The Love Shack

It’s as though the Mozilla guys knew that Google was cooking up Chrome and wanted to make sure that Chrome didn’t steal all their glory. So about a week ago, they gave us Ubiquity. If you need to know why Ubiquity is cool, I’ll let their page do the talking. But, if you already think [...]

So, as of today, I have accepted an offer to work for The Man. Not The Man as in, “The Man is keeping us down”, but as in “You are The Man!”. Except, in this case, it’s more like The Company. Starting soon (hopefully Friday, if everything is ready to go) I’ll be [...]

Now that I’ve gotten over the initial hump of learning enough Ruby (on Rails) to get some productive work done, here’s my list of quite-possibly-essential tools for the job:

Ruby (and Rails, if you’re doing web stuff)
Ruby Interactive Reference – Currently v1.8 (ri1.8 package in Debian)
A good text editor. I prefer Emacs for heavy coding, vim [...]