The past 2 weeks I’ve paired with Theo Cushion (Theo’s Twitter | Theo’s GitHub).
Was planned some Erlang joy, a lot of system/server maintenance, good amount of Ruby and some JavaScript goodness.
Pair programming?
Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one work station. One types in code while the [...]
Since September, I’ve been developing tweetcetera on my spare time. And I’m on the point to release a beta soon (end of the month or earlier)..
What is tweetcetera?
Tweetcetera is a web application I’m working on the spare time. Basically, you login in with you Twitter account, and it reproduce the Twitter web interface with smarter [...]
This week was the Rails Rumble week end.
For them who don’t know, the Rails Rumble is a 48H ruby web development competition. In this period of time your team (up to 4 people) has to create the best web application possible.
As last year, I went solo this year, and came up with Planet Toaster.
What is [...]
I had a problem last week, while developing tweetcetera. I need to use open-uri to open the twitter search url.
BUT, when I develop/test from from my office, I needed to pass through my corporate proxy. Obviously not when I’m at home, and not on my staging/development server.
For the first days I just manage to remove [...]
I’ve started learning Rails and Ruby 3 years ago now, and now all my side projects are made in RoR.
I’ll be ready soon to release my third rails application, but having launched earlier this year serialcooking.com I’ve learn a lot on good RoR good practice in terms of development, deployment and maintenance.
I just wanted to [...]
This year I’m looking to more networking and freelancing in the Uk, so I’ve made these business cards and they’ve been printed by Moo.
As alway, Moo quality is just fantastic, and I’m happy with the result. But I’ll certainly do another with Web Strategy Developer or something like that (more generic than Ruby on Rails [...]
After having released www.serialcooking.com, I needed to do something just for me (I work on serialcooking with Nathalie).
This monday, I started a web implementation of Tweetdeck, and even if it’s now finished now, it goes very quickly.
I’ve used twitter_auth, and worked on it only 2 nights currently, but I want to realease it as soon [...]
It was the big things weeks ago, but I didn’t had time to test it. Twitter_auth, allows you to user the twitter authentication on you application. And it’s really sweet!.
Let’s do a small implementation together.
Step 1: Prepare your development box
Because Twitter doesn’t allow the callback parameter anymore, you’ll need to setup your workstation.
I recommend to [...]
This morning I needed to transform some Textmate snippets to Gedit format.
I’ve wrote a quick and dirty code for that (tmsnippets2gedit on github)
You just need to copy the script to the textmate bumdle root directory, and run it.
You’ll have a new file call result.xml that you need to edit to specify the language format (JS,Ruby,XSL, [...]
After resintalling my workstation on Ubuntu Jaunty (for using EXT4), I had to reinstall my development softwares.
Using Giantrobot 2009 Rubyit’s guide to Mac Os development as a guideline for this post, I’ll present here my current Linux configutation for Ruby development.
Also opinionated (Gedit over Netbeans), this configuration suit all my need for developing everyday. (And [...]