Dennis's Corner of the Internet

At my recommendation, my company started using Campfire by the awesome guys at 37signals. In case you don't know what Campfire is yet, it's a site where groups of people can chat, upload files, share code and many other collaborative activities. I recommended Campfire

Have you ever installed the Exception Notification plugin in one of your Rails apps, just to get bombarded with E-Mails of the same error over and over again? It's happened to the best of us. Thankfully, people in the Rails community have been working

Well, it's been a lot of hard work over the last couple of months (which can explain my absence on this blog), but myself and the company I'm working for finally launched the Beta version of our site on the Internet! The is BarterQuest,

I posted this story on a non-technical message board I frequently visit, as a service for some of the users there who might not have a clue on how easy it is to retrieve data from a supposedly-formatted drive. I decided to pass it

This is obviously not my first time that I have shilled the PeepCode website. I truly think that for any Rails developer, this is one of the most invaluable tools for learning available anywhere. I've purchased many of their screencasts already, and once I

If there's one positive thing I can take out of having to ride the subway to work for one hour each way every single day, it's that I've been able to catch up on a lot of reading. I love to read a whole

When I left my previous job to come to New York City, I made sure to clean up as much as possible, leave as much documented as possible, and clear up things with those who would be replacing my normal duties. I not only

In the past couple of weeks, I've gotten incredibly addicted to Twitter, the micro-blogging, social-networking, chatting, or whatever you want to call it tool that's been a huge hit in the past year or so. I had my account for a while, but never

For some reason, I wasn't too much into podcasts until recently, when long trips in the subway made me find something constructive to do while traveling to work. So I've been downloading a ton of podcasts that have been out there for a while

I just read a post by Joan Planas Illas titled "Be proficient in one programming language". In this post, Joan gives some advice that developers should stick to one programming language, get really good at it, and make a career out of

Here in New York, I'm working at a start-up company that is a few months away from their initial launch. This is a refreshing change of pace from where I used to work. In my previous job, I was the sole programmer, but not

Just wanted to write a quick post this morning about something amusing I found. I was checking out my site's stats through Google Analytics (which is a great free service, by the way - I just wish they would make it a real-time stats

When I was in Puerto Rico, I started this blog because I thought that virtually all programmers out there had their own blog somewhere in cyberspace (or whatever people call the Internet nowadays). Since I was searching for a job, I thought this would

It's been more than a month since I've written anything here, but it's with good reason. This past January 28, I started working in New York City - with Ruby on Rails, nonetheless! I'm really, really excited for this new opportunity, since I spent

Well, well, even a week after Zed Shaw's infamous rant on the Ruby and Rails communities, all the talk generated by it continues. While it has died down enough, I feel that the repercussions of the rant are still going on. And I'll be

I was going to write a small post about Rails and its brand-spankin' new release, known at version 2.0. But in the time it took to write this, the Rails community not only released Rails 2.0, but also Rails 2.0.1

I've been meaning to write about the subject of Source Code Management for a while now. The reason for this is that I'm very surprised about the amount of software developers I personally know who don't use any type of Source Code Management tool

The past two weeks I've been totally separated from all of my learning and reading processes I've established to myself, and I felt terrible for doing that. It's not like I've been totally disconnected from everything. I've still read all my favorite programming-related blogs,

Note: Unfortunately, I had to take this site offline, due to its inactivity, and due to the fact that I have moved to New York City. I had plans for this site to be a starting point for me to start my own Ruby

This was a doozy of a week at my job. Well, given the low morale spread throughout the entire company, from the office to the manufacturing employees, it always seems to be bad enough. However, things got worse yesterday. While most, (I won't deny,