Emacs 23.1 Released – No Longer Matters to Me
I tried, tried, and tried, but I just can’t make the jump to emacs. I just came to the realization that my fingers won’t let me do it. Therefore, rather than fighting, I now accepted the fact that I’m a vim dude. In fact, I gave up other editors such as Geany and Komodo.
I’m getting used to using NERDTree and in fact, prefer it over TextMate. However, I will not give up my TextMate for Rails development.
JRuby Success Stories and Ruby on Windows
I was wondering if there’s a list of JRuby deployments, and thanks to IRC, here’s a list.
http://kenai.com/projects/jruby/pages/SuccessStories
It’s also made clear to me that if you’re using Windows, it’s just better to go with JRuby and NetBeans combo. I tried out Cygwin and it’s a good solution, but personally, I’m not crazy about the whole thing. If you want to find out more on using Cygwin, Remi has a screencast that explains the whole thing. Here’s the link:
http://remi.org/2009/04/15/ruby-on-windows-cygwin-git-rvxt-and-more.html
Get A Mentor or Become One
It’s an interesting idea and still in beta.
Testing Tutorial
I’m extremely embarrassed by the fact that I’m still struggling with testing. As a recovering C programmer, I expect the compiler to do the work, but with Ruby, there’s no compiler. I also feel like I’m wasting time writing stupid and meaningless tests. Let’s face it, the tutorials on testing all suck, and yes, they include the ones you pay for. I don’t know about you, but I have yet to work on a blog and it’s hard to apply the concept on real-world setting.
Ok, enough with the rant.
Please pay a visit to http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2009/07/a-real-testing-example/. There is a second part to this tutorial, so make sure you read both parts.
Ruby Use Up 40% in North America
Here’s something I found interesting from eWeek. According to the article, market research company Evans Data did the study among developers in 2008.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Ruby-Use-Up-40-Percent-in-North-America-490287/
Scaling DB from Rails Envy
Yet another awesome screencast from Gregg Pollack. How does he find the time to do this?
http://www.railsenvy.com/2009/7/23/scaling-your-database
This Blog Moved to http://blog.rubyhead.com
It’s now live! Like I announced before, RubyHead.com will go through complete redesign and the blog portion of the site is now live at http://blog.rubyhead.com.
Next step for me will be putting up a redirect page until the design is done. Sorry about the inconvenience.
Rails 2.3.3
I found out the release of Rails 2.3.3 through DHH’s Tweet. So what’s new? As far as I can tell, it’s more of bug fixes and performance improvement release than the features. For me, I’m more excited about upcoming version 3.0. There’s really nothing much in this release and I don’t expect much buzz until 3.0 comes out.
Announcement – End of RubyHead.com as a Blog
In coming weeks, rubyhead.com will be converted to the company site rather than the blog. I will make the articles available at blog.rubyhead.com as soon as I finish setting up the server.
RubyHead will be offering technology management consulting (from a former CTO), Ruby and Rails development, and a program for startups. If you need to reach me, please email me at joon at this domain.
Cappuccino
It’s really amazing what you can do with JavaScript. Remember this post? Well, that’s using Cappuccino.
It’s well worth it for everyone to take a look at Cappuccino at http://www.cappuccino.org and take a look. There’s even a screencast series at http://cappuccinocasts.com as with Railscasts.
