Entries from October 2007

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon Fast

Everyone is excited that Ubuntu 7.10 is finally out. (Have a look at the new feature tour here.) But the servers are getting hammered, so most people are waiting on the upgrade (voluntarily or otherwise). No need to wait! The more people who download from Bittorent, the faster your speeds! Grab it while it’s hot! [...]

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Friday, October 5th, 2007

Reading An Excel File With Ruby

This tutorial will cover how to read (or parse) an excel file with ruby. I had to write a script to unpivot some data for a co-worker that saved him hours of time, and I got to write a ruby script, so it was a win-win. Here’s how you can do the same thing. Bookmark [...]

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