November 2008 - Jason Meridth

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Twitterfeed.com killed my Google Reader

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 "real-time"...

Published Sun, Nov 30 2008 6:37 PM by Jason Meridth
PTOM: November 2008: Visitor Design Pattern

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...

Published Sun, Nov 30 2008 4:15 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: .NET, ruby, Design Patterns
Library Thing

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 at home to query Amazon...

Published Thu, Nov 27 2008 12:11 PM by Jason Meridth
[OT] Child's Play Charity

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 the Child's Play Charity . It is a merging...

Published Wed, Nov 26 2008 9:30 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: charity
Creating an older rails project with multiple (newer) versions installed

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 tree because the version of rails was older...

Published Tue, Nov 25 2008 3:27 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: ruby, rspec
Partnership

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 CodeBetter...

Published Tue, Nov 25 2008 11:51 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Blogs, LosTechies, friends
Gmail Labs

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 was going to be before...

Published Fri, Nov 14 2008 8:51 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Tools, email
Visual SVN Server

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 the...

Published Thu, Nov 13 2008 3:54 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Tools, Subversion
Trying to restore my Twitter account

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 or a while. I decided...

Published Thu, Nov 13 2008 8:51 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: twitter
"Printer Friendly Versions" of our posts now available

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 to our reader for sharing...

Published Wed, Nov 05 2008 1:53 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: LosTechies

November 2008 - Jason Meridth

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Twitterfeed.com killed my Google Reader

PTOM: November 2008: Visitor Design Pattern

Library Thing

[OT] Child's Play Charity

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

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Trying to restore my Twitter account

"Printer Friendly Versions" of our posts now available