Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How rake turned me into an alcoholic) Rake can be used to do automated tasks with dependencies. So, for example rake alcoholic:getsmashed would execute the buyvodka dependency, first. [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
links for 2008-04-27
Git User’s Manual (for version 1.5.3 or newer) A must-read for anyone using git. Git’s appeal really does seem to extend beyond just source-code management; I’d recommend it for writers who want to manage a history [...]
links for 2008-04-26
Laguna - Steven Frank’s blogging thing An excellent stupid-simple blogging application written in PHP5, it basically takes any markdown formatted textfiles in a certain directory and posts them as a blog. [...]
links for 2008-04-25
RubyCocoa Resources RubyCocoa is a framework for 10.5 that lets you build full-fledged Cocoa GUI applications with ruby. (tags: leopard dev cocoa software ruby howto reference) [...]
links for 2008-04-24
Restful Authentication with all the bells and whistles (updated 2/21) - Rails Forum - Ruby on Rails Help and Discussion Forum (tags: @toread rails plugins runner_project) [...]
Pure, Unadulturated Awesome
Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.
This piece inspired the login illustration that vimeo commissioned from me for their redesign earlier this year; it is still in use throughout the site. The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a [...]
links for 2008-04-23
code [dot] leadmediapartners.com - RubyAMP A set of tools for TextMate and Ruby. (tags: ruby plugins textmate) [...]
Sitting on the porch
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Sitting on the porch, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
With the dot grid book and a stack of index [...]
Migration
I’ve received my “golden ticket” that lets me migrate from an old and crumbling TextDrive BSD server to a Joyent Accelerator.
Hence, many things that have been put off (like fixing the horribly broken blog and website) will happen. And everything will break for a while. Sorry about that. It’ll be better when everything is over [...]
links for 2008-04-22
git-osx-installer - Google Code OSX installer for git, the peer to peer source version maintenance tool (tags: git leopard mac software subversion dev tools rails runner_project @installonmymac) [...]
