This is a quick heads-up! I have a blog post up on the Think Vitamin blog on installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on Mac OS X Lion. The instructions will also work on Snow Leopard (sorry Leopard users) and it walks through setting up gcc, homebrew, git, and mysql. It also uses RVM to install [...]
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db Bistro Burger Review
Taking a small break break from normal ruby and programming related posts, I reviewed what’s widely regarded as one of the best burgers in New York over on my friend’s Orlando food blog. Spoiler: it was really good (if the picture doesn’t do it justice, that is) but maybe not the best burger ever. Check [...]
CoffeeScript and Rails 3
After all of the debate with the news that CoffeeScript will be bundled in Rails 3.1, I made a new site: http://doihavetousecoffeescriptinrails.com/. If you’re looking for a real article on the subject, Peter Cooper has a great post on Ruby Inside summarizing Rails 3.1, CoffeeScript, jQuery, and SASS.
Employee Scheduling Software
I’ve been working on this for a while and finally think it’s good enough to release to the world. You can now sign up for my employee scheduling software. Scheduling is employee scheduling software that lets you manage your work schedules quickly and easily. It’s best suited for businesses that have employees that work something [...]
Automatically updating your IP with DNSimple
I’ve been using DNSimple for most a lot of my domain hosting lately. It’s a great service and I highly recommend checking them out for domain hosting. Recently I went out of town but wanted some way to be able to SSH home if I needed to. Luckily, DNSimple has a nice REST API that [...]
On The Internet
I launched a new podcast! On The Internet is a quick snippet of the latest news from the tech industry. It’s like Weekend Update from Saturday Night Live but for Tech news. I hope you enjoy it and find it funny.
Textmate Next and Previous Tab Keys
If you’ve just upgraded to Revision 1616 of Textmate, you may be wondering why your next and previous file tab keys stopped working. The author of Textmate recently changed the next and previous file tab key shortcuts to the universal mac application equivalents. Here it is in the release notes: [CHANGED] Change next/previous file tab [...]
The Changelog Joins The Genius Pool
I just posted this over on my redesigned company site but it’s awesome so I had to share it here too. The Changelog, an amazing development podcast, is now part of the Genius Pool Network. Check out the blog post on Twisted Mind, over on The Changelog, or post a job now.
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