Posted on December 7th, 2007 by Jeff
Those guys over at 37signals have done it again and given us a nice shiny present for Christmas: Rails 2.0! Head on over to the Ruby On Rails weblog for the full details. The big feature for me is the debugger… it’s back! It’s just a gem install ruby_debug away! I’ll be covering [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Jeff
I’ve been using Emacs as my editor of choice for many years now, long before it was officially released for DOS and Windows systems. I started with the OEmacs port after getting tired of an old editor called pmate. PMate was a TECO derivative that had four buffers but only one was backed by a [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2007 by Jeff
The three R’s for the new millennium. It’s the age of the unfinished project as fads come and go. Here, it’s no different. My interests are drifting towards the web and internet programming in general rather than desktop computing as they have been for so long. This blog has been neglected for quite some time. [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2006 by Jeff
One of the features present in VisEmacs.NET is that a user can edit their preferences right from the IDE’s “Options” dialog. In DevStudio, the user accessed the preferences from a command button on the toolbar; all that button did was open a normal dialog hosted by VisEmacs — nothing special there. Alas, VisualStudio is a [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2006 by Jeff
After yet another 5-day outage at my webhost it became very apparent that I needed a new home. After a few days of picking through all the very-much-alike promise-the-world-for-cheap hosting plans, I chose site5 for their package and their reputation. So far so good. Both the main site and this blog have been successfully migrated [...]
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