Monthly Archives: June 2012

Usernames & Passwords As I chronicled in a previous post, I recently wrote an application in Ruby that took advantage of OmniAuth for all of it’s user authentication. As I worked on the application, I decided that I would no longer write an application that did not use OAuth or OpenId to sign-up & log in. The fact ...

EX (I’m weird enough that I actually owned this CD in high school.) What’s this song talking about? In this song, Tennessee Ernie Ford is singing about what would have been a normal “Day-in-the-life-of” setting for workers in the 1800s, specficially coal miners. It was hard work, usually performed by people without many options. It ...

A couple weeks ago ArsTechnia ran a story stating that the Express versions of Visual Studio were going to be super stripped down. As a friend and I discussed on Twitter, I made the comment that the story made me want to learn Ruby. Not long after that, Scott Hanselman (best employee at Microsoft?) corrected ...