Archive: Outside the Box category
Found a nice collection of links to Ruby on Rails tutorials on Digital Media Minute: Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials.
[tags]Ruby on Rails[/tags]
The MacBook has been released. Mmm. Looks like the iBook/PowerBook era has ended. ~wipes away a tear~ ;) You know, if it's going to cost more than $300 or $400 to fix my PowerBook, I may end up just going for one of these babies instead. ...
Wow. Firebug is cool. Like, oh my gosh cool. Why haven't I heard about it? Why haven't I been using it? The Web Developer extension is cool and I use it every day, but Firebug is more than I could've expected. Wow. ...
I'm reading through the TextMate Basics Tutorial on Sereniki. It's pretty good, and wow, TextMate really is cool. (I'll start reading through the manual once I finish this tutorial.) Anyway, I noticed that there's no syntax highlighting for Lilypond -- that may have to change. ...
I've switched to TextMate for my work development (which is mostly HTML, CSS, and XSLT at the moment, plus Ruby and Python for Beyond). And I'm liking it. Granted, I haven't read the manual yet and so my fingers are really missing vi keystrokes, but I'm going ...
Ran across an interesting article on Raganwald, Why do we resist the idea that programming is hard? Here's one of the lead-in quotes, by Edsger Dijkstra:
“Don’t blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for ‘the ...
Up until February when I switched to Bluehost, my sites were hosted with eHostPros. Things generally were okay, but then I tried to cancel my account (in February), before the billing cycle (which was March 9, so that it would end then). Got a confirmation that ...
Today I read about the Levenshtein distance algorithm and decided to code it in Ruby.
In information theory, the Levenshtein distance or edit distance between two strings is given by the minimum number of operations needed to transform one string into the other, where an operation is an insertion, deletion, ...
From Wikipedia:
The OpenDocument format (ODF), short for the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications, is an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents such as text documents (including memos, reports, and books), spreadsheets, databases, charts, and presentations. This standard was developed by the OASIS ...
I was looking at Mike Clark's TextMate Cheat Sheet for Rails Hackers a minute ago and saw the Command key sign (⌘, if your font has it). It was the first time I realized that the symbol had to be in a font somewhere (yes, I know, I'm ...
