Mutterings

My ActiveScaffold article, in Japanese! I had no idea they were going to do this.

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My co-worker and liege, Master of the Known Universe Whose Magnanimity Knows No Bounds, Lord Zex, showed me a neat trick with Firefox the other day. Go to Organize Bookmarks, select the bookmark for your mailbox and in the Keywords field, type “mail”. Close the dialog, hit Ctrl-L to highlight the address bar [...]

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When starting new with my Rails environment, I decided to try to use SQLite as my database rather than the more typical mysql or postgres. There’s no need for the latter as I just need a single user, embedded database to do dev and testing on. Since Locomotive ships with sqlite right in [...]

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Having lived with the MacBook Pro for two weeks now, there are a few things which need venting:

The machine’s design is incredibly clean compared to Windows laptops. There’s no stickers, unnecessary creases, etc. It looks like a solid block of aluminum except where there is a functional need to mar the surface. [...]

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It’s my article, at the top of the heap! I love the tag line “CRUD got you down?”
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/
The actual article:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-activescaffold/

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shame on you, fool me twice… uh, won’t get fooled again. Heh heh.
It looks like I spoke too soon regarding Ruby on OSX. It is even simpler than Windows by using Locomotive. Locomotive allows you to create an entire Ruby + Rails + DB “bundle” and have your Rails apps target a [...]

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I cannot believe how difficult it is, 2 years after it was released, to install Ruby on Mac OSX. There is no simple installer, there are no binaries, they actually recommend you go through a 10 step process to install a compiler, download the latest sources, and compile and install everything. What is [...]

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I’ve got a new idea for a small Web 2.0/Rails web app! I’m going to build the website over the next month or two, buy the domain and hosting package, set up the Google AdSense program (hey, it’s got to bring in a little money - hopefully enough to be self-sustaining) and start marketing [...]

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Garrett wrote me an email this morning:

Back to haunt you again! But thought you’d get a kick in knowing that
your old Appbar is still kicking and works just fine on Windows Vista
here. Not a glitch, cough or even hiccup!
You think Appbar will ever let you forget it?
It won’t let me [...]

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I love Perforce as an SCM system - it’s not as dead simple as SVN but it’s pretty simple to use once you understand what a clientspec is (in fact I wrote the Perforce SCM plugin for Maven 2.x).
I like cygwin - the installer is horrible but it works ok once you get past that.
The [...]

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