Welcome to what seems like my tenth installment (actually, it’s the fourth) of showing you how I setup my development environment on a fresh OSX install. In this case, I’m actually getting a MacBook setup for a new employee with Snow Leopard.Over the years, I’ve evolved these following steps and they’ve helped our team...
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Earlier this evening, I accepted a pull-request for theme number 18, which is now included in Oh My Zsh. To celebrate, I’ve updated the themes wiki page with fresh screenshots.Here is a sampling of some of the themes that you can use out of the box with Oh My Zsh.Oh My Zsh is much...
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As mentioned in a recent article1, I’ve been diving deep into Google Analytics lately while working on a few client projects. We’re aiming to use much more of the features of Google Analytics and have been hitting some roadblocks with the development versus production application environments. Once you begin to dive into event tracking...
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It’s interesting working with clients who are passionate about URL structure.Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC – GitHub’s new binary data serialization and RPC protocol. They may have invented the ruby of RPC.
Devise: flexible authentication solution for Rails – Built on top of Warden. I’m not personally sold on pushing authentication down into Rack, but if...
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We’ve been doing some early (or late… if you’re a half-full kind of person) spring cleaning on some of our projects. One of the small projects, flash_message_conductor, which we released last year as a plugin is now a gem. We’ve been moving away from using plugins in favor of gems as we like locking...
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I’m getting too old for these late nights.Caliper – From Devver.net, a simple way to run metric_fu on any project with an accessible git repo.
cap-recipes – A collection of capistrano recipes for managing things like delayed job and whenever and passenger.
Gem Building is Defunct – At GitHub, anyhow. They’re throwing their weight behind Gemcutter.
The...
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Mustache (or GitHub repo) is a new templating library from Chris Wanstrath (a.k.a. defunkt of GitHub fame) that provides a way to render views in your chosen Ruby web framework. Influenced by ctemplate, Mustache helps to keep your MVC layers separate by actively preventing the inclusion of application logic in your views.
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If you’ve got a project with multiple git remotes, and you’d like to update both of them with a single operation, there’s an easy way to do it. Just edit your .git/config file to include a new target named “all”:url = git@github.com:ffmike/BigOldRailsTemplate.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*remote = origin
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Another quiet morning in the code farm.ActiveRecord Attribute Normalization – Plugin to do defensive data munging on the way into the database.
HTTP Scoop – Nicely done (not free) HTTP sniffer for OS X. Yeah, there’s free stuff you can wrestle with, but this one just worked.
Gource – Visualization software for git repositories.
Announcing the Devver...
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I can only imagine how much work I could get done without four kids to ferry around.Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs – If you don’t have the luxury of telling IE6 users to take a hike, this is a great collection of ways to deal with the problem.
GitHub...
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