I’ve posted a few times about my lack of enthusiasm for Git and other distributed version control systems (DVCS). I never thought there was any point in it unless you were part of a large-scale and very geo-diverse set of developers. When its just a project with me and maybe a few others it seems [...]
Why did I never get this taught at university, college, school, work? I think it needs to be! Too often the user is blamed and condemned as the source of all the industry’s ills! 1. The user is always right. If there is a problem with the use of the system, the system is the [...]
I’ve spotted a great little Python module available at the Google Project hosting site. It enables you to parse English date and time information into Python date objects. Similar to the feature of many online calendars where you can say “2 days from now” and have it know what you mean. Get it here.
I read this blog post and thought it was a good idea. Having a list of what technologies, languages, etc you plan on learning for the year. I had one last year but forgot this time round. So I know it’s April but I thought I’d throw together my list: CodeIgniter Framework – A lightweight [...]
I didn’t manage to get into the first 10k people so I had to make do with the goodie bag (SDK) and be on my way for now. Form what I’m reading it looks incredible!!! Is anyone else realising how amazing this all is? It’s a playground!!!! A big Googlely playground for developers to play [...]
Lets skip the big comparisons here and get to brass tacks. Here’s the rapid review of Ajax frameworks: YUI -Stable and comprehensive but a little verbose. jQuery – Clean, fresh and perky but plenty of hacked, cruddy plugins to be wary of. Ext – Beautiful to look at but agonising to use. Prototype/Scriptaculous – Only [...]
Granted its a bit old but thought I’d throw this one into the air! Tenuous link, but Rails + Music = MOG. Similar to Last.fm but built using Ruby on Rails. What does that mean? Every self-respecting Ruby/Rails fan should have an account of course!
With all the clammering for free SVN hosting at the moment its easy to forget there are other services available. I wanted to try out Mercurial and Git since they recently became increasingly popular and with Rails switching to Git it just begged to be given a try. Well here’s a few free source hosting [...]
I don’t get involved anywhere near as much in the Ruby community as I probably should but I thought I’d put together a listing of the top Ruby forums I’ve come across in my time: The Original Ruby Forum OCS Ruby Forum UK Ruby Forum SitePoint Ruby Forum MySQL Ruby Forum Nabble Forum Rails Forum [...]
If you’ve seen my previous tutorial on using scRubyt to scour Yahoo Finance you may be interested in this. YahooFinance is a Ruby module built to much, much more. It can get varying level of Finance data for a given company. It happens to be the cornerstone of Grism – a desktop stock tracking system. [...]
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