circuits busy. [...]

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Educarchile turns on Google Apps for Education for Chile

Ltech was mentioned in the Google Enterprise Blog for our work on a major Apps integration we just completed.
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Educarchile turns on Google Apps for Education for Chile
I believe that integrations like this prove that Google Apps is a serious competitor to other enterprise collaboration platforms like Exchange and Notes. Educarchile [...]

RubyQuest 2007: howto build a wiki in 20 minutes – it really worked

This tutorial was great. I learned pretty much all the basics. I would have been nice to learn more about why things are structured in certain ways in Ruby, but I solved the major test case for myself – build a postgresql ruby on rails app.Thanks to whomever wrote it.Technorati Tags: ruby

RubyQuest 2007: Driving myself crazy so you don’t have to. Tutorial #1 Running Ruby and postgreSQL on Windows

Ok folks, this drove me absolutely insane for a few days until I figured it out.I want to learn Ruby. You can read my previous posts to see why. I want to use postgreSQL, not mySql. I want to do it on Windows and then eventually deploy on Linux.So – I made it pretty far [...]

Ok, I setup Ubuntu Server, now what? Install Ruby and PostgresSQL

At this point I think it will serve me best to describe what I actually hope to accomplish with this Linux test I am running. I could happily stay in the la-la land of Windows and .NET development. So what do I hope to achieve?Technically:

Get a Linux server running with Ruby on Rails and [...]

Installing Ubuntu on VMware Player

I had to dig the depths of the internet to find this great tutorial: http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/ekeller00/ubuntu/2a_UbuntuInWindows_VMware_e.htmlThanks, Eric Keller.Now I will blog about my Ubuntu experience once I can get it installed on VMware. I was able to install it straight-up on my old Thinkpad A20p, but I realized that I didn’t want to carry around a [...]

Scaling high-performance websites. How do YOU do it?

Great article on how MySpace managed their growth and scaling issues: http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=198614,00.aspI am trying to manage a similar scale-up, not quite at the scale as MySpace, but with its own unique challenges. So far I’ve found the resources on the web for serious web high-performance architecture are lacking, but I often find gems like the [...]

Running PostgreSQL Queries from SQL Server 2005

We are looking into alternative database platforms (for us, alternative to SQL Server 2005), and we came across PostgreSQL. Back in the day when I used to do much more development using open-source platforms, I used MySql, and was frankly never impressed. However, PostgreSQL really shines, especially for someone used to working with Microsoft tools.The [...]

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