Wow it's been quite a while since I last posted. In the meantime I've been working hard on RDT and RadRails at Aptana and the job has been great. I'm very lucky to have found a way to work on the open source projects I love full-time. In that vein I'd like to announce that we've released the 1.0 of Aptana. This release is important for a number...

Wow it's been quite a while since I last posted. In the meantime I've been working hard on RDT and RadRails at Aptana and the job has been great. I'm very lucky to have found a way to work on the open source projects I love full-time. In that vein I'd like to announce that we've released the 1.0 of Aptana. This release is important for a number...

I'm proud to announce today that Aptana has hired me to work full-time on RDT, RadRails and integrating that work with their existing Aptana IDE which focuses on CSS, HTML and Javascript. This announcement means that RDT will now have commercial backing and that you should see RDT and RadRails move forward at a much quicker pace than in the...

Dear Subaru Marketing: Hello again! It's been two weeks since we last spoke, and I miss you already. As I mentioned then, I appreciate your efforts to market your vehicles in my area and your attempts at regional advertisements. Since that time you've introduced a new ad referring to I-95. While I'm no expert on geography, I'm quite sure that...

I've been working on a website that uses tags internally. The acts_as_taggable plugin has been great, but it only takes care of the ActiveRecord portion of tagging. One of the pieces of functionality I needed was to create an autocompleter for users to enter a list of tags on a record. Below is a pure copy-paste dump of my implementation. I'm...

Dear Subaru Marketing: I appreciate your efforts to market your vehicles in my area; and I also appreciate your effort in creating regional specific advertisements - it lends a nice local feel to them. Bravo! However, you may want to actually make sure that the region you're airing the commercials within actually makes sense. There are other...

The biggest upcoming feature change for RDT 0.8.0 will be the addition of a Ruby Browsing Perspective. The Ruby Browsing Perspective will give you a quick overview of the available Types within a given Ruby project, and allow you to drill down into that Type's members - methods, constants and variables. There are some interesting challenges...

In an effort to try and get more people up and running with YARV/Ruby 2.0, here's a quick and dirty guide for building your own copy to play with. This guide will create a safe yarv-based ruby interpreter that won't blow away or override your normal ruby interpreter. If you already have an installation of ruby with rubygems installed, please...

I'm proud to announce today that Aptana has hired me to work full-time on RDT, RadRails and integrating that work with their existing Aptana IDE which focuses on CSS, HTML and Javascript. This announcement means that RDT will now have commercial backing and that you should see RDT and RadRails move forward at a much quicker pace than in the...

Kyle Shank of the RadRails team has mentioned that he and Matt are both working on a web startup. Looks like the priority of RadRails is lower for them - after all, RadRails doesn't make money. It's a shame that this sort of thing happens, but I can't say I'm all that surprised. I've been working on RDT for nearly 4 years now and I can...

Kyle Shank of the RadRails team has mentioned that he and Matt are both working on a web startup. Looks like the priority of RadRails is lower for them - after all, RadRails doesn't make money. It's a shame that this sort of thing happens, but I can't say I'm all that surprised. I've been working on RDT for nearly 4 years now and I can...

Dear Lazyweb: I would like to take an existing SVN repository of a project (like say, Typo), check out a tagged version, create local modifications and save the modified version in a local/home SVN repository(my blog). Later, I'd like to sync up the local version to a new tagged version of the original repository (Typo), handle any merges...

Dear Lazyweb: I would like to take an existing SVN repository of a project (like say, Typo), check out a tagged version, create local modifications and save the modified version in a local/home SVN repository(my blog). Later, I'd like to sync up the local version to a new tagged version of the original repository (Typo), handle any merges...

Wow. Steve Jobs has posted an open letter on Apple's website essentially calling for the big four music companies to abolish their restriction that music sold through iTunes be done with DRM. This combined with hints from Bill Gates that he'd love to see DRM dropped as well, may actually move the discussion to the right players - the music...

Wow. Steve Jobs has posted an open letter on Apple's website essentially calling for the big four music companies to abolish their restriction that music sold through iTunes be done with DRM. This combined with hints from Bill Gates that he'd love to see DRM dropped as well, may actually move the discussion to the right players - the music...