Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-05-31 13:27:46 +0000
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 2007-05-31 12:59:01 +0000
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 2007-02-18 15:32:14 +0000
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 2007-02-03 22:32:35 +0000
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 2006-12-17 02:57:15 +0000
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 2006-12-06 21:42:05 +0000
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 2006-12-01 18:09:47 +0000
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 2006-11-24 19:05:52 +0000
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 2006-11-21 23:20:07 +0000
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!
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on 2006-11-15 14:04:28 +0000
One of the things that bugs me about Capistrano is the requirement that access to the remote subversion repository have the same path from the local machine and the remote machine. This is never the case in my experience.
I have been getting around it by setting the path to svn://localhost/... and running ssh locally to port forward the SVN port to the remote host. This sucks as I usually forget to run ssh in another window first.
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