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Stemmer gem. The unreleased version of Bishop uses Ray Pereda's port to Ruby of Martin Porter's word stemming algorithm. I've used this code before and I noticed Lucas uses the same code. Despite it's size it made sense to us to package it as a RubyGem so that others could make use of it without… Continue reading Stemmer gem

The Case of the Missing COA. Isn't it wonderful how easy Microsoft makes it to be one of their customers? All you have to do is find a reseller or OEM who can be trusted to supply you with “Genuine Windows” software and pay your money. And then activate it, of course, and you'd also… Continue reading The Case of the Missing COA

ProNet: Firefox to make your life easier. Most of you who are doing heavy web development work have told us that you're using Firefox as your browser of choice, and if so, there's a few absolutely indispensable extensions that we'd recommend adding to your toolkit. … [Six Apart News]

The Land of the IT Cheat Sheets. SearchSMB has compiled a nice list of IT Cheat Sheets on topics ranging from C++ to XML, from cabling to Excel. This is a definite bookmark for LiB! Some of the resources are not “IT” as I think of it,… [LibrarianInBlack]

T-Mobile Offers Street-Level Coverage Maps. T-Mobile cell and hotspot subscribers can use this to find out specific coverage areas: This is a marvelous tool and one all carriers should emulate. It shows specific levels of expected signal strength for T-Mobile's cellular network–this would help plan for GPRS use as well as voice–and has a checkbox… Continue reading T-Mobile Offers Street-Level Coverage Maps

Speeding up Safari. It seems like every month, Safari runs just a little bit slower on my PowerBook. Some sites are worse then others—I can’t visit cnn.com or newegg.com without staring at the spinning beachball of death for 5 or 10 seconds. Even worse, whenever this happens, Mail or NetNewsWire tend to go away as… Continue reading Speeding up Safari

Xen, finally. I finally have Xen working on a system at home. I hadn’t expected this to be very difficult, but apparently Xen doesn’t like my new Athlon 64 system (bought mostly for running Xen). They’ll fix it eventually, but for now I’m using an old Athlon 700 system that I had sitting around. It… Continue reading Xen, finally

Rails success. My little Rails project at work is starting to wind down finally. I’ve been heads-down on this thing for almost a week, but it seems to be worth it—I have a nice UI around my database, along with a clean schema to replace the hacked-up one from the previous design. I have 8… Continue reading Rails success

One year of VoIP. From looking back over my phone records, it looks like today marks the beginning of my second year of VoIP. I’m not sure which day I actually set up my Asterisk server, but I signed up with NuFone on March 23, 2004, one year ago today. At the time, I paid… Continue reading One year of VoIP

Running your company on web apps. Evhead rounds up the web apps that help run Odeo. Visit site [SimpleBits]