Santana's Tech Notes

This release adds a new option for ensuring that resource titles are quoted. By the way, two transformations are done by default and are n...

It happened that puppet 3 didn't introduced anything that could disturb the monkey patching of the lexer :) just some weird change in th...

puppet-cleaner is a set of tools that helps you keep your manifests compliant with the style guide. Website:   https://github.com/santana/pu...

I'm currently a puppet master for thousands of servers, for which thousands of lines of puppet DSL code have been written, and keep bei...

My comments on this post: http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/06/developer-first-security/ Three are the sources for vulnerabilities: • badly...

The point of this release is to make it compatible with Ruby 1.9.3. It's no longer compatible with Ruby 1.8 which is about to lose suppo...

binpatch is a ports-like framework for building binary patches for OpenBSD. Thanks Mike Erdely (merdelly@) for contributing to this release....

Ruby Inside is carrying the news of Rails 1.2 Release Candidate being tagged by David Heinemeier Hansson. Some of the new features are ment...

There has been an exodus of Ruby developers recently, moving from Subversion to Git for SCM. Being a happy CVS user, I was curious about w...

Yesterday night Ruby/Informix 0.7.0 escaped from my hands, after a vacational sprint that allowed Ruby/Informix to get new and important cap...

I was waiting for the next release of Ruby on Rails to say this, but it's taking more time than I expected. Rails/Informix was already ...

Antonio Cangiano , a Software Engineer at IBM, recently posted in his blog an Essential guide to the Ruby driver for DB2 , which included so...

Some weeks ago, Akmal B. Chaudhri , Senior IT Specialist at IBM, completed a set of demos about working with Informix on Windows. In part 6...

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 ...