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Hacking someone’s gem with github and gemcutter
Ever used a rubygem, found a bug, and just wanted to quickly bust out the big guns and fix it quickly? The gem command doesn’t come packed with a way to find the original source repository for a gem....
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Dead simple JavaScript Unit Testing in Rails
Formats: Video/Screencast (410 Mb, torrent) | Video only (vimeo) Start downloading the torrent now, read this article 37 times and the video might be ready to watch. Writing tests are great for...
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Making a pretty Firefox Beta application icon
Here’s the problem: I install OS X Firefox 3.6b2 along side Firefox 3.5. They are both in my dock. Their icons are the same. Um, which is which? How about a sexy Firefox Beta icon to separate...
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Customized Google Forms
Google Forms are a great, free way to collect information from anyone, stored directly into a Google Spreadsheet, and then have Google notify you each time a form is submitted (optionally). The...
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Using CoffeeScript in Rails and even on Heroku
I’m pretty excited about CoffeeScript as a clean-syntax replacement for pure JavaScript. What is CoffeeScript? Imagine all the syntactical delights of Ruby and Haml for your JavaScript. You write in a...
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How to make a good home-made Open Source
Want to be the funniest person at the next hacker’s picnic? Point at a bottle of red ketchup with its lid next to it on the table and pronounce “Hey look, Open Source.” Be ready with follow-ups like...
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Showcase of CoffeeScript – 2.5 mins for your next Dev Group meeting
If you are giving an “Introduction to CoffeeScript” talk at your local developer group in the future, I have a 2:30min video you might find exciting to show. CoffeeScript is so cool that I thought it...
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Validate and Save your Ruby in TextMate – with secret Rubinus superpowers
In some TextMate bundles, if you save a file it will also validate the file and show any syntax errors in a tooltip. This is awesome. (e.g. JavaScript and CoffeeScript) So I added the same thing to my...
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Packaging TextMate bundles in OS X DMGs
Last week Engine Yard released a CLI for their Engine Yard AppCloud. Delights such as: ey deploy ey rebuild ey logs ey ssh They simultaneously released a TextMate bundle to deploy, rebuild, view logs,...
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I’m interested to trial RedCar in my life, instead of TextMate. So I need RedCar to appear on my screen whenever I think “give me an editor”. I’ve had m bound to TextMate for years. I also have it set...
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