Author Archives: Nick Gorbikoff

Sane Ruby console on Windows or how to patch IRB to behave like *nix.

By Nick Gorbikoff | Published: November 9, 2009
This is a post for those poor souls who are like me stuck for whatever reasons developing in Ruby on a Windows system. I don’t know about other people, but I spend a big chunk of my development time in console, particularly in irb or rails console: trying things out & debugging. Do you want [...]
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MySQL: Selecting all records for the previous month.

By Nick Gorbikoff | Published: June 25, 2009
I had a to do a report for a client today that would get all the orders placed in the previous month and that report needs to run on the 5-th of the following month. For example, if today was 5th of March it would have to show all the orders for the month of [...]
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How to fix c00026c error in Windows 2000.

By Nick Gorbikoff | Published: February 10, 2009
WARNING: I make no promises that this will work for you. Do it at your own risk. You and you alone assume all resposnsibility. Just came across this error yesterday: when one of our Win2K systems was booting up it kept giving us Blue Screen of Death and the error read: ” c000026c . Can’t read [...]
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Why is it essential to know you subject matter, at least sometimes.

By Nick Gorbikoff | Published: February 8, 2009
I’m not a big fan of higher educaiton, actually I think it’s counter productive for some people. I’ve been arguing for a long time that a determined and eager person can get a better education on their own. Thankfully once in a while I come across some gems that prove my point entirely, thou in [...]
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How to read & write to a dbf database file from ruby.

By Nick Gorbikoff | Published: February 3, 2009
A little history. The company I work for has an old system that was written in house for a period of almost 20 years and it’s done in dBase. Once cool and allmighty, it’s not longer, dare we say, a system that is at the forefront of computer technology. It has a numerous problems, i.e. [...]
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Если бы языки програмирования были бы машинами.

By Nick Gorbikoff | Published: January 28, 2009
Below is my literary translation ( with some small changes and additions ) of a post on Mike Vanier’s website – If programming languages were cars. Translated and posted with author’s permission. Ниже – мой литературный перевод заметки на сайте Майкла Ваниера, с небольшими добавлениями и немного отсебятины. Переведено и напечатано с разрешения автора. Ada – [...]
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