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  • November 4, 2017 Start and Stop SQL Server Using a Script
  • October 4, 2017 Installing RabbitMQ on Windows...
  • August 24, 2017 Could Not Load File or Assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.BatchParser Version=12.0.0.0 Culture=neutral
  • April 25, 2015 Create A Geocoding Service On The Cheap
  • January 24, 2015 Heroku Style Deployments With git-deploy
  • December 31, 2014 2014 - My Year In Review
  • December 31, 2014 Dude! What happened to you?
  • September 23, 2014 Ruby - What are Symbols? When and How Do I Use Them
  • September 22, 2014 Ruby - Generate an Excel Spreadsheet
  • September 21, 2014 Ruby - Converting Image Formats
  • September 18, 2014 Simple Profiling of a Ruby Application
  • September 17, 2014 Ruby - Aliasing Methods, Just Because You Can
  • September 16, 2014 Ruby - Ping A Machine
  • September 15, 2014 Ruby - How To Mask a Command-line Password
  • September 14, 2014 Simple Benchmarking in Ruby
  • September 12, 2014 Haiku Friday - The Tech Museum of Innovation
  • September 11, 2014 Transformation Thursday - How do I Check Whether it is DST in Ruby and CSharp?
  • September 10, 2014 How To Read a File In Ruby
  • September 9, 2014 Interacting with the File System
  • September 8, 2014 Simple Retry Logic When Hitting Exceptions in Ruby
  • September 7, 2014 Handling Exceptions in Ruby
  • September 6, 2014 JSON Serializer not Required
  • September 5, 2014 Haiku Friday - Save the Drama For Yo Mama Round 2
  • September 4, 2014 And Now Some Sparklines
  • September 3, 2014 Creating Graphs in Ruby
  • September 2, 2014 How do I go from String to Symbol and Symbol to String?
  • September 1, 2014 Reversing Strings in Ruby
  • August 31, 2014 Using REXML to Parse XML Documents
  • August 30, 2014 Using Nokogiri to Parse XML Documents
  • August 29, 2014 Haiku Friday - Surviving APIs With Rails
  • August 28, 2014 Transformation Thursday - C# to Ruby, Reading XML in C# vs Ruby
  • August 27, 2014 What the Proc is a Proc?
  • August 26, 2014 Ruby Does My Regex not Match
  • August 25, 2014 Some handy HTTP Status codes to remember
  • August 24, 2014 Database Migrations Converting DbScriptomate to Ruby - Fixing Something I Don't Like
  • August 23, 2014 Database Migrations Converting DbScriptomate to Ruby Running our SQL Scripts
  • August 22, 2014 Haiku Friday - Zombies Now Teach Rails?
  • August 21, 2014 Transformation Thursday - C# to Ruby, How to create a MD5 Hash
  • August 20, 2014 First Open Bermuda Meet-up
  • August 19, 2014 Update - My Progress on the Path to Learning Ruby
  • August 18, 2014 Damn Good Documents Make the Difference
  • August 17, 2014 Open Bermuda - Open Source Software and the Community
  • August 16, 2014 Code School - They Finally have my Money
  • August 15, 2014 Haiku Friday - 55 Days of Writing
  • August 14, 2014 Transformation Thursday - More on Modules from a Pro
  • August 13, 2014 Database Migrations Converting DbScriptomate to Ruby Run SQL Scripts Take 1
  • August 12, 2014 Word Scoring - Solution and Thoughts About Optimization
  • August 11, 2014 Database Migrations Converting DbScriptomate to Ruby - Command Line Arguments
  • August 10, 2014 Database Migrations Converting DbScriptomate to Ruby
  • August 9, 2014 Railscasts - Another awesome resource for Rails and Ruby
  • August 8, 2014 Haiku Friday - Need to send emails in Ruby?
  • August 7, 2014 Transformation Thursday - C# to Ruby, Referencing and using other libraries
  • August 6, 2014 An introduction to Rails - Ruby on Rails Tutorial
  • August 5, 2014 A journey on sending emails - the end
  • August 4, 2014 A journey on sending emails - the Pony gem
  • August 3, 2014 A journey on sending emails - the Mail gem
  • August 2, 2014 A journey on sending emails - ActionMailer
  • August 1, 2014 Haiku Friday - Save the drama for yo mama
  • July 31, 2014 Transformation Thursday - C# to Ruby, How do properties work in Ruby
  • July 30, 2014 Handy chruby commands
  • July 29, 2014 Grammarly for people like me who suck at grammar and stuff
  • July 28, 2014 And now I present Initials Avatar
  • July 27, 2014 What is Acceptance Criteria?
  • July 26, 2014 More awesome Ruby resources
  • July 25, 2014 Haiku Friday - Ruby sometimes its black magic!
  • July 24, 2014 Transformation Thursday - C# to Ruby, What is the equivalent of a Method in Ruby
  • July 23, 2014 Practicing Ruby - some awesome lessons for all programmers
  • July 22, 2014 String substitution and fixing the send email with csv code
  • July 21, 2014 Sending emails using Ruby with nothing more than the core library and a csv
  • July 20, 2014 C# to Ruby String Interpolation
  • July 19, 2014 How to put your Ruby constructors on a diet
  • July 18, 2014 Haiku Friday - Pay the Piper
  • July 17, 2014 Transformation Thursday - C# to Ruby, What is the equivalent of a Class in Ruby
  • July 16, 2014 The easiest way to get Github Pages working with an Alias, AName, A record
  • July 15, 2014 C# to Ruby how to send an Email message
  • July 14, 2014 Get Rails working with Postgresql
  • July 13, 2014 An introduction to Rails - Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl
  • July 12, 2014 Handy RVM Commands
  • July 11, 2014 Haiku Friday - Why's (Poignant) Guide To Ruby
  • July 10, 2014 Transformation Thursday - C# to Ruby, What is the equivalent of a Namespace in Ruby
  • July 9, 2014 C# to Ruby how to Base64 Encode
  • July 8, 2014 Keeping to a plan why is it so hard?
  • July 7, 2014 Taking stock of where I am on my journey to learning Ruby and Rails
  • July 6, 2014 Ruby Koans - My Thoughts on completing The Ruby Koans
  • July 5, 2014 C# to Ruby - Proxies
  • July 4, 2014 Haiku Friday - Ruby Koans
  • July 3, 2014 On the importance of rest
  • July 2, 2014 Ruby Koans part 2 - my thoughts thus far
  • July 1, 2014 The Ruby Way - What does it mean?
  • June 30, 2014 Ruby Koans how did I only find out about this now?
  • June 29, 2014 Rails - Here is my plan to learn Ruby
  • June 28, 2014 Tracking your goals
  • June 27, 2014 Haiku Friday - My week with Rails!
  • June 26, 2014 Setting proper deadlines
  • June 25, 2014 How to set your goals the right way
  • June 24, 2014 ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesError in BlogPostsController#comments
  • June 23, 2014 How to encourage collaboration amongst programmers
  • June 22, 2014 Rails - my plan to get a pull request accepted
  • June 21, 2014 Being productive or trying to be at least