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Re: Blog Title - Rails params - it is just a hash

delano — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:16:48 -0000

Good work! Ruby is a fun language to learn.

Re: From Book Oven to PressBooks, Hugh McGuire Shares His Startup Story

delano — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:39:04 -0000

Another great post. I'm really impressed with the content on NextMontreal.

Thanks for sharing the Bookoven/BitesizeEdits/Pressbooks story Hugh. It's cool of you to be so candid. Pressbooks is such a great name too btw. Especially for what you're doing. It really alludes to the next step in publishing.

Re: Making 2011 a BIG year

delano — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:29:26 -0000

It's true! We do live in good times. And no matter what direction you choose for 2011, remember to find ways to earnestly enjoy it. It's very difficult to compete with people who love what they're doing.

Re: Coder Profile – Delano Mandelbaum

delano — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:19:07 -0000

Thanks Phil. I try to go where the fun is!

Re: RubyPulse :: RubyPulse Episode 0.46 - Tryouts - Put your Ruby tests in comments. - Delano

delano — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:11:29 -0000

Great screencast! I added a link to it from the README:

http://github.com/delano/tr...

Re: Coder Profile – Delano Mandelbaum

delano — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:43:37 -0000

Thanks Patrick! I appreciate that.

Re: Welcome to posthumanity

delano — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:06:04 -0000

This is the first I've thought about this sort of thing. I'm interested to see where it goes.

Maybe it's something you're planning to explore but how does the "slower/better" thinking of the Long Now foundation fit in?

Re: Bringing Montreal Tech Watch Back to Life

delano — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:43:23 -0000

Same here! I owe a lot to Heri and MTW for getting me into the startup community when I got back to Montreal last summer. I'll help any way I can.

Re: The iPhone is the New Cigarette

delano — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:48:39 -0000

The iPhone does not fill one crucial criteria though: it doesn't provide an excuse for several people to have a private conversation away from a larger group.

Re: It’s neither the chicken, nor the egg – Thoughts on disrupting online dating business models

delano — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:08:19 -0000

There are other ways to identify connections between people. You could analyze their software / internet usage to build a profile of interests for example.

Wakoopa (http://wakoopa.com/) puts this to use for suggesting software, tools, and games that you may have not otherwise heard about. I imagine it would also be possible to (but likely very difficult) to match people based on similar and complimentary interests.

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Quack Attack: Making Your Code More Rubyish

delano — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:00:46 -0000

I entirely agree with this approach. And we can take it one more step: making Ruby look more like other languages. Last week I implemented the > and >> methods for a Ruby-based SSH wrapper which effectively makes the Ruby code look like a shell script. Here's an example:

script :username do
date > 'a/file/path'
ls :l >> 'a/file/path'
end

I plan to implement '|' soon to map STDOUT to STDIN, but I'm not sure I'll be able to implement '<' and '<<' unless there's a way to modify precedence in Ruby.

The project btw is called Rye: http://github.com/delano/rye and here's a working example of '>>':
http://github.com/solutious...

Re: Remote TextMate Development via SSH and Rsync

delano — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:08:40 -0000

The lack of emote file editing kept me from using TextMate at first. I used jEdit for years primarily for the SFTP plugin. I've since changed my workflow and now everything goes through git but there are still times when I wish I could do this from TextMate.

What is the significance of specifying SSH?