Monthly Archives: January 2007

readrails alias to open Textmate with the Rails gems source code

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

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

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

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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