business-boy.com blog

Short version:

tools.business-boy.com : a new place for tools to help you.

TSX New Company Listing RSS : first tool.

Long version:

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If your hosting service (bluehost) does not allow for gem installs (none will, or shouldn’t), don’t worry you can still get your silky smooth hands on all rubyforge has to offer. You can still install gems locally in the “vendor” directory under your rails app. This is sometime referred to as “expanding a gem” or “unpacking a gem” but when you hit the help that won’t help you , this is all that needs to be done:

- Go to vendor directory: cd railsapp/vendor

- Install the gem to that directory: gem install -i ./ gemname

Queue Staples Button.

We use to be on the dollar bill… THE DOLLAR BILL!!!!

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+1 Sunday

Was your residence built prior to the dawn of time/the invention of the gas furnace? Does it have a coal chute that is not good for much more than letting heat out? If it does than by all means read on for the illustrated HOWTO on getting rid of it.
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OK.

So my girlfriend and I have decided that in a years time we would like to be moving into a house. In what will be the first of a (hopefully) series, I will divulge any tips / tricks and steps I learn along the way. (more…)

Business-Boy is what it is. It will hopefully be a semi-regularly released magazine type deal. And just like every other magazine it will have its particular niche audience, and that is about it. While the site may have some other bells and whistles the primary focus will be on the magazine.

What nothing new and earth shattering?

Nope, not really. It is mostly just the same ol’ same ol’ from a different view.

While I could just keep posting to this blog, I suppose I just wanted something more tangible, less personal, and something where some more thought and time goes into the editing process. As well, the magazine format seems more conducive to collaboration…there are many a business-boy in the world today.

In the meantime though the blog will have to suffice. So might as well use it:

Cheats:

- If you have no brown sugar and you want to make cookies, or anything else that may require brown sugar, mix molasses and white sugar.

- If you’re +1000$ in your bank account put all/most of your money into President’s Choice Interest Plus account. 4% interest AND an annual bonus is a pretty good deal. I’m sure ING Direct is cooking up a huge counter offensive. Don’t get too pumped though, banks still make all the money.

- Whenever you are in a place that is not your home town and has non-Hallmark type greeting cards, STOCK UP! They will no doubt come in handy at some point and always go over better than the run of the mill basura, que Hallmark hecho.

After much frustration magpi should be available for checkout shortly. It is currently being imported to the SVN repository and will be available for checkout using:

svn checkout http://magpi.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ magpi

Some notes for people having problems performing an import to a Google hosted repository ensure when you are performing your initial import you use https, their FAQ simply reads :

“How do I import my existing source code?

Just use the ’svn import’ command.”

gee thanks… this is what needs to happen, from inside the directory you want to import:

svn import -m “Initial Import of Source Code” . https://PROJECTNAME.googlecode.com/svn/trunk –username GOOGLE_ACCOUNT_USERNAME

Then once prompted for a password use the one that is autogenerated by Google for you.

I’m hoping to host our super secret software project on Google Projects, so everyone can have access and a hand in developing it. (secret’s out!) But alas it seems Google Project is on the fritz at the moment.

So since that is a bust here is this:
1) If ever the need to rent formal attire arises, and shoes are part of the deal. A prudent move would be to purchase a cheap pair of Dr.Scholl’s (or some other brand) footbeds, or something similar. Prometheus pays off!

2) If you are coming from a Java background and want to program in Ruby, and you want to do a null check on an object instead of doing the old tyme comparator: