Category: Programming

Ruby

Getting your feet wet with Ruby on Rails

This article doesn't teach you a lot about Ruby or Rails, but the nice part about it is that it shows you how easy it is to build web apps with Rails. I went through his tutorial last night and looked at my watch before and...

FirefoxProgramming

Ten minute guide to XULRunner

This page describes how to convert a XUL page or extension to a standalone XULRunner application: Ten minute guide to XULRunner...

ProgrammingRuby

An interesting article on scaling Ruby on Rails

Actually it's not even Rails-specific. Mostly it makes the point that a programming environment that improves programmer efficiency is more cost-effective than a programming environment that improves execution efficiency....

C++JavaProgramming

This is why C++ templates are evil

stlfilt helps, but it doesn't always save you from template hell. comaofferimagegeneratorlib.cpp:149: cannot convert `it.Mdbm::iterator::operator ->()-> pair::second' from type `Mdbm::data_type' to type `ImageData *' It's not...

DreamHostProgrammingRuby

DreamHost has added Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Cool! Just got an email from DreamHost today: Hey! This is just a note to let you know that we've now completed the suggestion: "Install all Ruby libraries and Ruby on Rails (including FastCGI extension)." from the category...

GtDProductivityProgramming

How to overcome “GeekBlock”

From SecretGeek Just as writers are prone to writer's block, programmers are prone to GeekBlock. Maybe we can't find the cause of a particular bug,or maybe we just can't stop surfing the web when we know there's things we should...

bashGeneralProgramming

“recd” on sourceforge

Brian took my cd bash function hack, made a whole bunch of improvements, and created a Sourceforge project for it: recd Sourceforge project...