breaker of stuff, destroyer of things

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I spent a good bit of this summer working on websites for ApacheCon US 2007 and OS Summit Asia 2007 which will be in Atlanta and Hong Kong this fall. (You should attend!) There’s a whole long sad story […]

Ok figured i should make my list d’angelo’s new album, even if its just more leaks - the one track floating around right now is just amazing. the xperia android quad core prices drop even further full support for the hvr series in myth tv dual citizenship finally getting deep with as3 finish learning ruby the new halfgray iron man watching my fight dog brothers gathering maybe […]

Out of all the xml-rpc functions / classes etc out there i like this one the best. Why? its simple. I’ll post a rewrite/ extended version once i get to it. # Using the XML-RPC extension to format the XML package $request = xmlrpc_encode_request(”weblogUpdates.ping”, array(”Copenhagen Ruby Brigade”, “http://copenhagenrb.dk/”) ); # Using the cURL extension to send it off, # first […]

A group of us at DIF are getting into ruby / rails. I posted this in our forum, then realized it might help others. Here’s the book i’m currently reading / doing : http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Development-Rails-Pragmatic-Programmers/dp/0977616630/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4633763-6766336?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187036058&sr=8-1 I’m also reading the pickaxe : http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ruby-Pragmatic-Programmers-Second/dp/0974514055/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-4633763-6766336?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187036058&sr=8-2 and rails recipes : http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Recipes-Pragmatic-Programmers-Fowler/dp/0977616606/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4633763-6766336?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187036074&sr=8-1 I recommend anyone who hasn’t go through the Curtis Hibb ruby intro series […]

Came across this list today when looking for links to the curtis hibbs ruby / rails series http://noobonrails.blogspot.com/2005/11/rails-noob-to-rails-pro-in-17-sites-or.html

I just finished setting up gedit to emulate textpad for ruby development. after using the links below you should have the closest thing to textmate on unix first things first http://www.thaumatocracy.com/news/textpad-for-linux/ next rubymm.blogspot.com/2007/08/make-gedit-behave-roughly-like-textmate.html extra grigio.org has a good over view of plugins : http://grigio.org/textmate_gedit_few_steps also grab his gedit color scheme (near end of page)

came across this post while working on my gedit setup. it’s a post that lists (with links) the plugins needed to make vim work as a ruby / rail editor / dev tool http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=23274#p23274

I guess i should have just said : setup rails on feisty- lol. here’s a very through how to for setting up everything you need to run ruby and rails under ubuntu feisty http://www.urbanpuddle.com/articles/2007/05/09/install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-feisty-fawn

spice and flavors mint : stats peppers : mint plugins vanilla : forums jewelry ruby on rails: best web platform working out curl now someone just needs to make something useful called ice cream, stick shift, and diamonds. then i might finally sound cool when i talk about a weekend

ok about a year or so ago i started looking at ruby, but it wasn’t until this week that i actually had the time to dig even deeper. all i can say is WOW! I’m seriously tempted to lock myself in my apt and just do ruby for a few months (but then i’d eventually […]