How to enable NTFS write mode in Ubuntu 11.10

I have recently experienced a problem whereby I couldn’t write to any NTFS partition under Ubuntu 11.10. Given that many of you are probably experiencing the same thing, I thought I should share the solution that I found here. According to the discussion it appears that in Ubuntu 11.10, NTFS is available in read-only mode continue…

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Feb 2012
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Archive of old website

Today I was looking for some tutorials and stumbled upon an archive of the old Brainy Creatures website. In case you have been directed to this website and found an error on the link you were looking for, please visit this link http://web.archive.org/web/20090505184313/http://www.brainycreatures.org/default.asp, and you should find all the original articles I have published in the old site.

Regards,

Fidel.

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Oct 2011
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Importing CSV data into your Rails app

Sometimes I need a quick way to import data into my databases. For this, I usually use two formats: XML or CSV. In Ruby, you can easily manipulate the two formats using existing libraries. In the case of XML, you can use the concept of builders. As for CSV you have the built-in CSV library continue…

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Oct 2011
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Writing a small compiler with SableCC and Java

Introduction This article covers the implementation of a compiler using the SableCC framework and the Java programming language. The language we are going to implement is a subset of Pascal that we will call SmallPascal. This is a very small language that can be used as a calculator. In other words, the language supports the continue…

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Sep 2011
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Welcome!!!

Dear visitor, I have finally found the time to bring my site back up. I was initially implementing a website using Ruby on Rails, but later decided on using something that was already stable and flexible for my own site. I will start by bringing up all the tutorials that were found in the old continue…

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Sep 2011
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