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Builder, indentation, and namespaces

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Builder is a neat piece of kit but, like most sane libraries, wasn’t designed around the brain-damage that is Business-dialect XML(chock full of custom namespaces and tags devoted solely to attributes).
Builder’s docs seem to imply that a namespaced tag always needs to be in block form:
xml.bqcm :UselessMetadata {|n| n”chimney”}, “flue”)
“I still want to send my [...]

it “should insert foot in mouth” do … end

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Last time, I was complaining about rSpec refusing to play nice with the TextMate plugin. I owe the team an apology(in the unlikelihood event of them actually reading the entry), as getting it working is a bit confusing.
On my systems, the TM plugin would insist that I had an ancient rails/rubygems version, and to try [...]

testing to irritation

Monday, March 31st, 2008

So after wasting spending a few days checking out other test frameworks for Ruby/Rails, I’ve come up with this:
Rspec:
The Textmate plugin is barely useable; it appears to have a completely different manner of loading files versus the standard spec command(placing a spec file next to its target and doing a simple ‘require’ worked for the [...]

sittin’ calm after pres butan

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Last Monday, the Rails pseudo-content-management-system that I’ve been working on for the past nine months went live at the Yakima Herald.com, replacing a 4-year old system that ezmobius designed as his first Rails project.
This one’s brand-spankin’ new: Rails 2.0 from the get-go, fairly proper REST(where possible), using a dedicated SQL database, adherence to clean design(again, [...]

“you keep on preaching the high road, and we’ll take the low road”

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

In the wake of the Intel-OLPC fallout, the chief designer of the OLPC technologies asked Groklaw about ideas for an open hardware project. Even better, it made me aware that OLPC itself is still an ongoing process, rather than being cut-n-dried.
To me, this tickles my inner-struggling-hardware-geek in a really good way. Not just in Jepson’s [...]

Io gathering speed

Monday, January 7th, 2008

_why had a neat post on Io today, showing off a cool introspection+meta trick that I wasn’t aware of. And since it’s _why, the Io mailing list has shown another flurry of activity, which I’m hoping will snowball into another group of fresh users, to eventually reach that goal of “1.0″..
Interestingly enough, Io was the [...]

:eno:

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

So, Zed spewed. Since I guess I’m now a Rails “professional”, I guess I’m supposed to have some sort of up-in-arms opinion.
I really couldn’t care less.
Once you pick up that Zed writes in a deliberately provocative manner, reminiscent of the SA Forums, the rant’s main points boil down to his personal experiences with consulting, and [...]

you are in a twisty little maze of developer packages, all alike

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

“Use Fink until it pisses you off, then switch to DarwinPorts. That’s what everyone else seems to do.” : from jwz’s blog.
“Indeed”, he said, as he executed “sudo rm -rf /sw” on his developer machine at work.
(That’s not to say MacPorts is a utopia free from stupid issues though, it just seems to guarantee more [...]

Shells at 30,000 Feet

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

One of the things I’ve noticed is that most OSX hints for setting up anything in *nix-land tell you to add path statements just to ~/.bash_profile, usually assuming that you’re working on your own machine. But if you’re ssh’ing to another OSX(or -nix based) and set up the path in the same way, this will [...]

protip: you see no protip here

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

I had bullet points for a Visual Studio rant after wrapping up the C# side-project that has consumed my summer, but this guy already said much of what I wanted to say.
About all I can add to it is a harumph at Microsoft documentation: yes, MSDN is obviously a force to be reckoned with(if you [...]