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Geek Skillz

http://www.geekskillz.com

A blog about the topics and skillz that make us geeks, and helping to find geek products, services and deals on-line.

Added on: Jul 2nd, 2007
Country: Canada
Language: English

Author: CRPG Geek
Listed in: Computer & Video Games Film
Tags: books programming movies Games geek discounts

Recent Posts

My Ruby on Rails 2.3 Rant

Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 13:44

Tags: Programming, Rants, Ruby on RailsAfter upgrading my MacBook to Snow Leopard (yay!), getting my Ruby on Rails development environment working again (which took many hours), I got ambitious and decided to update my current Rails app from 2.2.2 to...
Persuasive Whipping-Up Rhetoric

Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 14:41

Tags: Politics, Rants"So, let's talk instead about the flexibility of language, linguistic elasticity, if you like." "We are defined by our language, if you will." If our language defines us, then there's been a lot of people tinkering with definit...
Develop on Windows, Fail on Linux

Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 00:24

Tags: Programming, RantsPoor blog, how I have been neglecting you! Precious, rambling, delicious blog. Always patient, loyal, and expressful. In honour of my blog's title, I will post something that is somehow about geeky skillz that I have. No, th...
[Review] Spore

Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 00:41

Tags: Games, Rants, ReviewsIn my mind, I imagined that Spore would be the ultimate game for me. A game based on evolution? Brilliant! Battles between cellular organisms? Yes! Sandbox gameplay set in an entire galaxy? Oh please! Colonization, terrafor...
Rake db:migrate Fails on nil.info

Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 15:57

Tags: Programming, Ruby on RailsI'm posting this so that it can be Googled by others having the same/similar problem. In both Rails 1.2 and Rails 2.1 on Mac and Windows, I hit a problem in the ActiveRecord migration code which causes a database migr...
In Brazil, The UFO Is You!

Posted on Saturday May 31st, 2008 at 12:25

Tags: Science, UFOAs a huge sci-fi fan waiting for science fiction to become reality, the new photos of an "uncontacted" tribe in Brazil gave me chills. Deep inside the Amazonian rainforest, a tribe of people live, apparently uncontacted by any other...