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RubyDrop: A Dropbox Clone in Ruby

Ever used Dropbox? It's awesome. A cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, and even mobile) file syncing and backup service with 2GB for free (or 2.25GB if you sign up with this link).

Railscasts Xcode theme

For those of you who use the excellent Railscasts TextMate theme and want to replicate the theme in Xcode, you can grab my version from Github. This is what it looks like:

Tools of the trade

Peter Cooper of Ruby Inside recently asked if people wanted to write about the things that they use in their development work. So I jumped squarely onto that band wagon…

State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance

Ruby is commonly associated with the frameworks (Rails, RSpec, and many others) that it enabled, but it is much more than that. The same ideology and design principles that popularized the language at the start are also the reason why it is being currently ported to a variety of alternative platforms: JVM, Objective-C, Smalltalk VM and Microsoft’s DLR.

Ruby En Rails 2009 Recap

The last past days in Amsterdam for Ruby En Rails 2009 were really great.

I arrived on Thursday and had the chance to discuss a possible security vulnerability in Rails I discovered a while back with Yehuda and Mislav during lunch.

Afterwards we went to the conference dinner and met many very nice people and had a long discussion about voting systems, European vs. American culture, gun laws, and political systems.

The Tools I Use

Inspired by Mike Gunderloy’s recent blog post, I decided to put together a list of the tools I use, both hardware and software.

I use a Mac at home and a Windows laptop at work; I plan to cover the Windows tools in a later post.

CouchDB-Lucene, CouchDBX, and CouchRest

I’ve been playing a lot with CouchDB lately and if you’re on OS X there’s really no easier way to do so than by using CouchDBX, a self-contained application that includes CouchDB, Erlang, and all of the dependencies you need to run Couch.

Migrating to Snow Leopard for Rails Development – A Definitive Guide

I spent a good chunk of the last couple of days upgrading one of my Macs to Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), and keeping notes as I went. I had several goals here:

Double Shot #529

I’ll likely be doing a Snow Leopard upgrade on my main dev box some time next week – after I have a good bootable backup. Meanwhile, I’ve collected a bunch of links to (I hope) avoid some of the trouble spots.

DB2 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Earlier today I headed over to the local Apple Store to purchase a copy of Snow Leopard, the newest version of Apple’s operating system. There was a decent line up, as I expected. Not the kind of line up you’d encounter with the launch of a new iPhone, but it was fairly busy for a Friday morning. When I arrived, I took my place at the end of the queue where rumors were swirling around about the store having sold out of single copies of Snow Leopard in its first hour.

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