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Recommended Gems, Plugins and various notes on what’s hot in the ruby on...
Performance Optimization ———————— optimization doesn’t end with speeding up my Ruby code (or Rails itself). The performance of production application heavily depends on its environment – server...
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Key Features for Rails v2.2, Rails v2.3 and the upcoming Rails v3.0
Rails 2.2 new features of interest Ruby 1.9 and JRuby support Transactional Migrations that allow multi-step migrations to be rolled into a transaction. Memoization for caching methods for a request....
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The RSpec Book by David Chelimsky, Dave Astels, Zach Dennis, Aslak Hellesøy,...
I felt compelled to post this because this book is just great & I wanted to share it with anyone who is interested. If you are just getting into behavior driven development (BDD), RSpec or cucumber...
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Why I choose git over Perforce, SVN and other source control systems…
Here are the top reasons I am a git fan: price. Depending in the implementation choice, it can be free (as in free beer!). Using a service like github.com to facilitate in a centralized workflow is...
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Chinny Fight!
I neglected to feed my chinchillas for a day — then I fed them & was surprised to find myself in the midst of a …… CHINCHILLA FIGHT!!!!
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UltraEdit released for Linux!
I am writing this post because I am excited to announce that one of my favorite editors of all time, UltraEdit, has just been officially released for linux! UltraEdit is a commercial text editor for...
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/etc/hosts file is reverting to a previous state in OS X?!?
Problem: I make changes to my /etc/hosts file — but they don’t seem to “stick”. They take affect, but after some time (hours, a day) the changes I made are lost. Solution: When changing the /etc/hosts...
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New year, new house!
2009 was a great year for me. My wife had a baby which brings a whole new purpose to my life. It is indescribable. Ryley Jane McPherson, born on February 5th 2009. Ryley is now walking as of December...
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Why is git called git?
According to wikipedia: Linus Torvalds has quipped about the name “git“, which is British English slang for a stupid or unpleasant person:[3] “I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects...
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–@@@– showing up in development_structure.sql (plus a solution)
I recently wiped my laptop clean & upgraded to snow leopard (OS X v10.6). In doing so I had to reinstall all my apps including gems, libraries, drivers, frameworks, etc. One of my projects is a...
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