Have you seen this article? True believers: The biggest cults in tech. IT and technology folks are very partial to thier toys. We latch onto computers, programming languages, operating systems, and are adamant about thier superiority. Reading this article brought back many memories of my various IT objects of worship.
I owned both a Commodore VIC-20 [...]
In my previous post I detailed my problems getting NetBeans 6.0 to use the native Ruby installation on OS X Leopard. So, we pick up the story with that issue resolved.
Ok, time to create a new Rails project and get started. I go through the standard steps in NetBeans and am informed that there is [...]
Ok, step one: Install Netbeans 6.0 Ruby version. No problem here, it works like any other package install. Now to configure it to my taste. The main change is to change the default Ruby engine from the included JRuby to the OS X installed 1.8.6 version of Ruby. I have nothing against JRuby, but [...]
Ok, now back to software development topics. In particular, my current interest in Ruby, and it’s current killer app (framework): Rails. As for the post title, look here. It’s my hope that following the Rails won’t end up similiarly, but if you read stuff like this, you have to wonder. Although Zed seems to be [...]
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