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Warning — Spiritual and Computer

I have become aware of a threat to computers that is difficult to explain to most people. As I wrote an email to my personal contacts trying to explain enough so that they might take some preventative action, I realized that there is a spiritual parallel to computer security problems. I am going to describe the spiritual problem first, then the computer security threat. There is something you can do about each.

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Published in: Computers, Faith | on January 13th, 2008 | No Comments »

RoR – Import CSV file to table – dynamic

Satish Chauhan has a Ruby on Rails site that has a very helpful article on how to import a CSV file into a table. I took his code and have extended it. I offer it now to you.

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Published in: Computers | on November 17th, 2007 | No Comments »

A GTK List Box in Ruby

I’m an experienced programmer, but new to Ruby and GTK. I need a list box for a project, but the Ruby/Gnome2 package doesn’t have one. So, I wrote one. This widget is documented with RDoc. Its comments reflect that it was my learning experience with writing GTK widgets. Enjoy. A GTK List Box in Ruby

Published in: Computers | on October 9th, 2007 | No Comments »