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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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Thoughts on Git

Monday, May 18th, 2009

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 [...]

Summer Goals

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

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 [...]

Setting Rails on OS X Leopard

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 [...]

4-H Camp Control Center – Technical Side

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

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 [...]

Rails v ASP.NET

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

So for the past few weeks at work I’ve been working with ASP.Net for a simple project. This is my first impression of ASP and I’ll have to say, I’m less than impressed. I’ve used a few web languages beforehand, Perl, PHP, java(both servlets and jsp) and lately I’ve been in love with Ruby on [...]

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