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- Blogging to WordPress using TextMate
This is frickin awesome!
Not only is TextMate an awesome text editor for use when coding but I have just discovered that it also handles posting directly to this blog using wordpress’ xmlrpc API.
Once again TextMate you continue to surprise me.
You still rock !!!!!
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- Charles, or Charlie to its friends
I’ve been using a HTTP debbuging proxy application (Fiddler) for a while now during my day to day work on a windows machine but have recently wanted to debug some developments when using my mac mini. A little investigation and I stumbled upon an application with a strange vase of flowers as its logo [...]
- 11th commandment
thou shall not use thy iPod touch until thy hand goes numb and tingly
- Sending files is nothing new
If your email supplier or your recipient has a limit on the size of attachment that can be sent/received then how do you get that file to them? There are many services that can solve this, but I’ve found the most useful to be senduit
With senduit not only are you able to upload a file and [...]
- TextMate and Ruby on Rails
Up until now my adventures with Ruby on Rails have been within Aptana using the RadRails development plugin. While this is an excellent IDE, with limited resources on my old G4 Powerbook (1.33 GHz with only 512Mb Ram) the machine quickly grinds to a halt. I don’t help myself sometimes, with me running ITunes and [...]
- Railscast
Railscasts are awesome little tips in video format to give a better grip on rails and optimising your code, sponsored by the previously mentioned PeepCode. What’s even better is they’re available as podcasts, happy days!
Every week Ryan Bates will host a new Railscasts episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails. These screencasts are [...]
- Handy Ruby/Rails tips
I stumbled upon this post on Richard Senior’s blog iFingers that has some handy tips for newbies to both ruby and also rails. I recommend you check it out!
- PeepCode
Some great tutorial videos can be found at PeepCode. In particular, one that shows how easy rails makes it to create a javascript sortable list and also the different methods ActiveRecord provides to search and sort.
- ActiveRecord in Rails
Well I have been learning the basics of Ruby via the IRB and through TextMate (mac only, sorry) and now its time to start to work with rails.
I am impressed on just how easy it is to bring data to the page from a model class. There’s no need to put items into a property bag as you have to [...]
- Lack of posts and the wordpress admin area
Ok, I’ll admit it! I set out to blog regularly when I found something worth shouting about but I have been lazy to add new posts as I didn’t feel comfortable using the default wordpress admin area, in fact thats a bit of an understatement.
Well today I decided to take a look and see [...]
