Posted by Jim Morris on Sat Jun 23 13:49:25 -0700 2007
In part 1 I outlined my project to implement snowdogsr.us a social networking site for snow dogs.
I am pleased to announce that version 1 of this site is up, however I had to make some trade-offs to get it up this far. I needed to prioritize my goals and just get the essentials implemented.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on Thu May 31 13:27:46 -0700 2007
I have been using JEdit more and more for my rails development, I have gone back and forth between it and Epsilon, however JEdit is starting to win out. I have upgraded to the latest pre version (4.3pre9).
I have modified a number of macros to do my bidding, and I dumped the Ruby Plugin because I kept running into things it did that I disliked, and it still seems a little buggy.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on Thu May 31 12:59:01 -0700 2007
I have started a new project for myself and a few friends, Snow Dogs R Us. This site just went live! (on 6/20/2007). It is a full blown Web2.0 (insert other buzz words here), social networking site for Snow Dogs and their (human) parents.
It is certainly a challenging project and taking much longer than I anticipated.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on Sun Feb 18 15:32:14 -0800 2007
I have updated the Capistrano local subversion module and added a perforce one.
The original article is here.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on Sat Feb 03 22:32:35 -0800 2007
The version of beagle available as a standard package with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, is horribly buggy and uses a lot of memory (2Gbytes on my machine).
I wanted to build the latest version of Beagle (0.2.15.1) on my system which is actually KUbuntu, and this required a lot of effort! I had to install a bunch of added support libraries for gtk which do not appear to be installed by default on KUbuntu. I downloaded the latest source from here.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on Sun Dec 17 02:57:15 -0800 2006
My current development system is Ubuntu 6.06 using an Athlon 2500+ Barton processor and an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard and 1GB of DRAM. It has been pretty stable, and relatively fast, but it is about 3 years old, and I like to upgrade when I can at least double my perceived performance. (ie I have to notice the difference, not just going on specs).
So I decided the latest hot system seems to be based on the Intel Core 2 Duo 6600, and I like a quiet system so I decided to build one spec'd out by Silent PC Review. The one in particular was SPCR Model One: Modern General Purpose PC.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on Wed Dec 06 21:42:05 -0800 2006
UPDATE 2007-06-09 This method has been deprecated in Cap 2.0.
UPDATE 2007-02-21 I have updated the files to correctly update revisions.log
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on Fri Dec 01 18:09:47 -0800 2006
I've just started a new RoR project and thought I'd try out HAML for the views instead of rhtml.
Seeing as I just switched to JEdit, I looked for a HAML language mode, and to my surprise no one had done one yet.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on Fri Nov 24 19:05:52 -0800 2006
I imported the rest of the Textmate ruby and rails snippets I had to combine them into the one ruby file though.
I have added about 80 new ones to the existing ones by Scott Becker that I found here
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on Tue Nov 21 23:20:07 -0800 2006
OK after expounding on how much I like Epsilon as an editor, I finally hit a wall with it. I wanted tabs of the currently open files, and it simply does not provide that facility yet. (I know all modern editors do!). On X11 (IE Linux and OS/X) Epsilon is not really a graphical app, it does open an X11 window, but within it most dialogs and lists (like buffer lists etc) are text, a little like a curses app. The advantage is it opens really fast, and loads huge files pretty fast. The downside is you don't get all those nice windowing facilities like movable pop-up windows, dialogs, trees and tabs!
So after hearing so much about JEdit, I bit the bullet and gave it a whirl. Following the instructions from a number of blogs (too numerous to mention) I installed it on my KUbuntu Linux box, with all the plugins people recommend, and of course the Ruby plugin and SupperAbbrevs (The beta version), so I have my snippets!
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