Santana's Tech Notes

I have updated Rails/Informix to implement DECIMAL support and fix a pair of bugs that prevented the generation of db/schema.rb. I'm ha...

Almost a year has passed since my last post and a lot of things have happened. I didn't quit my job after all and that meant that I coul...

Ruby/Informix is almost full-featured and closer to 1.0.0. Don't hesitate to e-mail me if you have any suggestion, comment, criticism, ...

Finally, the ActiveRecord adapter for IBM Informix Dynamic Server is ready for its first release. I have tested it succesfully on Solaris 9...

This is a minor release after 0.2.0 that replaces calls to free() with xfree() to avoid crashes on Windows XP SP1. I missed the announce of ...

Finally!, after a month and a half of working on it, as my day job permits, Ruby/Informix is ready for its first release. The Informix adapt...

Since my last post about the Informix extension for Ruby , I have been slowly adding features and testing it succesfully with real work at ...

I've been very busy at work, solving many legacy problems. One of them is the amount of unmaintainable, undocumented and buggy C program...

binpatch was conceived as a mean to create binary patches on one system with the intention of applying them on as many hosts as we need. It...

While refactoring a braindead legacy application, I needed to separate employees' last names and first names that historically have been...

Learning Ruby has been a pleasant and rewardable experience. Since May of this year it became one of my most valuable assets for solving pr...

Maintaining other people's code is ok if it is well designed, with clear and up to date documentation. But if the code is badly designed...

Like many others recently, I've been touched by Ruby on Rails (RoR). It's indeed a nice framework to work with. I would talk about ...

The first release of binpatch is out. Three years have passed since the first time binpatch saw the light, building binary patches for OpenB...