- Getting Started With ActiveRecord Migrations — Because, you know, at some point I’m going to have to dive into using them quite hard…
Tagged as: database deployment development rails rubyonrails versioncontrol - TextDrive Gem question — Locking the core Rails gems’ versions. Useful, if it’s still valid syntax (Rails moves a lot in a year)
Tagged as: deployment hosting rails rubyonrails - Fiction networks : the emergence of proprietary, persistent, large-scale popular fictions by Jason Todd Craft. — Ooh. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Large scale persistent fictions? Distributed serial narrative? Awesome
Tagged as: fiction narrative networks publishing thesis
- Hivelogic: Articles: Preventing SVN Exposure — I’ll need this some day in the next month or so, now I’ve got SVN up and working (hurrah!)
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- Why Content Publishers shouldn’t host weblogs… (plasticbag.org) — I’ve always maintained that publishing/broadcast companies shouldn’t host user weblogs; I’d forgotten that I may/may not have read it here first. Tom, on the money, as ever.
Tagged as: blogs media publishing
- Guest: Mike Harris looks at "Remind" | 43 Folders — The good stuff is in the comments.
Tagged as: mac osx productivity remind tool tutorial unix - Remind: The Ultimate Personal Calendar | Linux Journal — Comprehensive article on Remind
Tagged as: article mac opensource osx productivity remind unix - MacDevCenter.com — Unix Gems for Mac OS X — Featuring, of course, Remind.
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- Can newspapers do blogs right? — Good question, and some useful links (although it’s a US-centric article)
Tagged as: blogs media newspapers publishing
- Rands In Repose: 1.0 — Building companies from the ground. Really good writing.
Tagged as: business development management process startup
- Writing Domain Specific Languages — Jamis Buck on DSLs in Ruby.
Tagged as: domainspecificlanguage dsl programming ruby
- Setting Up a Rails Development Environment and Deploying to Textdrive — The stuff on SVN and proxying behind Apache is useful
Tagged as: rails rub rubyonrails textdrive tutorial - acts_as_ferret – Trac — Nice – ferret support as a Rails plugin
Tagged as: engine lucene plugin rails ruby rubyonrails search - HowToIntegrateFerretWithRails in Ruby on Rails — Will probably be better to go with acts_as_ferret, but we’ll see
Tagged as: engine lucene rails ruby rubyonrails search - Dieter Steffmann @ typOasis — Lovely, lovely Steffmann fonts – and lots of them.
Tagged as: design fonts typography
- Brett’s Absolutely Astounding Interactive Searchable Unicode Chart — Useful. Very, very useful. Converts to/from Unicode, UTF8, Shift-JIS and English/Japanese defintions. Lifesaver.
Tagged as: characters encoding shift-jis typography unicode useful - Simple SJISUniverter — Also useful, though only works on IE/Windows. Converts to/from Shift-JIS and Unicode encodings, yum
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