Juixe TechKnow Zenze is now hosted by TextDrive. I moved Juixe TechKnow Zenze to TextDrive because my old hosting solution has been a a little flaky as of late. For the past few years Juixe has been kindly hosted by my comrade in code Vlad. It is sad to move on because [...]
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Here are several links that might be useful to you if you are starting off with Ruby on Rails. Here you will find links to free Ruby on Rails hosting, the Ruby programming language, Rails tutorials, and even an online interactive ruby interpreter.
Juixe TechKnow Zenze Ruby Archive
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Programming Ruby
Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and [...]
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Who said that Java does not have memory leaks? In fact I think that is a good question to ask new grads. Everyone knows that Java’s garbage collection will reclaim unreferenced objects. The problems is that some objects are still referenced even when they are no longer needed.
I been working on a [...]
Why are technology books sooo voluminous, they are usually 500 page coffee tables as opposed to a coffee table book. I feel that most of the pertinent information can be condensed to a 40 page manual or how-to cookbook if they remove all the fluff. When dealing with new technology, lets say [...]
I recently worked on a defect on a customer site where all the feedback I got from the server was ‘Set Method failed – null.’ The root cause of the defect had little to do with the code the logged this cryptic ‘debug’ message. The root cause was deeper than this; the root [...]
For those old skool C/C++ programmers Java 1.5 introduced a new formatting method to the PrintStream class similar to the old C printf function. The sample code below formats a float value to display only two decimal places:
out.printf("$%.2f", 12.3); // $12.30
A friend of mine saw the code above and thought it was a [...]
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