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DELL currently offers Linux as an option for certain laptop and desktop models. Talk is that this service may be expanded to all models. This is a good thing, of course. Results of a recent survey by DELL show that more than 70% of over 100.000 respondents want to use Linux for home and office! What has been keeping companies like DELL away from this?

You’ve been there. You have been developing in your trunk for a while and at revision 127 you get the feeling you’ve done it all wrong! The production server is humming away at revision 123 and that’s where you want to start out again. But how can you start again from revision 123? Easy as this with Subversion

Do you have the need to create a list of roles a certain user belongs to? Enumerate the users attached to a company? All you want is a simple list with the names seperated by commas.

Users: John, Dick, Harry

With Ruby on Rails this is really easy. You probably have a collection of user objects. All you want is a list of names:

I’ve been reading a lot about startups this weekend. Here is a quick post with all the articles I came across this weekend and found worth mentioning:

1. Startupping TIP
2. How to start a startup
3. Ten rules for web startups
4. Business 2.0: How to build a bulletproof startup
5. The 18 Mistakes that kill Startups

We all have to go. Most of us once a day. Others have to do it more often. However, we can be much more productive while doing or daily duty at the toilet.

Besides the old “joke book” and “newspaper” what can you do on the toilet to kill the time? I’ve found 37 things that might be a good option for you next number 2.

This “Rails Tip Snippet” is one in a series of small blocks of code that will make your life developing Rails applications a bit easier.

This first snippet shows you how you can log informational message to your log file so you can track any important actions that happened. As an example you may want to log all user accounts that get deleted:

We’ve all been there. Your old trusty PC dies. First thing you do is buy a new one. After you’re done playing with all the new bells and whistles your old PC didn’t have, it’s time to thing what to do with the old fella.

Here are some tips!

Resources have been introduced in Rails 1.2. Basically this allows your application to expose content in different formats. Normal users with browsers get a nice HTML page while applications get easy to use XML code. Besides that Rails implements HTTP requests as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

All well, but how can you put this to your advantage when developing a Ruby on Rails application?

This article shows you how you can use Rails Resources as building blocks for your application.

There has been a lot of talk about making money with Google Adsense. There are claims of people earning over $10.000 every month by just putting a few ads up on their site.

I say they are amateurs! I’ll show you how to make a 6-figure earning within 10 days after you put up ads on your site! Just follow these easy steps and you can quit your day job after just ten days of work. It’ what I did.

Google is more than a search engine or an advertising company. Of course, it’s their core business, but Google has more to offer. In this article I’ll describe how you can put Google to work for your start-up (or existing business!). Oh, did I mention you can do all of this for free?

The most commonly known service Google provides besides search and advertising is Gmail. Nowadays Gmail is a common concept in the field of e-mail services. When the services started you got a 1Gb inbox. Today you can store up to around 2.8Gb of emails and Google Talk chat transcripts! Wouldn’t it be great to use this for you company for free?

Well you can! And a lot more!