Read Part I and Part II So my strategy is as follows: I use Windows to run web browsers, the odd desktop app like Photoshop, handy GUI utilities like calculators, media playback, and the like. On top of all this, I have installed VirtualBox and the easy-to-install Windows version of Vagrant, running a VM with…
Continued from Part I Due to many factors, setting up Linux turned out to be Hell. Both the kernel and GRUB wouldn’t have the ability to recognize the aforementioned pseudo-RAID array as a single disk until later (I’m still not sure if GRUB does), so I first had to effectively wipe the filesystem in its…
So, recently I’ve been trying an experiment: I’ve been using Windows 7 as a base OS for my primary development box. Why did I do this, and how has it been? Allow me to explain. I have been a *-nix man for many years, starting with Mac OS X and it’s largely-FreeBSD/NetBSD-derived platform. I have…
Just a real quick tip for other Rails developers out there who enjoy the benefits of MacRabbit’s excellent software CSSEdit. Due to the fact that Rails applies a timestamp to every asset (stylesheet, javascript, and/or image) included in a view via the appropriate helper in order to allow the user to use the Expires header…
So I’m reading all our designers’ “Trapper Keeper” posts, and I figure, “why should they get to have all the fun? Developers have stuff to say as well!” In that spirit, here is my attempt to start a similar series for the development department here at CentreSource. class DeveloperArsenal < Programmers::Toolset include CentreSource::JeremyHolland end 1….
I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of my time “doing”. Sometimes I know what I’m “doing”… however most of the time I am learning as I go with broad conceptual understanding, while at the same time pretending to be an expert. The professional world where most of us live floats primarily…
If you’re anything like me, December is a tough month to stay focused. There is college basketball, football bowl games, family visiting, cookies to bake, gifts to buy and wrap and on top of it all WORK.
Oh Evernote. I kept hearing about you like that restaurant on the other side of town that everyone loved but I had never been to, which meant of course that I would have to TRAVEL to the other side of town which is terribly inconvenient (and the Belmont hipsters make me nervous).
Capistrano is an open source tool for running scripts on multiple servers. It’s primary use is for easily deploying applications.
Morgan takes another look at some of the cool and useful stuff on the Web.
