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software development with some really amazing hair32 rack resources to get you started
My, what a nice rack you have. Rack is what Sinatra runs on, and it’s just a great interface for webservers. Here’s some brain food. 32 Rack Resources to Get You Started
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Surl, now with 100% more Ubiquity
My URL shortener, Surl, which is located here now has Ubiquity support. Hit the page, and if you have Ubiquity installed for Firefox, it will recognize the command and you can subscribe to it. In Ubiquity, you can then use ‘s.darkhax’ (which will complete sooner due to the fact that there aren’t many commands with a dot) to shorten URLs. It replaces the highlighted URL and copies to the clipboard. Check it out! Surl
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intoDNS, a DNS Tools replacement
intoDNS replaces DNS Tools, which used to be free, then became pay for, but now looks like it’s back to being free, but whatever. intoDNS provides a bunch of nice information, and seems quite useful. Check it out. intoDNS
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Make Eclipse not suck on Ubuntu 8.10
I don’t know if this is a problem on Jaunty anymore, but whatever. I had to do this on 8.10 to get Eclipse to actually run and function properly. In a word: printing. In more words: disable it. Who prints from Eclipse anyway? Add this as a vmarg in your eclipse.ini -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.disablePrinting The long story: When I was at school, my Eclipse instance just would not start. Well, scratch that. A blank workspace would start fine...
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POP Moved to Heroku
Adam Wiggins hooked me up with the Heroku stuff (and by hooked up, I mean I emailed Heroku support and he enabled the services for me), and so I moved my professional online presence to be hosted on Heroku. The URL is the same as before (http://www.darkhax.com), but now it should be just a bit snappier, and easier for me to deploy to. If you haven’t at least checked out Heroku by visiting the site, do so now.
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Scribes, an editor for gnome
I checked out Scribes this week, and I must say it has potential. It has a slick yet simple interface and look, and a few nice features. It has word completion and template support, so you can setup snippets, and tell the cursor to tab through sections, so for example, you can have a ruby snippet to make a do end block, which will create the code, put the cursor in the block variable section, then a tab puts you in the block so you can write t...
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Git on Windows
Speaking of git, you can get it on Windows, using msysgit. It works pretty well, in that I haven’t had any problems with it, except some minor line ending things. msysgitGetting Started with Git and GitHub on Windows – Kyle Cordes
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Worth watching. Twice. Linus on git
It’s an older talk, but it’s still awesome. If you’ve never heard of git before, check it out. Javascript on, you must have.
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Overview of MySQL engine
It’s for the 4.x version line, but whatever. Old but good. Javascript. On. Now.
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Daniel Huckstep is a software engineer (EIT) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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