For anyone who's using Google Chrome on OSX, it's worth checking out the daily builds of Chromium. Be warned, these are daily developer builds but it seems pretty stable so far and is a lot more polished than the 'beta' that is available.
There is a little utility you can download that will keep …
I've been using Vim for a long time and never bothered checking out the tab stuff because I assumed that it worked like tabs normally work... Turns out in Vim, tabs are actually very useful, but poorly named. They are more view ports or varying layouts than tabs in the conventional sense - and are v…
I've been using Vim for awhile as my primary editor and when I was first starting I did a lot of poking around to see what other peoples setups looked like, so I figured I'd contribute a quick article back to the innernets with my setup.
Only one of the plugins I have installed is actually Rails spe…
I enabled FileVault on my laptop today, and not really thinking about it selected the 'Secure Erase old home directory' option. While this is a good idea if you have really sensitive documents, I don't, and the time (not to mention abuse of the hard drive) is not worth it for me. Sadly there is no o…
Ever need to find out what a color on your screen is in hex or rgb? Anyone doing any kind of design work has probably run into this before, and there are things out there you can install to do this... But I just discovered that OS X has a tool for this built in, and it's really quite good!
It's cal…
For anyone doing stuff requiring a good MIME library in Ruby, shared-mime-info works well. On OS X a few things are necessary to make it work though.
First, use ports to install the shared-mime-info database:
sudo port install shared-mime-info
Then you have to set XDG_DATA_DIRS to point at the right…
I've found a couple nifty tools that I figured I'd share:
Rak is a grep replacement written in ruby - it has some pretty neat features including nicer output by default, ignoring .svn and other similar directories. Definitely worth poking through at least the info on the website.
Reggy is a very sim…
It took awhile, but I've finally switched over to OSX - and from what I can tell by googling for "OSX Ruby mysql gem", have gone through what seems to be an initiation.
There are many, many, many posts on how to make it install - and most of them didn't work for me. I did get it to work though and a…