Tim Miller

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Tim Miller

Upgrading All Currently Installed Ruby Gems

So, I’ve begun playing around with Ruby a bit. I’ve been curious to see what all the hype is around Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I installed Ruby prior to my tinkering because I wanted to follow along with some examples included in a backbone.js tutorial. I notices there have …

Evernote Premium for life!

If you enjoy staying organized as I do you also use Evernote… If you don’t use Evernote you should really give it a try. My number one use is clipping websites that I want to retain for offline viewing, you know, just in case the article vanishes from the web. …

How-To: Sign PowerShell Scripts

I’m compiling a quick and dirty how-to for signing PowerShell scripts, mainly for my own archives. If it helps any of you then all the better. You can find a full post on how to do it here. First you need to set the the execution policy accordingly. In this case we’ll use …

A .NET Developer Who Did The Unthinkable

That’s right folks, I did what most developers who use Microsoft as their main development platform would never do… I bought a brand new Early 2011 MacBook Pro. Let me provide a little back story to this purchase decision.  I used a Titanium PowerBook G4 back in college and love …

Fuel Cell Boxes to Power your home?

This is a wonderful alternative energy concept for individual home owners.  If they can get the price down the energy cost savings compared to buying energy from your l0cal utility company could be huge!  Especially if they can get these little “boxes of energy” down to a cost of $3000 …

Introduction

Dear Readers, I’ve created this blog as my first attempt to give something back to the development community. My hope is that I can provide useful information to the development community that comes directly out of my experiences as a software engineer. My primary focus is Microsoft .NET technologies, however, …