Great talk from Joel Spolsky at last year’s RailsConf. Can you turn Javascript on?
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Found this in my RSS feeds today. Awesome. Rock out! But only with Javascript!
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Emacs and termcap
I’ve had this problem before, but never wrote down how I fixed it. emacs would whine about not being able to open a termcap database file, and wouldn’t start on the console. The X version worked fine, but using the -nw option resulted it in dying. The fix! infocmp -C rxvt-unicode | sudo tee /etc/termcap If you strace emacs when you start it, you’ll see it tries to open that file, which doesn’t exist on Ubuntu by default. I tried everything els...
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TurnKey Linux
I discovered TurnKey Linux while I was running around on the web, and found it quite interesting. From the site: TurnKey Linux is a new open source project that aims to develop high quality software appliances that are easy to use, easy to deploy, and free. The appliances are based on Ubuntu 8.04.2 which is an LTS release, so updates are supported until sometime in 2011. They even provide a base setup of either plain JeOS or the the basic st...
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The Dell E521 hates me
So today I started my new job. There was much rejoicing. Mainly by my father, whose bank account I slowly siphoned away whilst at university. Being a software engineer (member-in-training), I work on a computer. This computer happened to be a Dell E521. Not a top end machine, but for what I was going to be doing it was plenty of machine. I could do with it what I wanted I was told; awesome. I’m now the first person at CodeBaby to be running Ub...
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Code Project Add-In for Visual Studio 2008
Code Project is a great resource for developers. I use it, have projects bookmarked, read the newsletter, and got the T-shirt (okay that’s a lie…just the underwear). This makes it even better. You can search Code Project by doing little more than highlighting or copy/pasting code, typing in a few words, and blamo!, there you have it. it uses Live Search for MSDN and the intertubes, which I’m not overly keen on, but if I want to really search m...
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.NET Line Count
I found this slick little app a few years ago, and it looks like it’s still around. Count your VC# and VC++ lines, and it differentiates between code lines, blank lines, designer lines, etc, which is nice. The downside: it’s really only useful for VC# and VC++ projects, which is alright if that’s all you are working with. Check it out. C#, Visual Basic and C++ .NET Line Count Utility – The Code Project – .NET PS. You’ll note that I didn’t ment...
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Rake tutorial
Oh me, oh my. When I first posted about this, in June of 2007, my original post started with Ruby is sweet. I should use it more often. And now, on Monday, I get to start my new job playing with Rails all day long. Funny how things change. Regardless, the quality of this tutorial hasn’t changed, so here it is again. Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial
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Notepad++ for the win++
Who actually uses notepad anymore? Notepad++ is pretty much the bomb, so use it instead. .:: NOTEPAD++ ::.
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Daniel Huckstep is a software engineer (EIT) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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