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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Alt.NET Houston Open Spaces 2010
This year, Alt.NET Houston will be hosting it’s 2nd Open Spaces Conference. Last years was such a success that many wanted us to do it again. The What and When This year the conference will be held from Friday, April … Continue reading
Managing Multiple Repositories With Git
I’ve started a small side project with a friend of mine. It’s a Ruby on Rails project and he has been doing the design work while I’ll be handling some of the Ruby/Rails backend pieces. For many reasons we went … Continue reading
Software Craftsmanship: What is a Craftsman
A couple of weekends ago, I attended an Open Spaces developer conference in Austin, TX. The conference had a specific focus on the idea of software craftsmanship. While a nice fishbowl discussion on the open night of the event touched … Continue reading
Pablo’s Fiesta – Los Techies Open Spaces
Over the weekend I made a trip to Austin to attend the Los Techies’ Open Spaces event entitled Pablo’s Fiesta. This was an Open Spaces Conference where the focus was on software craftsmanship. There were a lot of good sessions and I managed to be introduced to several new ideas, technologies, and even a new programming language. While I’m still letting a lot of what I saw, heard, and read while there sink in, you can expect some blog posts in the (near) future about some of the things that were brought up and demonstrated. Continue reading
gEdit Color Themes
I’ve been using gEdit (the default text editor in Ubuntu) to do some Ruby and Ruby on Rails programming the last few weeks. I was using the RadRails plugin for Eclipse but for some reason my computer slows down considerably when using Eclipse. The thing is, gEdit comes with a couple of nice color themes by default but the darker Oblivion theme wasn’t quite to my liking. So I a quick Google search later and I found a repository on GitHub that contains several nice gEdit color themes. I’ve currently settled on the DarkMate them (see screenshot below). Continue reading
H.264 vs. Theora (Software Patents)
The H.264 video codec requires a license to use, the same way the Mp3 codec requires a license to use. While the Theora and Vorbis codecs do not require such licenses, companies like Apple don’t like to use them because they have their hands in other codecs (H.264 or AAC in Apple’s case). Continue reading →