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• Michael Buffington: iGTD + Quicksilver + subversion

  Published: June 28, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Apple Macs Os X, Getting Things Done, Quicksilver, Unix And Cli, Productivity, Guests, Igtd, Michael Buffington, Ruby, Subverison

  at some point. Create some Ruby! Create a file called iGTD.rb in /usr/local/lib/ruby (or /opt/local/lib/ruby if you’re using the Macports version of Ruby like me). Write the following code: class IGtd def self.capture(string) i = IGtd.new i.push_to_igtd(string) puts string end def

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• Ruby On Rails Web Applications

  Published: February 19, 2007, 6:30 am

  Tags: Web Development, Ruby On Rails, Web Applications

  Ruby On Rails is becoming so popular today in the web development field. It is not surprising to see several web applications coming out on the web that is based on this technology. Ruby On Rails has been used for hundreds of applications around the world. I have compiled here the most prolific web applications that used this technology: Basecamp

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• Wooden cradle crammed with 2,000 diamond, ruby and emerald gems

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:47 am

  Tags: Prince Akishino, Ottoman Empire, Wooden Cradle, Treasures Of The Topkapi Palace, Emerald, Ruby, Diamond, Royal Ceremony

  about 2,000 gems of diamond, ruby, and emerald. The blingy wooden cradle is on display at the Treasures of the Topkapi Palace and the Magnificent Ottoman Dynasty exhibition in Tokyo. Other than the sparkling cradle, there are around 140 treasures from the residence of the Ottoman Empire on exhibit to celebrate the birth of Prince Hisahito on

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• Compiling Ruby 1.8.6 on Solaris Nevada (or OpenSolaris, or Solaris Express ) using Sun Studio 12

  Published: August 4, 2007, 6:55 am

  Tags: Ruby

  bash-3.00# pwd /export/ruby/ruby-1.8.6 bash-3.00# echo $PATH /usr/ccs/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin bash-3.00# ./configure --without-gcc checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 checking target system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11 [ . . . lots more output snipped . . .]

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• BBEdit 8.7 features code folding, clippings, Ruby support

  Published: August 7, 2007, 3:00 am

  Tags: Bbedit, Bbedit87, Clippings, Editing, Editor, Html, Ruby, Rubyonrails, Tools

  Preferences and support for Ruby, YAML and SQL is new as well.Also, "the Glossary" is now called "Clippings." The idea is that you can capture and re-use common bits of text - like a powerful, persistent Clipboard. And, because I know I can't be the only one who really enjoys freshening up my Dock, I'll point out that there's both a new

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• Ruby Screenshot of the Week #15: More Hints and Quick Fixes!

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:36 pm

  Tags: Ruby

  a blog entry entitled "Ruby Is Hard". In the blog entry he shows a short code snippet which does not do what you might think upon reading it. This immediately reminded me of a dog-eared page in my worn-out copy of "Programming Ruby", specifically page 167, in the "But It Doesn't Work" section. The book covers the same problem and

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• Wet game preview for Xbox 360 & PS3 from Sierra starring kick-ass new heroine Ruby

  Published: August 24, 2007, 6:26 am

  Tags: Videos, Interviews, News, Wet, Game, Videogame, Ps3, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Ruby, Sierra

  But oh so very cool. Ruby’s arms move and aim independently for split targeting, so she is always duel-wielding (read: maximum carnage). Weapons include dual pistols, dual crossbows, dual machine guns and even . . . dual shotguns! *insert shocked smiley* All weapons can be upgraded in multiple categories as well. Additionally, Ruby

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• Encode Videos with the HeyWatch API

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:38 am

  Tags: Video, Ruby

  If you’re a Ruby developer you they also give you this code at RubyForge. Speaking of which, we now have listed over 20 Ruby gems and code resources including wrappers for many of the major APIs.

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• Geezeo: Social Personal Finance Startup

  Published: September 4, 2007, 12:35 am

  Tags: Aggregator, Beta, Business, Cellular, Community, Finance, Geezeo, Mobile, Mobile Social Network, Mobile Wireless, Money, Money 2 0, Personalized, Resource, Ruby On Rails, Sms, Small Business, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Co

  Shawn Ward, Geezeo leverages Ruby on Rails to offer a clean and easy to use interface for managing your personal finance accounts. Geezeo currently handles bank accounts and credit card accounts, personal mortgages and auto loans - student loans and brokerage accounts coming very soon. This will allow Geezeo users to see and track finances across

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• Tobey Maguire marries!

  Published: September 4, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Celebrities, Divorce, Jennifer Meyer, Jennifermeyer, Marry, Nine Month Old, Ninemonthold, Raise Baby, Raiseababy, Ruby, Tobey Maguire, Tobeymaguire

  photo ops of adorable little Ruby. They offically got hitched in a "secret ceremony" in Hawaii. No word on whether Ruby participated, although I'm sure she'd have made an adorable flower baby with a lei. Normally when celebrities marry or divorce or whatever else it is they do I don't really pay attention. I know it seems like I do, but really,

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• Uncooperative irb on Solaris?

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:23 pm

  Tags: Ruby

  the latest stable release of Ruby 1.8.6 from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz. (3) Download GNU Readline from ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-5.2.tar.gz (4) prefix your path with /opt/SUNWspro/bin.  Ensure that /usr/sfw/bin is not in your path for the next step. (5) run ./configure in, make, and make install

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• New Demo Screencasts Available

  Published: September 7, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Ruby

  I show NetBeans and the Ruby support. The JavaOne Demo (9 minutes). This is roughly the same outline I followed for the demo in James Gosling's keynote at JavaOne this year. It's a demo which shows both Java and Ruby editing capabilities as I create some JPA entity classes in Java, and then proceed to access these from a

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• New NetBeans Ruby Videos and Articles

  Published: September 10, 2007, 4:38 pm

  Tags: Ruby

  two more videos on NetBeans Ruby, this time focusing on the Ruby editor: Code Completion at a Glance (2 minutes). This video shows several code completion scenarios for Ruby. Hints and Quick Fixes at a Glance (3.5 minutes). This video shows some of the quick fixes available for Ruby. Also recently published is Brian

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• Do programmers dream with agil sheeps?

  Published: September 11, 2007, 6:35 pm

  Tags: Personal, 2007, Rails Rumble, Ruby, Sake, Sakebar

  de utilidad a la comunidad ruby/rails. M s detalles sobre SakeBar en LaCaraOscura.com 2007, rails rumble, ruby, sake,

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• NetBeans IDE 6.0 Beta 1 is Out!

  Published: September 12, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Java, Ruby, Sun, Software Engineering, Rails

  While searching for a nightly build of NetBeans I noticed that NB6 Beta 1 is out. Great! I'm looking forward to using the new version. After spending the last couple of weeks (or months?) developing in NB6M10, I can't wait to see what this release brings. The first thing that stuck me though is the lack of "drag&drop" installation on

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