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if you’ve never been to yahoo’s developer network, then it’s my turn to say: where you been ma? Today yahoo presented one of their cooler apps: the yahoo search monkey. Search Monkey lets you define more information for your search results when searched in yahoo. In other words, customize your search results! On the side [...]

I was watching this presentation on Flex… And I’m asking myself: dude, where’ve i been all this while? Flex rocks! I’m gonna be looking at it once i’m done with learning the crazy prototype, jquery, and scriptaculous… Phew… Turns out that by itself is more than just a walk down the park… It’s more (to [...]

it’s a fine saturday morning and i’m not in bed (What?). That’s right L&G’s! Barcamp’s in town, and i’m warming up my cold ass on the tiny seats (truth is, my ass is huge) of the presentation rooms this fine day. Cool stuff coming up today! We got yahoo dev network, we got presentations on [...]

Last weekend, I finally decided to upgrade my Gutsy to Hardy. After the installation, everything was working fine. The only thing is that I have no Firebug on Firefox3. I tried to install it through it’s website but it said that it’s not compatible with mine. Googling the net, I found out that it’s a [...]

Here’s the slides I used to explain pair progamming to my peeps – whew! Pair programming looks like fun. We’ll be doing it next week, so more on this later!! Before I forget (and I do it a lot), here’s the link to the file

Ever gone on a road trip – alone? Not much fun is it? With a Big Mac in your mouth, you’ve got to have one eye on the road, one hand on the steering wheel, the other eye on a map, and the other hand clutching it. Now that’s a feat even unicycle riding, ball [...]

It’s been a while since i posted anything up on this blog. Meanwhile, our programmer fadhli, has been busy – in the right way of course. Here’s a link to his own blog for a post that talks about rails 2.1′s new script that helps manage your database… And i promised some posts on agile [...]

I was running the functional test and didn’t realize it was sending actual emails from my data fixtures. However, I did learn how to globally set the email settings so not to send the emails out during tests. If you want to use this, create a file called global_email_settings.rb (or whatever you want to name [...]

Here’s a link to a blog with a Youtube video link talking about Google’s much awaited Android – sorta like a phoneOS… But the keynote spells out more than that, and Vic Gondotra, one of Google’s VPs, does a good job of explaining things… and of where Google’s headed with the internet and with world [...]

What’s Rails without Git version control right? Here’s a cheatsheet on Git by Jan Kruger from http://jan-krueger.net/git I thought I knew it all already… well… never hurts to learn… that is, until you suffer from CM (yeah, that’s cranial meltd-… i know you know it already!)