Table of Contents

Please find below my 225 posts, ordered by month. This “Table of Contents” is automatically updated.

March 2010 (1)
- 05: Heads up: IBM is looking for top notch student hackers (0)
January 2010 (1)
- 21: DB2 support for Ruby/Rails turns 2.0 (0)
December 2009 (1)
- 03: Grab DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 now and join the DB2Night Show (1)
November 2009 (1)
- 20: Setup Ruby Enterprise Edition, nginx and Passenger (aka mod_rails) on Ubuntu (6)
October 2009 (3)
- 21: What is DB2 pureScale? (3)
- 19: Add code highlighting to your Google Waves (5)
- 08: Getting MacRuby’s compiler to work (5)
September 2009 (7)
- 24: The CRTC tries to eliminate ISP competition in Canada (2)
- 13: Benchmarking Tornado vs. Twisted Web vs. Tornado on Twisted (27)
- 10: Installing and configuring DB2 Express-C 9.7 on Ubuntu 9.04 Server (5)
- 09: Improve the speed and security of your SQL queries (5)
- 08: Enabling support for DB2 and Python/Django/SQLAlchemy on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (0)
- 06: Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada. Enough Is Enough! (15)
- 03: Installing the Ruby driver for DB2 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (1)
August 2009 (10)
- 31: Startup for sale on eBay (and it’s a great deal) (1)
- 28: DB2 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (13)
- 24: Recommended Ruby and Rails books (August 2009) (7)
- 15: Do programmers still buy printed books? (39)
- 14: My latest order of programming books (12)
- 10: How much faster is Ruby on Linux? (13)
- 07: On Scala’s future (24)
- 06: The DB2 adapter now supports Django 1.1 (1)
- 04: A faster Ruby on Windows is possible (benchmarks for 4 implementations inside) (22)
- 03: Comparing the performance of IronRuby, Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9 on Windows (19)
July 2009 (4)
- 28: On JRuby’s importance for the future of Ruby (6)
- 27: Why technical marketing is important for programmers (4)
- 22: Serving Django Static Files through Apache (11)
- 21: In defense of ad-based business models (3)
June 2009 (6)
- 29: Reasons to switch to DB2 9.7 (4)
- 26: Apple “Genius” (6)
- 19: DB2 Express-C 9.7 and the Django adapter released (11)
- 16: Selling my old MacBook Pro (1)
- 10: Discussing code reading and testing with Dave Thomas, Cory Foy and Tim Bray (0)
- 05: Do Androids Count Electric Sheep with DB2 or MySQL? (26)
May 2009 (6)
- 27: Of labels and limits (5)
- 25: Announcing ThinkCode.TV’s new English newsletter (0)
- 22: TextMate bundle for DB2 (1)
- 18: Memoization in Ruby and Python (15)
- 16: Startup Interviews: Zooppa.com (4)
- 14: Ruby 1.9 screencasts plus an announcement (2)
April 2009 (5)
- 27: Screencast on how to install DB2 Express-C on Mac OS X (7)
- 22: The Best DB2 Ever (15)
- 14: Canadians, fight Internet Usage Based Billing (UBB) (18)
- 13: Startup Interviews: Balsamiq Studio LLC (10)
- 05: Better Software 2009 and Pycon Italia Tre (1)
March 2009 (7)
- 29: Why MacRuby Matters (Present & Future) (47)
- 23: Ruby’s Biggest Challenge for 2009 (39)
- 18: IBM Cloud Computing Webinar (2)
- 17: Do you read the Rubyist and Rails Magazine? (6)
- 17: IBM’s Python driver is out of beta (2)
- 16: New look and feel. Do you like it? (6)
- 11: Introducing Redis: a fast key-value database (20)
February 2009 (5)
- 26: Scaling Rails Screencasts (4)
- 23: Do you really need Venture Capital funding? (8)
- 18: DB2 support for Django is coming (18)
- 16: Unlocking intermediate resolutions on Sony Vaio FWs (20)
- 16: Sony Vaio FW Series: A Developer’s Review (86)
January 2009 (3)
- 28: Let’s all grow up (58)
- 20: Install DB2 on Mac OS X and give us feedback (47)
- 01: Monte Carlo simulation of the Monty Hall Problem in Ruby and Python (29)
December 2008 (9)
- 30: Developers are blinded by the light (15)
- 28: Random thoughts on software piracy and open source business models (13)
- 23: DB2 on Mac officially released (20)
- 19: Download DB2 on Mac (8)
- 13: Learn Merb (40)
- 12: DB2 on Mac to ship before Christmas (8)
- 10: Reflections on the Ruby shootout (21)
- 09: The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008) (62)
- 01: IBM’s XML Challenge (lots of prizes inside) (18)
November 2008 (8)
- 28: My visit to the Apple Store (41)
- 27: Resolving the gray window when running db2setup (6)
- 14: Merb, Rails Myths, Language Popularity and other Zenbits (1)
- 10: And the winner is… (2)
- 08: The Rise of the Functional Paradigm (6)
- 06: Take this survey and win a free ticket for the Professional Ruby Conference (2)
- 05: Thank you, America! (9)
- 04: Benchmarking DB2 pureXML against 1 TB of XML data (2)
October 2008 (6)
- 28: Pygments TextMate Bundle (5)
- 27: Integrating TextMate and Pygments (1)
- 26: What Arc should learn from Ruby (10)
- 25: Review of the first two Envycasts (0)
- 22: Ruby on Rails at IOD 2008 (3)
- 06: Free version of Ruby in Steel (1)
September 2008 (5)
- 25: Don’t alienate developers (35)
- 22: How companies should hire developers (18)
- 20: Advertise on Zen and the Art of Programming (3)
- 14: Django turns 1.0 (13)
- 09: A status update (3)
August 2008 (1)
- 05: Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers available for pre-order on Amazon.com (13)
July 2008 (7)
- 26: This Week in Ruby (July 26, 2008) (3)
- 25: Goodbye Randy (0)
- 20: Be life savvy: my new non-programming blog (0)
- 18: Rogers has reached a new low (16)
- 14: A close look at three Rails 2.1 bugs (9)
- 11: This Week in Ruby (July 11, 2008) (0)
- 07: Ruby Shootout Status Update (11)
June 2008 (9)
- 27: Ruby and Rails books, two years later (photo) (25)
- 26: IBM’s crazy DB2 videos. What do you think? (6)
- 26: This Week in Ruby (June 26, 2008) (3)
- 23: Heads up regarding the shootout (7)
- 16: This Week in Ruby (June 16, 2008) (4)
- 12: Review of the screencast series The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming (episodes 1-3) (7)
- 11: The future of This Week in Ruby (8)
- 05: MagLev handles trees like a monkey (32)
- 01: Let’s create a Ruby Benchmark Suite (9)
May 2008 (8)
- 31: MagLev rocks and the planning of the next Ruby shootout (31)
- 29: WordPress 2.5.1 breaks your Atom feed (5)
- 29: This Week in Ruby (May 29, 2008) (4)
- 29: Random Thoughts on Social Sites (10)
- 28: Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers (11)
- 20: This Week in Ruby (May 20, 2008) (1)
- 12: This Week in Ruby (May 12, 2008) (5)
- 05: This Week in Ruby (May 5, 2008) (10)
April 2008 (11)
- 29: Finally on Twitter (0)
- 28: This Week in Ruby (April 28, 2008) (6)
- 24: Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition (2)
- 21: This Week in Ruby (April 21, 2008) (5)
- 20: Is the Enterprise world Rails ready? (13)
- 19: On the value of conciseness (5)
- 13: This Week in Ruby (April 14, 2008) (8)
- 08: On The Last Lecture (6)
- 07: This Week in Ruby (April 7, 2008) (7)
- 02: 7 soon to be released Ruby and Rails books (14)
- 01: Announcing Ruby on Crack (39)
March 2008 (7)
- 31: This Week in Ruby (March 31, 2008) (12)
- 25: ‘inject’, ‘each’ and ‘times’ methods much slower in Ruby 1.9 on Mac OS X (21)
- 22: Google Translate’s bug and Google Suggest’s racial oddity (11)
- 20: Django’s tipping point (33)
- 18: Using Python to detect the most frequent words in a file (18)
- 16: Losing my blog title (oh no, I’ve said too much…) (5)
- 04: Rails is the best thing that ever happened to Python (39)
February 2008 (4)
- 29: On Rails and DB2 (10)
- 13: IBM releases DB2 adapter for SQLAlchemy (5)
- 08: Essential guide to the Ruby driver for DB2 (15)
- 04: Ruby.NET is dead (12)
January 2008 (6)
- 30: RailsConf, Arc, Apple and other Zenbits (2)
- 15: Why Engine Yard, Rubinius and Merb matter (11)
- 15: Great Ruby and Rails books (6)
- 08: Ramaze: a Ruby framework that will amaze (15)
- 03: Zed’s Show (3)
- 02: Welcome to IBM, Damien Katz (1)
December 2007 (5)
- 26: Installing Django with PostgreSQL on Ubuntu (6)
- 22: How to install Django with MySQL on Mac OS X (38)
- 21: Programmers Ad Community: 50 invites for Adroll’s private beta (0)
- 07: Ruby on Rails 2.0 has been released and other Zenbits (10)
- 03: The Great Ruby Shootout (54)
November 2007 (7)
- 30: More on Fibonacci. Oops, Sorry Lisp… Haskell runs it 5 times faster (20)
- 28: Holy Shmoly, Ruby 1.9 smokes Python away! (125)
- 27: TextMate is the king of Rails editors (4)
- 27: Ruby, Python, Haskell and Objective-C Feed Survey (3)
- 23: Give Ruby.NET 0.9 some love (2)
- 14: Guide to setting up the IBM Ruby and Python drivers for DB2 on Linux (32 or 64 bit) (3)
- 11: Installing DB2 9.5 on Ubuntu 7.10 (16)
October 2007 (3)
- 31: DB2 Express-C 9.5 is available for download (6)
- 29: IBM’s Python and DB2 drivers released (5)
- 11: Don’t you feel like this sometimes too? (17)
September 2007 (5)
- 26: Are you interested in a DB2 driver for Lua? (3)
- 26: A great combo of lenses for Canon Digital SLRs that won’t break the bank (11)
- 19: DB2 on Mac (42)
- 04: Python, Django and DB2 Status Update (12)
- 01: Guess who’s back? Finally! (2)
August 2007 (3)
- 21: A preliminary review of three Cocoa and Objective-C related books (7)
- 10: Cocoa is my Cup of Tea (3)
- 05: Desktop Applications are not dead! (43)
July 2007 (9)
- 30: In praise of IronRuby’s Source Code (4)
- 28: The most submitted sites on Reddit.com (3)
- 26: Is IronRuby mathematically challenged? (11)
- 24: The end of my Best Buy saga (19)
- 24: Redirecting Atom feeds from Typo and Wordpress to FeedBurner (1)
- 22: Arrivederci Typo (0)
- 10: The Ugly Truth about Best Buy Refunds (366)
- 05: 23 Programming Languages compared through their Amazon book sales (21)
- 04: Ruby and Rails books, Textmate and FastRi (2)
June 2007 (5)
- 27: The Apple approach (aka first impressions of the MacBook Pro) (12)
- 19: On Ruby and Rails Criticism (24)
- 12: Switching to Mac (9)
- 10: Looking for a good laptop for Ruby development (7)
- 01: Getting even more serious about blogging (5)
April 2007 (1)
- 12: PlanetDB2.com and a couple of updates (1)
March 2007 (2)
- 15: Python, Django and DB2: we need your input! (39)
- 13: Haskell Eye for the Ruby Guy (42)
February 2007 (3)
- 19: Ruby Implementations Shootout: Ruby vs Yarv vs JRuby vs Gardens Point Ruby .NET vs Rubinius vs Cardinal (59)
- 10: Top 10 Ruby on Rails performance tips (25)
- 08: Acts As Suggest plugin (12)
January 2007 (6)
- 29: How to run Ruby from Komodo Edit 4 (8)
- 27: Put DB2 in your search bar (2)
- 24: January’s goodies (1)
- 07: Typo errors on postponed articles
- 05: Collage of Ruby and Rails books (3)
- 05: Ruby is the Programming Language of 2006 (2)
December 2006 (4)
- 22: acts_as_one_year_blogging (2)
- 19: DB2 9 for Windows Vista (7)
- 18: Ruby on Rails won’t make it in 2007? (13)
- 06: DB2 on Rails v2.1 released (2)
October 2006 (4)
- 31: Keep an eye on djangobook.com (2)
- 19: CASCON 2006 presentation material (1)
- 17: CASCON 2006: Day One
- 07: A step by step guide on how to install Django with PostgreSQL on Windows (5)
September 2006 (3)
- 13: XML Webcast with IBM’s team plus free book
- 08: Italian Ruby book and cool suggested reading (2)
- 03: Molecule: a much better name ;-)
August 2006 (2)
- 26: Download Ruby 1.8.5 for Windows (3)
- 26: Django is great (14)
July 2006 (4)
- 26: Pure XML Technology in DB2 9
- 24: Typo 4 released
- 03: Ruby.NET Compiler (3)
- 01: Rails hosting review, 7 months later (15)
June 2006 (3)
- 29: Typo and Lucid theme error (2)
- 15: Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails Update (1)
- 05: Download the Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails (6)
May 2006 (2)
- 24: Putting IBM databases on Rails (2)
- 02: Download Ruby 1.9 for Windows (5)
March 2006 (2)
- 31: Working at IBM (6)
- 08: self.move_to(Canada) (8)
February 2006 (1)
- 05: How to parse decimal numbers within a string (3)
January 2006 (5)
- 30: Solving mathematical problems with Ruby
- 30: Ruby Cookbook: Rough Cuts Version (7)
- 22: Ruby rocks and Java sucks? (7)
- 11: How to exclude an action from the controller’s layout processing (1)
- 01: Rails Hosting review (39)
December 2005 (5)
- 31: Moved to Typo (1)
- 26: RMagick Project
- 24: Ruby 1.8.4 released!
- 23: Ruby 1.8.4 preview3
- 22: puts “Hello, Ruby!” (4)

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