Dr Nic
Ruby makes Rails, Javascript makes Ajax, Dr Nic makes Magic
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latest 15 posts
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1.3Migrating project websites to github pages with sake tasks, new websites with jekyll_generator
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5.4Future proofing your Ruby code. Ruby 1.9.1 is coming.
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6.7My RubyGems development tools and workflow
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7.4To WebKit or not to WebKit within your iPhone app?
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2.8iPhone dev podcast about fmdb-migration-manager and rbiphonetest
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5.5newgem 1.0.0 all thanks to Cucumber
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2.4TextMate easter egg: find bundle commands by key combo
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6.4My attempt at sake task management
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4.3Dr Nic for hire
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9.3Unit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby: rbiphonetest
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6.3What is *jour and why they are killer apps for RailsCamp08
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4.2Using Ruby within TextMate snippets and commands
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2.6Composite Primary Keys goes 1.0.0 for Rails 2.1
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3.6How to yell at people with GitHub from TextMate
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5.2GitHub and TextMate Unite
Sunday December 21st, 2008
1.3
Migrating project websites to github pages with sake tasks, new websites with jekyll_generator
From Dr Nic, 19 days ago,
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Its almost Christmas time and that means presents.
It also means that sometime between today and December 25th you need to go out and buy other people some presents because you haven’t done it yet.
But there’s someone else special in your life that deserves an Xmas gift this year. That special someone is your open source [...]
Thursday December 11th, 2008
5.4
Future proofing your Ruby code. Ruby 1.9.1 is coming.
From Dr Nic, 29 days ago,
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Bugger.
I’m a Ruby monogamist. I use the Ruby that comes with Leopard (ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [universal-darwin9.0]). Oh sure I’ve cheated on my Ruby a couple of times. It was just sex, I didn’t fall in love, I promise.
My machine has had various versions of jRuby, Rubinius and MacRuby installed at various times, [...]
Friday December 5th, 2008
6.7
My RubyGems development tools and workflow
From Dr Nic, 1 month ago,
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The Open Source Developers Conference (osdc) is a nifty conference - people from different language communities, who all do open source, come together in harmony. They simultaneously snigger at each other and then proceed to steal each others ideas when they aren’t looking.
Miscellaneous idea possibly worth stealing from Perl: when you install Perl modules from [...]
Monday November 10th, 2008
7.4
To WebKit or not to WebKit within your iPhone app?
From Dr Nic, 2 months ago,
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I know HTML. Its on my CV. Expert level. I also know CSS and a whole bunch of JavaScript. I can even do TDD with JavaScript.
And on the iPhone there is this nifty object called UIWebView. Otherwise known as WebKit. Otherwise known as an embedded browser in your iPhone app.
And if you want a sexily [...]
Monday November 3rd, 2008
2.8
iPhone dev podcast about fmdb-migration-manager and rbiphonetest
From Dr Nic, 2 months ago,
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Radio is where ugly people go. Podcasts is where ugly, niche people go. It doesn’t get much uglier and nicher than talking about iPhone dev; and the tale of one desperate man X on a desperate journey Y with his desperate sidekick Z, where:
X = Dr Nic
Y = iPhone development
Z = Ruby
From the Mobile Orchard [...]
Thursday October 30th, 2008
5.5
newgem 1.0.0 all thanks to Cucumber
From Dr Nic, 2 months ago,
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The New Gem Generator (newgem) was exciting, moderately revolutionary, and definitely helpful two years ago when I created it. Of late it seems to attract a chunk of criticism:
making a new gem, but newgem seems broken… hoe hoe
NewGem has the “hoe” virus. Much prefer Mr. Bones.
the newgem site is begging for someone to put the [...]
Wednesday October 8th, 2008
2.4
TextMate easter egg: find bundle commands by key combo
From Dr Nic, 3 months ago,
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I’ve dreamed of the ability to ask TextMate “what frigging bundle command/snippet is being activated by Ctrl+P or Shift+Ctrl+G?” I’ve silently pined for it. (Answer: params[:id] in Rails, and all the Git bundle commands, respectively).
Really I’m an idiot because the correct thing to do is to ask on ##textmate, “is there a way to …?” [...]
Tuesday August 19th, 2008
6.4
My attempt at sake task management
From Dr Nic, 4 months ago,
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I’ve used sake intermittently in my workflow. It competes against me writing helper/admin scripts in my ~/ruby/bin folder. Normally, executable Ruby scripts have won. But I think I have a new solution that could make sake a permanent winner for me.
Ruby scripts are easy to create and execute. You just open new file, change the [...]
Monday August 4th, 2008
4.3
Dr Nic for hire
From Dr Nic, 5 months ago,
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For the last few months I’ve been contracting to three different projects, and then recently two of them finished, with the third being an on-going project for the last two years which will be launched at DEMO in a months’ time.
So I’m excited to start looking for a new consulting project to work on. [...]
Thursday July 3rd, 2008
9.3
Unit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby: rbiphonetest
From Dr Nic, 6 months ago,
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Everything to love about Ruby: the concise, powerful language; the sexy testing frameworks; and finally, the people.
Everything to love about Objective-C: hmmm; well…; and finally, its the only high-level language you can use to write iPhone apps.
On iPhone 2.0, to arrive on the 11th of July, you cannot run RubyCocoa. But you can run it [...]
Wednesday June 18th, 2008
6.3
What is *jour and why they are killer apps for RailsCamp08
From Dr Nic, 6 months ago,
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RailsConf 2008 was a few weeks ago, and I didn’t go. I made babies instead. But if you ignore the whoohaa of MagLev and DHH’s Surplus talk, there was one piece of genuine, new awesomeness that came out of RailsConf. This awesomeness, plus Twitter created at least 6 new projects in the [...]
Wednesday June 11th, 2008
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Using Ruby within TextMate snippets and commands
From Dr Nic, 7 months ago,
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I didn’t know you could run Ruby within TextMate snippets. As a consequence, a lot of the TextMate bundles I work on either have simplistic Snippets or the advanced code is run via Commands with code pushed into explicit Ruby files in the Support folder.
But sometimes I just want a clever snippet. For example, I [...]
Friday June 6th, 2008
2.6
Composite Primary Keys goes 1.0.0 for Rails 2.1
From Dr Nic, 7 months ago,
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Two years ago Dave Thomas did a keynote at the first RailsConf in 2006 and outlined a few things missing in Rails. One was the seeming unnecessary un-DRYness of duplicating associations and validations in Active Record models since the same information is in the DB schema. Another was support for Composite Primary Keys on Active [...]
Wednesday May 28th, 2008
3.6
How to yell at people with GitHub from TextMate
From Dr Nic, 7 months ago,
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Sometimes when you are perusing code you ask the question: why the hell is that there? or why does this even work?
Now you can instantly navigate from that erroneous line to the git commit where it was added, and then using github’s commenting system add a full-flavoured remark about that person’s code. I’m not sure [...]
Monday May 26th, 2008
5.2
GitHub and TextMate Unite
From Dr Nic, 7 months ago,
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I wanted to go from a source file to the equivalent file on github. I wanted a selection of lines in TextMate editor to also be selected when I was taken to github.com. I wanted to cut back on my senseless killing of innocent pasties.
Finally, I wanted to make a nice little video to [...]