About 4 or 5 months ago I purchased a new Macbook Pro. It’s been a nightmare since then:

1 - fan constantly running at a low but too audible level and spinning up to full far too frequently – I took it to a questionable Mac repair shop in Halifax...

This is a follow up to my previous post about integrating Logic with Maschine. I found a great video about an other, far better way of making this work, thought it would be useful to document in text form.

• Open Logic, and create a Software Instrument...

A bit off topic from my usual Ruby on Rails-related programming articles, but thought this might be useful for those in a similar predicament at any rate. I had to dig a fair bit through forum posts to find out how to successfully record midi notes...

I picked up on the the late 2011 MacBook Pro’s and was having terrible fan noise problems…. Took it into to an authorized Apple repair shop, they told me it checked out. Clearly it did’t because this thing was frequently running at full speed for no...

Open source college radio funding drive Ruby on Rails app. Includes a funding thermometer javascript widget that can be embedded on other sites to tracks pledges.

https://github.com/gordonbisnor/Funding-Drive

I am available for Ruby on Rails consulting...

WebFaction has a new Rail 3.1 installer out. I nevertheless hit a few obstacles in setting up a new app.

Ruby EE vs Ruby 1.9.2 Issues

First off, the installer is using the Ruby Enterprise Edition rather than 1.9.2 which I hadn’t planned on, so all...

WebFaction has a new Rail 3.1 installer out. I nevertheless hit a few obstacles in setting up a new app.

First off, the installer is using the Ruby Enterprise Edition rather than 1.9.2 which I hadn’t planned on, so all of the new hash syntax I was...

A recent update to Rails 2.3.11 broke our Uploadify setup. This is what finally solved the problem for me:

config/environment.rb (or for Redmine, this can go in config/additional_environment.rb):

config.middleware.insert_before("ActionController...

I recently attempted a migration from restful_authentication to Devise. I had a bit of a struggle with making old users able to login. It mentions that pepper and stretches are not used by default. It turns out the application I was converting had...

A Redmine Plugin that adds Uploadify to document uploads

https://github.com/gordonbisnor/Redmine-Uploadify-Documents

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