http://blog.mikeadmire.com Business, Technology, and Software Development Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:23:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK, to get this out of the way.  I know, SOAP is lame and REST is cool.  However, there may still be times when you need to query data from a SOAP web service.  This article is an attempt to document the process of retrieving and working with that data.In ... http://blog.mikeadmire.com/2008/09/query-soap-service-using-ruby/ I guess this is what I get for doing most of my testing in Firefox. I created an aspx page to be opened in a javascript window.open to allow a customer to preview some rendered HTML. I used labels in the aspx page and then populated those with ... http://blog.mikeadmire.com/2008/09/ie-7-and-word-wrap/ I just installed ruby 1.8.7 on a Windows machine and when I started IRB: The fix: Go to http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm and download the binaries zip file. Unzip the file. Change directory to the new directory created ... http://blog.mikeadmire.com/2008/08/rubyexe-unable-to-locate-component-readlinedll/ I just went through the process of setting up a new Linux desktop for Rails development.  In an effort to keep it short and to the point, I've trimmed up some of the info that I found useful from wiki.rubyonrails.org.  This is just a basic development stack.  I plan to ... http://blog.mikeadmire.com/2008/08/ruby-on-rails-development-environment-on-ubuntu-linux-8041/ I've been a fan of Ubuntu Linux since I first started using it a few years ago.  One of the first things I do when building a new Ubuntu machine is set the default editor to Vim.  I have been using Vi for a long time and the keyboard shortcuts ... http://blog.mikeadmire.com/2008/08/how-to-change-the-default-editor-in-debian-and-ubuntu/