Mack Framework

I've got a pretty awesome wife. She let me play in the studio all weekend while she watched the kids. She kicks ass! I love ya Rache. # Just a reminder that today is National Pick on Gerardo day (observed) # I hate Allston traffic. # Don't forget today is North American Pick on Gerardo Day. # Had an [...]

Having to deal with a naughty 2 year old is not the way to start a Monday v # I can't seem to get the latest Cola War Vets song out of my head. "All I want to say is goodnight, my friend." # My favorite error message so far today is "Cannot pull changes. pimp is [...]

About.com became the first, that I know about, to review my book, “Distributed Programming with Ruby”. What a great first review to have as well. They rated the book 5 out of 5 stars! The review can be found here. “Anyone working with distributed programming in Ruby will want this book.” The only downside they saw in [...]

Well folks, it’s been a long road, nearly a year since I presented the idea for “Distributed Programming with Ruby” to Obie Fernandez in a hot tub in Florida, but finally my book is done, dusted, back from the printers and available for purchase from a variety of places, include Amazon.com! It was an absolutely amazing [...]

At work recently we had a need to build a large Rails application that we then wanted to, for lack of a better word, subclass. Unfortunately there is no real good way of doing that. Rails Engines and templates have way too may limitations. We wanted to bundle up the entire Rails app (models, controllers, [...]

So with my book, Distributed Programming with Ruby, finally finished, and a nice long weekend I was able to sit down and work on a little pet project of mine. I decided to work on a little site that I could use to track my rather large Pez collection. (Yes, I know, I collect Pez [...]

The latest version of Apple Push Notifications on Rails (APN on Rails) has been released. This release brings a few bug fixes, a new migration, and Feedback processing. Installing/upgrading is easy: $ sudo gem install apn_on_rails $ ruby ... [More] script/generate apn_migrations $ rake db:migrate It’s important to always run the migrations generator after each update to get the latest database schema [...] [Less]

I’m now entering the home stretch of writing the Distributed Programming with Ruby book. I’m just a few weeks away, well, technically I’m hours away from finishing the last chapter (Delayed Job) in the official table of contents, however, I’m going to add another chapter and a half. Why? Mostly because I’m a glutton for [...]

The other night I submitted a new iPhone application to the Apple Store. The app, which I’ll speak about when, and if it gets approved, uses the new Apple Push Notification service available in iPhone OS 3.0. On the server side I have a Rails application that I am using to send the notifications to [...]

Recently I was sent a survey from the college I attended, the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts. In the survey I was asked a question about what I’ve done in the field of music, that’s what my degree is in, since I’ve graduated. I typed up a rather long winded answer to the question [...]