Today’s step is going to take a bit of a detour. One of the things that kills you when rebuilding a box is that you have to download dependencies every time from the internet. With big files this can be quite slow, and can keep you from working at all if you are offline. So [...]

Today’s step is going to take a bit of a detour. One of the things that kills you when rebuilding a box is that you have to download dependencies every time from the internet. With big files this can be quite slow, and can keep you from working at all if you are offline. So [...]

Spotify’s instructions for setting up on ubuntu no longer work on mint 15. So one easy way to install it is to just download the deb directly from their apt repository. Just choose the correct version out of this directory (32 or 64 bit): http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/

Spotify’s instructions for setting up on ubuntu no longer work on mint 15. So one easy way to install it is to just download the deb directly from their apt repository. Just choose the correct version out of this directory (32 or 64 bit): http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/

TL;DR: Over this series of articles I’m going to try and build up and develop for node.js in a re-usable continer (vm) without polluting my host machine with various versions of node.js, mongodb, etc. For a while I’ve been using vagrant and chef/puppet to develop in sandboxed environments without pulling dependency hell onto my host...

TL;DR: Over this series of articles I’m going to try and build up and develop for node.js in a re-usable continer (vm) without polluting my host machine with various versions of node.js, mongodb, etc. For a while I’ve been using vagrant and chef/puppet to develop in sandboxed environments without pulling dependency hell onto my host...

At my job I’m using git-p4 to work locally with some rails code in git and push to perforce. It’s working okay but one issue for me is that we require every commit to perforce to have a code review by someone, and we put the reviewer’s name at the bottom of each commit. For [...]

At my job I’m using git-p4 to work locally with some rails code in git and push to perforce. It’s working okay but one issue for me is that we require every commit to perforce to have a code review by someone, and we put the reviewer’s name at the bottom of each commit. For [...]

Since none of the examples that I could find on the internet of how to invalidate a cloudfront asset in ruby were correct, I decided to post my solution: require 'rubygems' # may not be needed require 'openssl' require 'digest/sha1' require 'net/https' require 'base64' class...

Since none of the examples that I could find on the internet of how to invalidate a cloudfront asset in ruby were correct, I decided to post my solution: require 'rubygems' # may not be needed require 'openssl' require 'digest/sha1' require 'net/https' require 'base64' class...

I just wanted to share what it took to draw a simple yellow triangle on a black background on the Pre. I hope it will give my Ruby friends and Haskell friends an aneurysm. To show this: I had to do this: //The headers #include <SDL/SDL.h> #include <SDL/SDL_opengles.h> //Screen attributes const int SCREEN_WIDTH = 480; const int...

I just wanted to share what it took to draw a simple yellow triangle on a black background on the Pre. I hope it will give my Ruby friends and Haskell friends an aneurysm. To show this: I had to do this: //The headers #include <SDL/SDL.h> #include <SDL/SDL_opengles.h> //Screen attributes const int SCREEN_WIDTH = 480; const int...

Recently I have been using cuke4duke on a java project (which I’ll discuss in a later article). We have jruby running from jruby-lib/jruby-complete.jar. Our gems are embedded in the project with the GEM_HOME/GEM_PATH being set to jruby-lib/gems. All of this is under source control. We don’t have jruby installed at all on the system,...

Recently I have been using cuke4duke on a java project (which I’ll discuss in a later article). We have jruby running from jruby-lib/jruby-complete.jar. Our gems are embedded in the project with the GEM_HOME/GEM_PATH being set to jruby-lib/gems. All of this is under source control. We don’t have jruby installed at all on the system,...

TDD for WebOS applications is still in its early stages, but the guys over at Pivotal Labs have made some great strides in the low level tooling. The Jasmine javascript testing framework provides a dom-less testing implementation which works well in the MVC environment of a WebOS application. Pivotal is also hard at work at Pockets [...]