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Credit Card Debt Elimination Program

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:30:00 EST

Did you catch yourself in massive credit card debt? Are you looking for various ways to get away with it? There are indeed several ways to solve the problem. Among them are consolidation, credit card debt elimination and bankruptcy--if you choose to. But I'd like to consider consolidation debt elimination among the given options and tackle more of it here to help you in making your decision.

Building a Social Site with Ruby and Rails

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

Over the past year or so I’ve been working on an application that serves as a framework for building a feature rich social networking site. I’ve called this project EngineY. EngineY is a Ruby application that uses the Ruby on Rails framework as its base. As I was building EngineY, I used a real community [...]

Aspect-Oriented Programming and You

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:30:00 EDT

One of the coolest parts of the new SproutCore View layer is its ability to use aspect-based programming to add behaviors to views. Aspect-based programming is built on the premise that often objects that don’t follow from the same class hierarchy may in fact need similar behaviors. This is especially true in GUI programming when designers come to you and say something like “I came up with this new widget - it looks kind of like a progress bar but it acts like a button when you click on it”.

Robust Ruby PaaS Cloud Launched

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:00:00 EDT

Engine Yard is preparing for Ruby growth in the next 12 months and beyond with its latest offerings: Engine Yard Cloud and Flex. Engine Yard Cloud is a services platform that leverages 100 man-years of experience deploying, managing and scaling some of the world's largest Rail sites and makes that know-how accessible to companies looking to run Rails in the cloud. Meanwhile, Flex is a cloud service plan for production-level Rails applications.