So last night I was working on a project where I needed a specific version of a .net assembly that was installed somewhere on my system, but I could not locate it by a common search. Whenever I would open up C:\Windows\Assembly\ I could see the file and the multiple versions that I had installed. …

So like many people, I wanted the new iPhone 4S. Since the wife unit is on Sprint, and I’m on AT&T, we started looking at plans. Sprint offers a nicer family plan and lets her upgrade to a smartphone, while letting me have the iPhone. So we decided to make the switch, and do the pre-order. …

I was reading about x86 assembly, and stumbled upon the origin of the name “Pentium”. I never knew it was due to course disallowing the trademarking of the term “80586”. Tons of good info can be read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium

I was tinkering with a new rails application, using RSpec2 and Cucumber for my testing. I was able to run all my tests by typing: rake spec rake cucumber This worked perfectly, but every time I’d make a change, I’d have to run both commands. So I looked into the Guard gem, after watching …

I was recently signing up for about.me because it sounded like a neat little simple blurb about yourself. When trying to sign up, after entering my email address, and password, I was brought to a page asking for some basic info. However, I couldn’t figure out how to submit it. I was given this …

So I’m working along, writing my tests, and I run into an issue where my Cucumber test is failing. I go to check it out, and see why. This is what I see: I’ve slightly outlined the relevant data in yellow. I went back, and copy/pasted the data from the creation from my factories, to the …