Monthly Archives: January 2007

readrails alias to open Textmate with the Rails gems source code

By olleolleolle | Published: 2007-01-31
Now that Rails 1.2 is out, and you switched to using the gems instead of Edge, you might find yourself having “a hard time” searching the Rails source code. Enter: a Bash alias to opening the Rails source in Textmate. # readrails - an alias to open Textmate with the Rails source from Gems # You need [...]
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Rubygems now features ‘Skip this gem’ in installation

By Olle Jonsson | Published: 2007-01-14
Ruby’s code-distribution mechanism Rubygems is being released in a new version real soon, and some small useful features are already in the RCs. Like “Skip this gem”, which makes it possible to skip a single update, but continue with the rest of the set of updates for your gems. Here is a demonstration of just [...]
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Intro to J language

By Olle Jonsson | Published: 2007-01-9
Via Dave, my favorite Dutch-speaking Australian Computer Scientist, I got wind of this fine J programming language introduction, written by our common acquaintance Cratylus. A short text, it goes directly into parsing how J looks, and then a bit about its operators. No speculation, just explanation. Thanks, C! And, Dave: I love the new handle-bars. [tags]jlanguage,programming[/tags]
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Upcoming game developer conference – Nordic Game Jam

By Olle Jonsson | Published: 2007-01-7
My dear L is now working at Diginet Øresund. This event might be of interest to you, dear reader, should you live in the Nordic countries: …Nordic Game Jam ‘07, which is hosted by Diginet Øresund (my new job – I’ll be managing the event). Thought you might be interested. Or maybe you know someone else [...]
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