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My Experience with Rogers call centers

Once again:
G1 is bricked. No alarm clock… No phone.. No sleep. It happened before, and they replaced my new phone with a refurbished one. Second time this happens in three months.
[rantmode]
Called rogers:
30 minutes wait on “”priority queue””. At 2AM that’s just 30 minutes wait. Yuppy!
30m on the phone with rogers staff that kept [...]

First developerWorks article : JSONx, Working with JSON on DB2 pureXML

My first developerWorks article is now live! Thank you Susan and Michael for working with me on this one!
Feel like taking a look? Visit http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-db2JSONpt1

Find the ATM closest to your home with pureXML

I was looking for a branch of ScotiaBank in Markham. Tried their website and – I don’t know if it’s down or if it’s just me – but couldn’t really find the information! In the bottom however I did notice this link saying Branch Locations and I decided to give it a try:

Now I had [...]

Uninstall DB2 in Linux

Describes how to install and un-install DB2 in Linux

JSON Grammar

Just found this JSON Grammar[1] on my daily searches. Also found a JSON validation tool[2] provided on by the json.org. Was quite surprised to find out that both do not include escaping the solidus character. First I thought maybe the images were old and not updated but after reading the RFC[3] I’m pretty sure this [...]

Mahna Mahna – and how to use a Ruby Rack Web-service to access DB2 pureXML

 
01′ Install Ruby and irb (if not installed in your current system)
  a)’ Add ruby\bin to PATH (might be necessary) 
02′ Download Ruby Gems  (if you haven’t before)
  a)’ Unzip Ruby Gems to <gems-dir>
  b)’ In <gems-dir>; run 
ruby setup.rb install
03′ Install Rack
gem install rack
04′ Install DB2 Express-C  (if no DB2 is available in your current system)
05′ Run 
 db2sampl -xml
06′ Create [...]

rubyonrails.org

Seems like someone forgot to renew the domain Fail blog material!

Ruby on Rails Website

dreamhost insanity day

Dreamhost new years sale rant

IBM DB2 Express-C em versão mac

DB2 is available for mac

RSA Encrypt & Decrypt in ruby

RSA Encrypt & Decrypt on Ruby