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Programming

Simple Ruby Tip – Return Multiple Values

September 16, 2017 By wildeng

Return Multiple Values As many of you already know, everything in Ruby is an object so, when you create a method, it actually returns an object. What I want to show here is how to return multiple values (multiple objects) out of a Ruby function. Unfortunately Ruby does not support the returning of multiple objects, […]

Programming

How to Change Rails 4 Default Binding IP

January 28, 2017 By wildeng

Change Rails 4 default binding IP A couple of days ago, while upgrading company’s platform from Rails 3.2.22.2 to Rails 4.2.7, I noticed that the default IP was bound to localhost. I couldn’t then remotely access the application running on my development virtual machine. This is due to a change in Rack for security reasons, as […]

Linux tips

Find files between two dates

April 24, 2016 By wildeng

Find files between two dates I’d like to share a simple way I’ve learned to find how many files have been created between two dates, using Linux command line. The method involves find command. Problem Working on a project that involved the creation of a lot of KOS objects (nothing difficult, just another DICOM object), I […]

General

12 awesome iPhone camera tricks anyone can do | Macworld

December 31, 2015 By wildeng

A nice article I found on Macworld!! Face it, you take 99 percent of your photos with your iPhone. Make them the best they can be with these pro tips. Source: 12 awesome iPhone camera tricks anyone can do | Macworld

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MySql library not loaded on El Capitan

October 7, 2015 By wildeng

I found a nice and clear solution here: Library Not Loaded issue for mysql client on Mac OS Source: coderwall.com : establishing geek cred since 1305712800

General

Facebook now lets publishers push Instant Articles from any CMS

September 22, 2015 By wildeng

A nice article on Facebook Instant Articles: Publications can now push Instant Articles directly to Facebook from a favorite content management system (CMS).Without ever leaving a CMS like WordPress, Facebook is letting publishers push content directly to Facebook. It has also released the documentation to make that possible (spoiler: it’s a bunch of HTML5). Source: […]

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Everything Apple announced at its September 2015 event

September 10, 2015 By wildeng

A couple hundred hints later, Apple has finally revealed what Siri had up her sleeves… along with a slew of other announcements.Here’s a quick recap of everything you need to know from today’s keynote. As always, click through to the full articles for more details. Source: Everything Apple announced at its September 2015 event

Programming

How to check system endianness using Ruby

July 2, 2015 By wildeng

Check system endianness using Ruby Hello folks, today I’d like to share with you a simple way to check the endianness of your system using Ruby and it’s based on the “pack” method in Ruby’s Array; pack simply represents the content of an array in a binary sequence according to a directive given to it as […]

Programming

Testing a Rails application

May 25, 2015 By wildeng

Testing a Rails application A personal approach Testing a Rails application is often seen as complicated task and, when I started working with Ruby on Rails, I didn’t have a lot of experience with TDD (just a little bit using Java in another company, but that was not real TDD because first functions where developed […]

General

Just-released WordPress 0day makes it easy to hijack millions of websites [Updated]

April 27, 2015 By wildeng

Read this article from Arstechnica: Exploit code lets unauthorized attackers gain administrative control. Source: Just-released WordPress 0day makes it easy to hijack millions of websites [Updated]