Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

If you're like me you produce a lot of screenshots and want to highlight regions with a circle, like so. Except that's just plain ugly if you're doing it in Gimp. I've used numerous graphics design packages on multiple platforms over the year... [More]

The Blogger Rails Tutorial from JumpstartLab is a complete learning experience if you're beginning your Ruby on Rails adventure. While building a simple blogging application you'll touch on all of the basic aspects of Rails devel... [More]

As I recent Linux convert I am learning how to make the most of Gimp after years of using Photoshop, Paint.NET and the Snagit Image Editor in Windows. Gimp is a very capable graphics editing application, but it takes a bit of warming up ... [More]

First of all I bet you didn't know the Chrome History data was stored in a database on your hard drive. Interesting, eh? Here's how to get at it from a linux user's perspective. So everyone knows what we're talking about, your Chro... [More]

If you're starting your Ruby on Rails adventure and learning the ropes you'll probably want to be able to quickly create new Rails applications in virtual directories on a single apache development site.  http://devsite/app1 http://devsite/app... [More]

Hey, a Package Control to make it super easy to install packages in Sublime Text!  Who doesn't want that?  It's the first package you probably want to install in Sublime Text. Here's Package Control in action. Here's the definitive guide fro... [More]

SublimeREPL is an excellent interpreter that runs inside of Sublime Text.  If you encounter an error when attempting to load it containing "Could not find pry" it's because you're missing the Pry Ruby Gem.  I know, sounds obvious, but ... [More]

The default Ruby on Rails page contains an "About Your Application's Environment" link.  Here's what it looks like. If all goes well we will see info on our Ruby version, RubyGems, Rack and other configuration details. I was seeing this fine when us... [More]

I've spent a bit of time in various blogging clients in Linux and have come to the conclusion that they all blow. I've been using Live Writer for years and nothing on any platform--especially Linux--touches WLW in features and sophistication.  My dbv... [More]

This how-to on installing Ruby on Rails in Linux Mint 14 and configuring Apache is provided as a "how we done it here" guide.  Not at all claiming expertise in this domain, but I used this approach on a couple of Linux Mint machines with th... [More]