Everything you wanted to know about Ruby.NET
Recently Wayne Kelly spoke at the Brisbane Ruby and Rails Brigade about Ruby.NET (code repository). We figured he was some authority figure on the topic, as he wrote it, together with some other...
View ArticleFind objects in IRB directly from browser URLs
A long time ago, I tired of going into the irb/console and finding objects/models using the traditional ActiveRecord command Person.find(15) and now I’m sitting pretty: I can paste in URLs to fetch...
View ArticleRails 2.0 TextMate bundle – Tasty Tidbit – respond_to and view navigation
The new release of the Rails TextMate bundle is coming soon. Its guaranteed to be shiny, sparkly and will fit in with any home or office decor. More importantly, it will be upgraded for Rails 2.0....
View ArticleGitHub and TextMate Unite
I wanted to go from a source file to the equivalent file on github. I wanted a selection of lines in TextMate editor to also be selected when I was taken to github.com. I wanted to cut back on my...
View ArticleHow to yell at people with GitHub from TextMate
Sometimes when you are perusing code you ask the question: why the hell is that there? or why does this even work? Now you can instantly navigate from that erroneous line to the git commit where it was...
View ArticleUsing Ruby within TextMate snippets and commands
I didn’t know you could run Ruby within TextMate snippets. As a consequence, a lot of the TextMate bundles I work on either have simplistic Snippets or the advanced code is run via Commands with code...
View ArticleUnit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby: rbiphonetest
Everything to love about Ruby: the concise, powerful language; the sexy testing frameworks; and finally, the people. Everything to love about Objective-C: hmmm; well…; and finally, its the only...
View ArticleChocTop – packaging and deployment of Cocoa applications
I’m getting close to releasing a new Cocoa application, CommitChat, a sexy interface to having conversations for each commit in each watched project in GitHub. It was time to start thinking about...
View ArticleFirst 5 Minutes of Stand Up Comedy
I thought you might be interested to see the fruits of my new hobby: stand up comedy. It should be running in “HD” for 20% more laughs. Video taken by Greg Fairbrother, my awesome Mocra Off Railers...
View ArticleShowcase of CoffeeScript – 2.5 mins for your next Dev Group meeting
If you are giving an “Introduction to CoffeeScript” talk at your local developer group in the future, I have a 2:30min video you might find exciting to show. CoffeeScript is so cool that I thought it...
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