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LRUG Logostrosity
In which we wonder what it is about the LRUG logo competition that seems to have brought out the child in our group, and why it bothers me a bit more than it should.
RubyFools Redux
In which we travel to Scandinavia for RubyFools, and spend a little time in hospital on the side.
Thanks, Feedburner
In which we figure out that the atom feed for interblah.net was borked.
I'm Such A Fool
Oh yeah - I'm speaking at Ruby Fools conferences in April!
Vanilla.rb
What's all this nonsense about Soup then, eh?
Shared hosting is alright
In which we consider why it might be that parts of the Rails community are so dismissive of the merit of shared hosting.
Tags: rails
Ruby and Leopard
In which we look at Ruby's recent elevation in prominence with regards to Mac OS X 10.5, codename Leopard, and in particular Apple's approach to open source.
Using Launchd to stop Quicksilver crash annoyance
In which your humble fabulist explores the use of Darke Tools such as Lingon to cause applications such as Quicksilver to LIVE FOREVER!
Adam Buxton Is Honestly My Best Friend
In which interblah.net becomes semi-delusional about one of its favourite comedian-wunderkinds.
Tags: stüffe
On the move
Now that I've been outed, I suppose I ought to post something here about my impending change of employment...
A Tale of Three Modules
In which a weird problem with testing and simply_helpful leads us down the rabbit hole to appreciate the way Ruby modules are included into classes, and how the ordering of such events can be important.
(This is a long one folks; sorry 'bout that)
The Dark Art of Rails Plugins
Thanks to everyone who came - slides are enclosed for those who didn't...
Two Ruby Quirks
I stumbled across two Ruby quirks that I'd never seen before. Can these perversions of syntax be put to good use? I hope so (cue evil laugh)!
Plugems enter the Rails addon fray
In which Plugems make their debut, and I ask a few questions about dependencies:
Here's the gist, as I see it. If we have a dependency with a Rails application, best practice tells us to insure that when our application is deployed, it always deployed with that specific set of code that we've been developing against. While declaring those versions in code, a-la RubyGems, is certainly possible, for the most part it's entirely unnecessary.
On Twitter
Everyone is on twitter these days, but does it all really mean anything? Is it useful? Is it really doing anything new? I'm not convinced...
Stikkit Dashboard Widget (Updated and Fixed!)
In which your humble fabulist recounts his first foray into the wonderful world of Dashcode, together with Stikkit, and what was finally produced.
Read on - if you dare...
Tags: stüffe
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