If you’ve been looking for a good excuse to learn Ruby on Rails, now is a great time. Sitepoint.com is giving away the full PDF of “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications” through the end of the month of November. All you need to do is provide an email address and they’ll send [...]

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I’ve been a user of the excellent IntelliJ Java IDE for 4 years on Windows. Even though the official Linux support by JetBrains is only for RedHat, you can also install IntelliJ fairly easily on Ubuntu. I’ve tested this with Xubunto 7.10 (Gutsy), Java 6, and IntelliJ 7. Here’s how to do it in four [...]

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My mobile phone was getting a little long in the tooth, so I’ve been researching phones for a few months. As tempting as the iPhone is, I didn’t want to switch to AT&T. A couple of weeks ago I took the plunge and bought the HTC Mogul instead. Here are the highlights that made the [...]

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