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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One word about Drupal

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 - cms

So I only have one thing to say about Drupal. AWESOME. I started playing around with this system about a year or so ago and honestly I’ve only REALLY started to do anything with it in the past few months and the more I use it, the more I love it. I’m currently running 3 [...]

Rails v ASP.NET

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 - featured, programming

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 [...]