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The Learning Library

By TechKnow | November 23, 2010

I’ve always been a book lover. I have a private collection of Ruby, Perl, and Java books, amongst other topics, that would make a public library jealous. In fact, I recently moved and was surprised that that the bulk of the items boxed up where books. I’ve been making the trend of moving my library [...]

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TechKnow Year In Review 2009

By TechKnow | December 31, 2009

It is that time of year where we reflect on the accomplishments of the passing year and look forward to the one to come. Here is a window into the past year in technology through this year’s popular posts on TechKnow Juixe. Top Favorites Laws of Source Code and Software Development Repetative Recursion Technology and [...]

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Quotable DHH 2009

By TechKnow | November 25, 2009

David Heinemeier Hansson, commonly referred as DHH, is a polarizing programmer with a self professed fucking potty-mouth. He is opinionated and uncensored. He is a world renowned hater, he hates big enterprise software, large startup valuations, and apple pie. The web development framework he fashioned after himself is as opinionated and know-it-all as he is. [...]

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Favorite Programming Quotes 2009

By TechKnow | November 18, 2009

When I am not coding I am reading about code. Here is a short list of memerable programming quotes I read over the past year about the science and art of software development. Over this last year, my interest and reading habits have been related to software development, team leadership, and entrepreneurship and this quotes [...]

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Download Twitter Profile Images Using Ruby

By TechKnow | October 27, 2009

Recently, I gave myself the small task of going through all my Twitter retries and downloading each profile image from each Twitter user that replied to me. To access my Twitter replies I used the Twitter Ruby Gem. I am using Twitter gem version 0.4.1. The script is small and pretty concise that it can [...]

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Jamming with Ruby YAML

By TechKnow | October 8, 2009

When working with Ruby, the library/class I use and abuse most often is YAML. YAML stands for YAML Ain’t Markup Language and it is a versatile human friendly data serialization format. It is easier to use and understand than JSON. A YAML file is much like a Java properties file in that is used to [...]

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