March 2007
Amit Rathore: Perfect vs. Shipped
I overheard an amusing comment in my team-room the other day, I think it might have been Kris Kemper who said it - “Anyone who knows Ruby On Rails has a half-done personal project that’s going nowhere”. How true. I have at-least three. The thing is, in my mind I’m always envisioning these grand cathedrals, and even when I do start work on any one of them, I never seem to quite finish them. Or I...
Mar 31st
Shane Harvie: Thoughtworks is hiring ruby...
Thoughtworks is looking for a Ruby Specialist and Ruby Developers. In fact, we’re pretty much hiring for all positions at the moment (Java, .NET and and Buisness Analysts). Send me an email at sharvie@thoughtworks.com if you have any questions, and mention my blog if you decide to apply. (via hornbeck’s shared items in Google Reader)
Mar 29th
GettingStarted - DarcsWiki
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Mar 28th
Working with Darcs
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Mar 28th
Snitch
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Mar 28th
zwiki.org DarcsRepos
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Mar 28th
chris blogs: shift, reset and streams
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Mar 27th
Darcs - IMHO
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Mar 26th
Relevance: Rails Edge Notes
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Mar 23rd
Erlang the movie →
Mar 22nd
WatchWatch
Mar 22nd
trapexit
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Mar 21st
evang.eli.st Introducing...
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Mar 19th
WatchWatch
The Show will be missed.
Mar 17th
High-Performance Enterprise Instant Messaging...
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Mar 17th
MailActOn
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Mar 16th
Mar 15th
Dave Hoover: TextMate is my friend
I got a little thrill just now when I wanted to have a look at some changes I’ve made in one of our Rails projects and it occurred to me that I love TextMate’s diff view. I hadn’t tried this before so I typed it in and crossed my fingers… svn diff config/* | mate Which (and I shouldn’t be surprised by this) instantly popped up exactly what I wanted: (via...
Mar 15th
Mike Clark's Weblog
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Mar 15th
11 Ways to Optimize Your Mac's Performance
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Mar 15th
David: Rails 1.2.3: Compatible with Ruby 1.8.6...
While Rails Edge continues to move forward at a rapid clip, we’ve still had the time to make sure that Rails 1.2.x stays in the game. This release irons out the few wrinkles there was between Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 1.2.2. So now you can enjoy the latest Ruby with the latest Rails. Besides the 1.8.6 compatibility, we’ve included a few minor fixes. Nothing major. This should be a drop-in...
Mar 14th
Stop uploaded files getting ‘deleted’ with...
Here’s how to stop your site’s uploads or other static file directories disappering after doing a ‘cap deploy’ with Capistrano. Capistrano is actually behaving exactly as it should. The problem is that the ‘uploads’ directory isn’t being left behind in release purgatory while the other files happily move on up to the castle in the […] (via hornbeck’s shared items in Google Reader)
Mar 13th
Mar 13th
Britt: Recent Twitter Links
Wired: Twitter is Ruling SXSW “When you’re down at SXSWi zipping to and from different venues, what’s the best way to stay in touch with your friends? This year, it’s not phone, IM or email, it’s Twitter.” Niall Kennedy’s Netvibes Plugin Niall Kennedy writes a Twitter Netvibes widget! GeoTwitter: Google Maps Twitter Mashup What would a good web app be without a Google Maps...
Mar 12th
James Stewart: Extending acts_as_geocodable
After writing my review of acts_as_geocodable/graticule earlier in the week, I decided to go searching for geocoding services that might offer data for addresses outside of North America. One that I came across is at Local Search Maps. There’s an introductory blog entry here. The API is a little different in that it returns its data […] (via hornbeck’s shared items in Google Reader)
Mar 11th
David Seah : Emergent Task Planner 2007 Updates
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Mar 11th
Why being embarrassed is critical to the success...
Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn) was speaking at a Churchill event and said something that really resonated with me: ‘If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.’ Every entrepreneur and startup faces this question when launching a new product or service - when do we go live. And it’s not always an easy answer when one balances: time to market ...
Mar 11th
Ruby Videos →
Mar 10th
Trial By Fire Productivity - Base Tools and...
This post is part of the Trial By Fire Productivity series. The first thing that came apparent was the need to define my time. I had to do this in a way that was both flexible and clear. The only productivity/time management tools I kept are Google Calendar, my Miquelrius spiral grid notebook, and Thunderbird for email. So the first thing was to establish a process and pick some tools to track...
Mar 9th
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection :...
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Mar 7th
From Rubinius: Note from Evan
evan: by the way, lets set down some terminology [1:26pm] evan: it’s no longer allowed to say ‘the build is (horked|fucked|screwed)’ [1:26pm] evan: please use one of the following: [1:27pm] evan: 1) I’m unable to properly build the software [1:27pm] evan: 2) I’ve built the software and i’m getting an error running it [1:27pm] evan: that will help me a lot in...
Mar 7th
Active Reload—The web needs ninjas
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Mar 7th
“It’s probably true that hard work never killed anyone - but why take the...”
– Ronald Reagan
Mar 5th
Animation of a Samuel L. Jackson Pulp Fiction...
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Mar 3rd
WatchWatch
Mar 3rd
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Mar 3rd
Updating rubygems
> sudo gem update —system > sudo gem pristine —all 
Mar 2nd
Mar 2nd