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I hate DRM…

Posted by draper on Friday, September 4th, 2009

This topic has without a doubt been something that has been talked to death but unfortunately, I have to put in my two cents. Its simple, I hate DRM, its killing me.
Let me be clear, I’m a pirate, by the standards of the MPAA, RIAA & such I am a pirate because I want [...]

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Ruby for backing up

Posted by draper on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Backup, backup, backup! That’s the motto of the day and its good one to live by, for everyone. I personally know that I do not backup as much as I should but that’s mainly because I don’t believe that you can ever backup too much. For my personal computers I use a [...]

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Setting Rails on OS X Leopard

Posted by draper on Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Over the past year it seems like I’ve setup a new mac for daily usage at least 5 times and for the life of me I can’t remember why this has happened so much. I really haven’t purchased that many new computers(in fact only 1), but I remember this painstaking process quit vividly multiple [...]

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I hate DRM…

Friday, September 4th, 2009 - cms, featured, uncategorized

This topic has without a doubt been something that has been talked to death but unfortunately, I have to put in my two cents. Its simple, I hate DRM, its killing me.
Let me be clear, I’m a pirate, by the standards of the MPAA, RIAA & such I am a pirate because I want [...]

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Ruby for backing up

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 - featured, projects, scripts

Backup, backup, backup! That’s the motto of the day and its good one to live by, for everyone. I personally know that I do not backup as much as I should but that’s mainly because I don’t believe that you can ever backup too much. For my personal computers I use a [...]

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Thoughts on Git

Monday, May 18th, 2009 - programming, projects

So as per my previous summer goals list I had decided to move to using GIT instead of my current subversion server. Why I chose to do this was largely based on the fact that in the rails community GIT is almost a standard now and if I want to be able to [...]

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Macbook Web Server Setup

Sunday, May 17th, 2009 - productivity, projects

I noted in my summer goals post that I would blog about each item of my summer goals that I’ve completed and I get the wonderful joy of crossing this one off! Without a doubt, this has been the easiest task to cross off.

The laptop I’m using is the first generation Macbook 13” [...]

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Summer Goals

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 - productivity, programming, projects

Let me start off by saying I’m a list NERD. Anything and everything I need to do goes on a list. I love Omnifocus like it was my own kid and I use it constantly to keep up with what I want to be and should be doing. However I’m also into [...]

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Setting Rails on OS X Leopard

Sunday, April 12th, 2009 - featured, programming

Over the past year it seems like I’ve setup a new mac for daily usage at least 5 times and for the life of me I can’t remember why this has happened so much. I really haven’t purchased that many new computers(in fact only 1), but I remember this painstaking process quit vividly multiple [...]

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4-H Camp Control Center – Technical Side

a shot of my development setup for the 4-H system showing a leopard desktop with textmate, a terminal and firefox

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 - cms, featured, programming, projects

This post is in regards to the 4-H Camp Control Center that I built for the local 4-H office in Henry County. I have described the project in detail regarding its use and requirements in a previous post so please at least skim that over and this post will make a bit more sense [...]

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4-H Camp Control Center – The Story

a picture of the 4-H Login Screen for the Camp Control Center system

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 - projects

Over the next few weeks I’m going to take the time and highlight a few of the projects that I’ve worked on in web development and any other technological area. I’m doing this so that employers that may be interested in my work can quickly see what I can do as well as my [...]

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A year in the life

Monday, April 6th, 2009 - personal

I know it seems a bit late for the “New Year’s Resolution” type post but I’m a bit late sometimes!
Over the last year a lot in my life has changed; I’ve graduated from college, got married, worked as a .NET developer and I’m currently working as a technician in a school system. This has [...]

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SSH Key Pairing

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 - featured, terminal fun

This is going to be a very short post. I’m going to tell you in simple terms how to setup ssh key-pairing for automatic login via ssh. In this example we will have two computers – a server and a workstation. We will be connecting from workstation to server remotely(or in the same network, it [...]

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