Monthly Archives: March 2007

GeoKit: UK Geocoding

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Bill

For those of you interested in UK Geocoding, I just saw this post come across the wire.  If you aren’t doing anything of high-volume or with high-availability needs, maybe this is a temporary answer for you. I’ve received quite a … Continue reading →

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Deploying CruiseControl.rb with Custom Tasks

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Bill

More and more work is being done by geographically disparate teams these days, so a continuous integration tool like CruiseControl.rb is quite useful. Andre and I could have used this when we were heads down with GeoKit. But better late … Continue reading →

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GeoKit: A Tiny Update

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Bill

Its been a while since I tinkered with GeoKit, but when I read this post, I thought I’d take a look at a couple of things that were mentioned. James wrote that it would be nice to be able to … Continue reading →

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What's your Tech Stack?

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Bill

I have been assigned a “little buddy” at work to become my replacement — do you think they know something?  This is the first move toward redundancy in quite some time, so maybe so. Anyway, so I started asking some … Continue reading →

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Why IT Sucks

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Bill

Just to be clear, IT in this context means being in an IT department, not being in the IT industry. I’ve spent a combined five years in IT departments of two companies — one a large company another a small … Continue reading →

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Taming the Beast

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Bill

In my continuing efforts to work Ruby and Rails into the Enterprise, I’ve been working on adapting Rick Olson and Josh Goebel’s Beast discussion forums engine. Its excellent work on their part and quite fun to play with. My adaptations … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, YUI | 2 Comments