The Third Edition of Michael Hartl’s Ruby on Rails Tutorial is Available on Amazon!

Ruby on Rails logo

The most widely known way (which is also often described as the best way) to learn Ruby on Rails is the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. Its third edition, which covers Rails 4, has been available as both a digital book and video screencasts for several months on Hartl’s Rails Tutorial website, but was just … Read more

Quick Fixes on SSIS with Oracle Data Sources

SSIS logo

I’m currently in the process of building out an ODS (Operational Data Store) that will integrate data from multiple systems and make that data available for reporting using Spotfire and other BI tools. Both the ODS DBMS and the first system that will be used as a source for the data in the ODS run … Read more

Completing the Core iOS 7 Code School Course Using XCode 6.x

iOS logo

One of the classes that must be completed on the iOS Path for Code School is Core iOS 7. When this course was published, version 7 was the most recent iOS release and the IDE used was XCode 5 from Apple. This course may be done using XCode 6.x, and most of the exercises will … Read more