For many of us, databases are no fun… surely not as fun as ActiveRecord or Rails in general. Every railers I know love the “dot notation” offered by ActiveRecord associations immensely… while refering to the vast majority of raw SQL queries as “Some ugly non-sense gibberish that we would all prefer not know the existence”. […]

Oh, my… God. What is this? First post in a century? What’s going on here Fleebie? Our beloved readers are going to stop respecting us, and for good reasons. For those who care, I am not dead, I am not sick… I am just working like crazy on Azanka, the company I started with Dan […]

I really would have like to finish part 2 of IM Integration with XMPP4r before Christmas but I wasn’t able to make it, sorry. I didn’t want to rush it neither and it would have been stupid to do so. I just want to wish you a merry Christmas. Have a good time with your […]

I’m proud to present you my latest project : Mrs. Pratt ! Who is Mrs. Pratt? Mrs. Pratt is a super woman who will help you remember where you things are! The idea is simple : You tell Mrs. Pratt whenever you lend something to someone. Say for example that you lent your Bing Crosby […]

The 3rd edition of BarCampMontreal was held on November 3rd. It was a great event really well organized. I could take the time to write about every presentations, but I won’t do it. If you want a better recap of BarCampMontreal3, have a look here or here instead. Instead, I’m going to be selfish and […]

There was a time where Drag & Drop code editors were cool. You just had to select your desired visual component on a toolbar and drag it on your form to see it magically appear in all its glory. Wow, Exactly like the old Win32 days… « We can develop for the web without having […]

I am thinking about that for quite some time now… how about having some posts written by other people once in a while? (Once every month maybe?) If you have something relevant to share with us about anything conerning Ruby, I offer you to do it right here on Ruby Fleebie! just send me your […]

I’m sorry for all of those who prefer my regular tutorial-like posts. This one is just a recap of the last MontrealOnRails conference that was held last tuesday in the StandoutJobs offices. (Psst! They’re hiring… so if you know your Rails, you might want to get in touch with them!). I went there along with […]

Dan and I are extremely excited to release the alpha version of our new project called TimmyOnTime. What is TimmyOnTime? TimmyOnTime is a IM-based time management tool. To use it, you only need a Jabber client like Google Talk or Gaim (MSN or AIM users don’t despair! We also added support for these 2 networks). […]

You know what is the one thing everybody will tell you if you ask them about the ruby programming language? They will tell you that everything is an object, bolding the “everything” like I just did. I think every rubyists in the world said this sentence at least once in their life. After telling you […]