Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong
A couple weeks ago, I took the plunge and switched to vim (MacVIM, to be precise). It wasn’t the first time I tried to make the switch, and I had pretty much written it off entirely. Why? Because the past few times I tried switching to vim, I took the advice of a master vim...
PeepOpen In Use
Some of you know (and the rest of you don’t care) that I spend my actual day job working on a largish JRuby on JRails project. (As an aside, I never get tired of jthrowing that extra j onto janything jthat I jcan. When I wrote the “Jython Essentials” book, I desperately wanted to call...
May 27, 2010: Random stuff today
I think we’re going to be even more random then usual today. Here goes: If you downloaded the epub version of Rails Test Prescriptins beta 3, then you may have noticed that the promised Cucumber chapter isn’t there. The PDF is fine, and I have no idea about the mobi version one way or another....
Double Shot #571
Today I think I shall be a performance expert.
Funding Thinking Sphinx – Pat Allen is looking for sponsorship to spend a month working on the Thinking Sphinx plugin. That’s a good cause.
Mu – Facebook Connect library written in JavaScript.
Introducing Amazon RDS – The Amazon Relational Database Service – Essentially, canned MySQL servers in...
Double Shot #550
At the end of the day, you have to ship code. Or sleep.
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL comparison – Reasonably fair, though it misses the fact that GUI tools for MySQL are generally better.
Software patents should be abolished – Amen.
script/nginx – Instructions for getting nginx + passenger running in your dev environment.
RubyMine 2.0 Beta Overview – Some...
Double Shot #534
I pulled the trigger and upgraded my main dev box to Snow Leopard. Took about 12 hours including some false starts, but all appears to be well.
Growl 1.2b2 – With Snow Leopard compatibility for GrowlMail.
Capistrano: Make sure there is something to deploy - Tip passed on by Matt Darby.
openid_engine – Rails engine wrapper around the...
Double Shot #484
Just to clarify for anyone who’s managed to get confused: I am not, after all, working on the Rails 3 In Action book. The project just ended up not being right for me.
MongoMapper, The Rad Mongo Wrapper – Ruby drivers for MongoDB.
scripty2 – Alpha release of the next-generation replacement for scriptaculo.us.
BlueTrip – Another CSS framework...
The future of FuzzyFinder-TextMate
Back in October I released a Vim extension for mimicking TextMate’s cmd-T file lookup feature. I use it heavily now, and it works great for me.
Sadly, the author of the FuzzyFinder Vim script, upon which my extension depends, keeps ch...
Coming home to Vim
Over three years ago, I was faced with a dilemma. I had recently switched to the Mac (from Linux) and was still using my text editor of choice (vim), but at the time, vim’s “integration” with OS X was pretty minimal (and that’s...
