Have GNU, Will Travel.

Moving back to Blogger

jpb — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:59:00 +0000

I’m leaving these posts here so links don’t go dead, but all new posts are going to be back on the old blogger.com blog.

What with the new job, I haven’t had time for the care and feeding of blog software and it’s easier to just use blogger.

Mongrel 0.3.13.4 Released for Unix

jpb — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:36:19 +0000

Bug fixes. This release fixes the problem of Start, Restart, Stop, and Stats class names clashing with people’s Rails models.

Fink 0.25 released

jpb — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:03:56 +0000

Essentially, faster indexing, better cleanup, better dealing with build locks.

Read the details about it here.

Cool virtual desktop utility add-on

jpb — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:03:00 +0000

If you’re using VirtueDesktop to manage virtual desktops, there’s an add on for it called ShadowBook that will let you change desktops just by waving your hand over the left speaker of your MBP.

JumpCut

jpb — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:27:47 +0000

Utility of the day – JumpCut.

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.

Moving

jpb — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:02:07 +0000

I’m moving out to the left coast (San Francisco Bay Area) this week, so posting will be even more erratic than usual.

Convert Bootcamp partition to Parallels

jpb — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:43:19 +0000

Checklist of how to convert your Bootcamp Windows partition into a VM you can use in Parallels here.

Good article on producting high quality code

jpb — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:11:00 +0000

Ozone has an excellent list of good coding practices here. They’re not Rails specific, but they are good.

Build a Rails Engine

jpb — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:18:50 +0000

There’s a good tutorial on creating your own engines for rails at AlterThought.

TextMate footnote plugin

jpb — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:01:05 +0000

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.

In your plugins directory, install with:


svn export svn://syncid.textdriven.com/svn/opensource/textmate_footnotes/trunk textmate_footnotes