In Part 1 of Speeding up the Site, we optimised some images and removed AddThis. In this post, we try to optimise all the images before we push the site. Note: FAILED! In this page, I had hoped to ...
I started on the site around Christmas 2016 and have been adding things to it over time, assuming that a static site with very little Javascript and nothing special on it other than content and the...
People from the Linux/ UNIX/ MacOS world wonder about the HOME on Windows and this came up in a Twitter thread recently. The response on how to make HOME more visible and present on Windows was a b...
In the Ruby world, Bundler is fantastic when it comes to dependency management. But sometimes, when you use it, especially for an older Ruby version, you might run into certificate errors. HereR...
In this post, we look at the steps required to run Android Studio on Windows 10. My main reason to do so is to build some simple apps and to also try to use JRuby on Android with the Ruboto project...
A common question in the Ruby world (especially from newbies) is to wonder how to produce a stand-alone executable that can be distributed. Ruby is inherently an interpreted language and currently ...
This site is set up on IBM Cloud and built using Jekyll. The previous posts in the Journey to Jekyll with IBM Cloud/ Bluemix have covered bits about getting started. In the previous post in this se...
Ruby has an important release every year on Christmas Day. As a result, it’s very likely that over a period of time, you will have a few important versions of Ruby installed on your computer....
I don’t cook a lot but sometimes, I find a recipe that looks easy to follow, is fast and is delicious. I found this video on YouTube about making a better grilled cheese toastie (or as the co...
It’s generally a good idea to keep your gem installation clean and you can do that by doing gem cleanup or gem cleanup [GEM_NAME] which will remove the older versions of the gem. Of course, s...
The normal method for using PostgreSQL on your Windows machine is to download the installer and then set it up. It’s easy and will do all the necessary things that you need for it. It will al...
I spent a few hours fighting this because I was not paying attention to the warnings but I learned a couple of things along the way, so I decided to put this in a short post so that I remember it f...
Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write (from the Ruby web site). On Chri...
I noticed and responded to a Tweet that simply asked – what tips would you give to beginners who are just starting out (in coding/ programming)? We all started out somewhere! Coders, tell us ...
I normally use Ruby directly for sending e-mail from scripts that need to send out status, etc. I was recently looking at the ActionMailer code that we have in a Rails project and I felt that it is...
When using Rubymine with RuboCop in a slightly complex Ruby project, you might occasionally see an error like this which you feel is strange since the path in question is available to your Ruby pro...
At long last, I am changing my PC – moving up from my old workhorse to, well, a newer work horse. However, it usually takes me a few weeks to get my new computer set up. Over the (past 20) ye...
These are two short notes to remind myself about how a couple of things in Git work. Changing master to main The following works to change master to main. E:\repo> git branch -m master main E:\r...
I use Ruby a lot on Windows and it’s quite common to use a simple Command file to launch the script, especially when scheduling it using something like Windows Scheduler or PyCron. When launc...
Every now and then, we get data that has a date time string in the local time zone but with no time zone specified. This short note is on how to attach the correct time zone to the data so that it ...
Way back in time from 2004 – 2010, I spent a lot of time working in embedded real-time operating systems, mainly focusing on the use of µC/OS-II and the Japanese T-Kernel which evolved ...
There are a few ways to ensure that your Ruby application/ script has all its dependencies available when you set it up or deploy. The most common way is to use Bundler so that you can specify your...
All Ruby and Rails developers need to use Ruby gems for common work. It’s also a great practice for you to create your own Gems to separate functionality that you can reuse across your projec...
Recently, for some work, I had a question about all the dependencies that a gem had. I went to the gem specification file and took a look – that obviously had a list of gems which had their o...
This site is set up on IBM Cloud and built using Jekyll. When I took a casual look at securing this blog site with HTTPS, it looked like using ZeroSSL (as a free SSL certificate provider) should ha...