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Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

topfunky — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:18:17 -0000

Emacs also has the cleanup-buffer command that not only deletes trailing whitespace but also formats your code nicely, including enforcing tabs or spaces (according to your configuration).

Or, try whitespace-mode to see trailing whitespace displayed in ugly colors.

Re: Heroku | Bringing Heroku to the East Coast

topfunky — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:46:08 -0000

I can verify that Blake's presence will be inspirational, entertaining, and enlightening. Send a request now before someone else gets him first!

Re: http://www.foysavas.com/blog/2008/12/25/lets-be-clear-the-rails-monoculture-is-over.html

Ramazist — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:11:54 -0000

I don't understand why so many Rubyists ignore Ramaze.

Re: http://www.foysavas.com/blog/2008/12/25/lets-be-clear-the-rails-monoculture-is-over.html

Matt Aimonetti — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:45:34 -0000

So Merb got a stable API that we announce we will not break until 2.0 which is now replaced by Rails 3.0

The merge doesn't really change that aspect of things, however having a more modular version of Rails will allow developers to focus on different aspects of the framework and experiment.

- Matt

Re: http://www.foysavas.com/blog/2008/12/25/lets-be-clear-the-rails-monoculture-is-over.html

topfunky — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:17:33 -0000

My question (which can be answered only by time) is: How will this effect the dialog within the Ruby community about how web frameworks should be built?

Over the last 6 months Merb has been free to break backwards compatibility and try out many new ideas. Some of those ideas will now be part of Rails. ActiveRecord has also been influenced slightly by DataMapper.

Now that Merb is officially part of Rails, who will take up the "other side" of the conversation? Smaller frameworks such as Sinatra never tried to do all of what Rails does.

Re: Webslingers' Journal - Okay, so Rails really is getting easier to deploy....

trey — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:19:12 -0000

Okay, following the example here, this is pretty much exactly as easy with Django as it is with Rails. I wonder why I haven't heard more about this?

Re: Webslingers' Journal - Okay, so Rails really is getting easier to deploy....

trey — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:28:52 -0000

I have heard something about using Passenger / WSGI with Django. I'll have to look into that.

Re: Webslingers' Journal - Okay, so Rails really is getting easier to deploy....

topfunky — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:34:13 -0000

Passenger does WSGI, too. Maybe it would work with Django out of the box?

Re: Outside the Firewall - Bought the PeepCode screencast for Rspec, grabbing...

stevenbshaffer — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:01:58 -0000

Popcorn would be great! Sprinkle the carmel seasoning on it and I'm good to
go. Love Peepcode.

Re: My dream videocam - Lars Pind

topfunky — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:43:12 -0000

I just bought a Panasonic TZ5 for taking videos of my son (US$200). The video is great (HD) but the audio quality is horrible.

I think that's the hardest thing to get right...most portable video cameras don't have a quality microphone or an external audio input.

Re: Outside the Firewall - Bought the PeepCode screencast for Rspec, grabbing...

topfunky — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:07:12 -0000

Thanks for supporting PeepCode. Maybe I should offer a screencast+popcorn promotion!

Re: Humanscale Freedom

jaikoo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:23:16 -0000

Glad to see I'm in great company:)

Re: Humanscale Freedom

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:51:33 -0000

A great chair! I've used one for about a year.

Re: Want To Learn About Rails 2.2? Get The Envycast and PDF

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:58:07 -0000

Thanks for the props! I'm glad you find the PeepCode PDF layout to be non-boring.

Re: Video blogging is hard work - Lars Pind

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:35:28 -0000

I've used AppleScript and Ruby to wire together my release process. If you're doing it several times a week, it quickly becomes worthwhile to spend a few days to write some scripts or possibly hire someone to do it.

There are many apps that automate this process for podcasts (I use Ubercaster), but video isn't as well served.

A small tip...the Levelator app from Conversations Network will do an acceptable job at equalizing volume levels and involves only a drag and drop.

Re: PeepCode - Even their PDF books are awesome

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:21:43 -0000

Thanks for the props! I'm glad you have found PeepCode useful.

We just added an assistant and an editor and hope to publish quality content even more frequently.

Re: Rails Shared Hosting

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:25:27 -0000

I totally agree that many people start with shared hosts. I did a few years ago, and I had many headaches trying to deploy Rails at Dreamhost. Once I finally got it figured out, it was time to move on to a VPS and I haven't looked back (although I still host the Ruby on Rails Podcast site on Dreamhost shared hosting).

But I think you have also missed one of the main features of Rails...the development environment and local webserver.

People who want to learn Rails don't even need to pay $5/month. They can pay $0 by learning how to use it on their local machine. Granted, this doesn't get them a publicly accessible webserver, but it's enough to develop an application and find out if it's worth paying $10-20/month to deploy.

When I started web development with Perl in 1997, I had to compile Apache, figure out how to edit configuration files, and stumble through arcane (or absent) error messages. Because of that, I became pretty confident in configuring Apache, but I wouldn't have needed to learn that if I had something like the Mac OS X Locomotive app for Rails. You download it, hit the Go button, and you're running a local development webserver with Rails.

If you like the way it works, then you can pursue other options for making it available on the Internet.