Monthly Archives: November 2008

Twitterfeed.com killed my Google Reader

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Jason Meridth

We recently created a TwitterFeed.com account for LosTechies.  What this service does is query your RSS feed and whenever a new post is created, it will tweet the blog entry information.  I’m back on twitter and read it religiously.  The … Continue reading →

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PTOM: November 2008: Visitor Design Pattern

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Jason Meridth

Definition Visitor Design Pattern – “Represent an operation to be performed on the elements of an object structure. Visitor lets you define a new operation without changing the classes of the elements on which it operates. ” dofactory.com Another term … Continue reading →

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Library Thing

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Jason Meridth

UPDATE: Shelfari.com has a much better UI and is just as awesome.  I’ve made the switch I can’t remember whose blogger profile I was looking at but I saw a link for LibraryThing.com.  I had created a personal web application … Continue reading →

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[OT] Child’s Play Charity

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Jason Meridth

A few of my posts lately have been non-technical, and this one is following suit, hence the OT (Off Topic) prefix on the post.  If you play video games, via console or PC/MAC, please take a moment and check out … Continue reading →

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Creating an older rails project with multiple (newer) versions installed

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Jason Meridth

I have been studying rspec the last week or two and have been using Rail 2.1.2 to do my exploring.  I was finally ready to jump into some legacy code and couldn’t even create a spec folder on the directory … Continue reading →

Posted in rspec, ruby | 1 Comment

Partnership

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Jason Meridth

Since LosTechies was started we’ve tried to make sure we have created a community that educates.  By doing that we’ve had to stand on the shoulders of a few giants/masters/leaders.  One of those leaders for us was Brendan Tompkins of … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, friends, LosTechies | 1 Comment

Gmail Labs

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Jason Meridth

Maybe I’m a little late noticing this, but the Labs option once you’re in your gmail settings: I was using the Better Gmail plugin from LifeHacker for a while before Google upgraded gmail.  I enjoyed the fact that my signature … Continue reading →

Posted in email, Tools | 6 Comments

Visual SVN Server

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Jason Meridth

Due to the new policies by Assembla.com (not allowing free private source repositories), I’ve had to finally grab another server and stand-up Visual SVN Server.  It’s free, VERY easy to manage and worked like a charm once installed.  Kudos to … Continue reading →

Posted in Subversion, Tools | 3 Comments

Trying to restore my Twitter account

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Jason Meridth

update:  created armmer account after following Ben’s advice below. To any Twitter employees out there: I have been trying for about a month now to get my twitter account restored.  I decided to delete it and focus on other things … Continue reading →

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"Printer Friendly Versions" of our posts now available

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Jason Meridth

As shown in the example post above (thanks Jimmy), you know have the ability to view a “Printer Friendly Version” of the current post.  This was a result of one of our readers contacting Chad and us responding.  Thank you … Continue reading →

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