Have GNU, Will Travel. tag:digitalhominid.apesseekingknowledge.net,2005:Typo Typo 2007-01-06T04:45:59+00:00 jpb urn:uuid:41f8e92a-d2c7-43f9-83ff-45f4c59642ca 2007-01-05T08:59:00+00:00 2007-01-06T04:45:59+00:00 Moving back to Blogger <p>I&#8217;m leaving these posts here so links don&#8217;t go dead, but all new posts are going to be back on the old blogger.com <a href='http://digitalhominid.blogspot.com'>blog</a>.</p> <p>What with the new job, I haven&#8217;t had time for the care and feeding of blog software and it&#8217;s easier to just use blogger.</p> <p>I&#8217;m leaving these posts here so links don&#8217;t go dead, but all new posts are going to be back on the old blogger.com <a href='http://digitalhominid.blogspot.com'>blog</a>.</p> <p>What with the new job, I haven&#8217;t had time for the care and feeding of blog software and it&#8217;s easier to just use blogger.</p> jpb urn:uuid:36e1215a-520c-4d1c-8be6-cd9399d19773 2006-09-22T20:36:19+00:00 2006-09-22T20:36:19+00:00 Mongrel 0.3.13.4 Released for Unix <p>Bug fixes. This release fixes the problem of Start, Restart, Stop, and Stats class names clashing with people’s Rails models.</p> <p>Bug fixes. This release fixes the problem of Start, Restart, Stop, and Stats class names clashing with people’s Rails models.</p> jpb urn:uuid:0d1a554e-4fa6-42bd-ba8f-700b9c2dfbb3 2006-09-20T20:03:56+00:00 2006-09-20T20:03:56+00:00 Fink 0.25 released <p>Essentially, faster indexing, better cleanup, better dealing with build locks.</p> <p>Read the details about it <a href='http://www.racoonfink.com/archives/000703.html'>here</a>.</p> <p>Essentially, faster indexing, better cleanup, better dealing with build locks.</p> <p>Read the details about it <a href='http://www.racoonfink.com/archives/000703.html'>here</a>.</p> jpb urn:uuid:602d112e-c2ab-48d0-86df-e91e87770b10 2006-07-31T22:03:00+00:00 2006-08-01T02:00:10+00:00 Cool virtual desktop utility add-on <p>If you&#8217;re using <a href="http://www.virtuedesktops.info/">VirtueDesktop</a> to manage virtual desktops, there&#8217;s an add on for it called <a href="http://blog.medallia.com/2006/06/shadowbook.html">ShadowBook</a> that will let you change desktops just by waving your hand over the left speaker of your <span class="caps">MBP</span>.</p> <p>If you&#8217;re using <a href="http://www.virtuedesktops.info/">VirtueDesktop</a> to manage virtual desktops, there&#8217;s an add on for it called <a href="http://blog.medallia.com/2006/06/shadowbook.html">ShadowBook</a> that will let you change desktops just by waving your hand over the left speaker of your <span class="caps">MBP</span>.</p> jpb urn:uuid:83660220-45b4-4af3-9667-ba82cb7ed6e7 2006-07-20T16:27:47+00:00 2006-07-20T16:27:47+00:00 JumpCut <p>Utility of the day &#8211; <a href='http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/'>JumpCut</a>.</p> <p>Jumpcut gives you access to a configurable number of recent items that have been on your clipboard. It does one thing, and does it well.</p> <p>Utility of the day &#8211; <a href='http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/'>JumpCut</a>.</p> <p>Jumpcut gives you access to a configurable number of recent items that have been on your clipboard. It does one thing, and does it well.</p> jpb urn:uuid:1bd31061-3655-4e01-ac05-f4b4ade25648 2006-07-15T21:02:07+00:00 2006-07-15T21:02:07+00:00 Moving <p>I&#8217;m moving out to the left coast (San Francisco Bay Area) this week, so posting will be even more erratic than usual.</p> <p>I&#8217;m moving out to the left coast (San Francisco Bay Area) this week, so posting will be even more erratic than usual.</p> jpb urn:uuid:1451dc0f-0e39-4731-8bb6-ed53ed6ee62f 2006-07-15T13:43:19+00:00 2006-07-15T13:43:19+00:00 Convert Bootcamp partition to Parallels <p>Checklist of how to convert your Bootcamp Windows partition into a VM you can use in Parallels <a href='http://forum.parallels.com/thread3261.html'>here</a>.</p> <p>Checklist of how to convert your Bootcamp Windows partition into a VM you can use in Parallels <a href='http://forum.parallels.com/thread3261.html'>here</a>.</p> jpb urn:uuid:7015288e-0569-465c-83b2-ee56cd8c638f 2006-07-15T02:11:00+00:00 2006-07-15T02:12:49+00:00 Good article on producting high quality code <p>Ozone has an excellent list of good coding practices <a href='http://ozone.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/producing-and-maintaining-high-quality-code/'>here</a>. They&#8217;re not Rails specific, but they are good.</p> <p>Ozone has an excellent list of good coding practices <a href='http://ozone.wordpress.com/2006/04/26/producing-and-maintaining-high-quality-code/'>here</a>. They&#8217;re not Rails specific, but they are good.</p> jpb urn:uuid:640ad21e-a1e8-47df-ad38-c39f8bde5b67 2006-07-14T23:18:50+00:00 2006-07-14T23:18:50+00:00 Build a Rails Engine <p>There&#8217;s a good tutorial on creating your own engines for rails at <a href='http://alterlabs.com/ruby/how-to-build-a-ruby-on-rails-engine-in-depth-start-to-finish-tutorial/'>AlterThought</a>.</p> <p>There&#8217;s a good tutorial on creating your own engines for rails at <a href='http://alterlabs.com/ruby/how-to-build-a-ruby-on-rails-engine-in-depth-start-to-finish-tutorial/'>AlterThought</a>.</p> jpb urn:uuid:39342c4b-83d3-44f3-bf40-38caf77d3fe8 2006-07-11T13:01:05+00:00 2006-07-11T13:01:05+00:00 TextMate footnote plugin <p>This plugin adds clickable links to the Rails backtrace when an error occurs, and clickable “footnotes” to the bottom of each page (in development mode only) that open the view or controller for the current page in Textmate.</p> <p>In your plugins directory, install with:</p> <code> svn export svn://syncid.textdriven.com/svn/opensource/textmate_footnotes/trunk textmate_footnotes </code> <p>This plugin adds clickable links to the Rails backtrace when an error occurs, and clickable “footnotes” to the bottom of each page (in development mode only) that open the view or controller for the current page in Textmate.</p> <p>In your plugins directory, install with:</p> <code> svn export svn://syncid.textdriven.com/svn/opensource/textmate_footnotes/trunk textmate_footnotes </code>