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How to Sign Out of the iTunes Store

Posted on January 25th, 2012 at 9:19 am. | Written by Gavin Miller

Below are the steps to sign out of the iTunes Store on your iOS device. Choose the Setting Application Touch … Continued

How to Create a Purposeful Blog Plan

Posted on January 19th, 2012 at 5:33 pm. | Written by Kevin Dubienski

Many of our clients have been asking for help in starting up their blog plans so what better way to … Continued

Response to Recovering From a Computer Science Education

Posted on January 16th, 2012 at 8:52 am. | Written by Gavin Miller

James Hague writes some great observations in his post Recovering From a Computer Science Education. Many of which I’ve had … Continued

Why it’s Important to Monitor Google Webmaster Tools

Posted on January 9th, 2012 at 4:50 pm. | Written by Gavin Miller

You can’t control what you can’t measure. That quote is a solid gold nugget. And is also one of the … Continued

SR&ED Tax Incentive Program

Posted on December 9th, 2011 at 8:30 am. | Written by Gavin Miller

On December 7th, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation on the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive … Continued

Ruby Constant Pre-Processing

Posted on November 25th, 2011 at 11:56 am. | Written by Gavin Miller

Phone numbers in Twilio’s API need to be formatted like this: +xxxxxxxxxx In code this can be difficult to read … Continued

Hook, Line, and Sinker – Getting Caught by Phishing Attacks

Posted on November 21st, 2011 at 4:48 pm. | Written by Gavin Miller

At RANDOMTYPE we run our clients through Rackspace for our hosting services. Rackspace has great support and a variety of … Continued

How to Make Gem Patches with Gem Edit

Posted on November 18th, 2011 at 1:37 pm. | Written by Gavin Miller

Here at RANDOMTYPE we use gollum as an internal wiki for keeping track of important things like server setup steps, … Continued

Listify

Posted on November 4th, 2011 at 1:42 pm. | Written by Gavin Miller

Working on our latest Sinatra project, I came across the need to turn an array of words into a list … Continued

The WordPress .htaccess File Explained

Posted on October 27th, 2011 at 10:33 am. | Written by Gavin Miller

As of WordPress 3.0 to create pretty permalinks you need to use the following .htaccess file: It’s easy to cargo … Continued

Installing rbenv Outside the $HOME Directory

Posted on October 5th, 2011 at 9:29 am. | Written by Gavin Miller

Recently, I went through the process of installing rbenv outside of my user directory (on a server to be specific.) … Continued

Other Blogs We Write On

Posted on September 28th, 2011 at 10:34 am. | Written by Gavin Miller

In addition to the writing here on the RANDOMTYPE blog, I’ve been doing writing for a couple of other websites, … Continued