August 12th, 2008


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Aug 08

Internet Radio on iTunes

Today I realized that I have become totally dependent on the Internet Radio support in iTunes when coding at night!

I spend a good amount of time in the office when the other guys have gone home (dedication ey?) and having a random (usually Dance Music) internet radio station blasting out from across the office creates a fantastic coding environment.

Although, I guess you do need to be the sort of person who likes to code to Music.

I’ve spent the last 4 hours listening to a station called Puls which is the sort of non stop dance music that makes you smile :-)

Try it…


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Aug 08

Passenger (mod_rails) Preferences Pane for OS X

If like me you have started using Phusion Pasenger for development sites as well as production sites and you are fortunate to work on a Mac, you will really appreciate the Passenger Preferences Pane by Eloy Duran.

Using it, is as simple as…

Step 1 Point it at your rails folder.

Step 2 Give it a host name to use.

Step 3 LOL, there is no Step Three


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Aug 08

Something I didn’t know Yesterday

Using the SVN client you can pass –xml to most of the commands to get a response in XML!

This is great for apps that use the SVN Client API and need to parse the response, for example…

svn log http://svn_url --xml

Will produce a nice XML version of the SVN log.

For good measure you can also use the verbose option to extract even more information…

svn log http://svn_url --xml -v

Pretty cool ey?


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Aug 08

Daily Dose #1

A few links to get us going…

IPhone Development

iphone-universal
Normalized CSS & HTML framework to develop iPhone webdev applications

C#

Simple REST Client
Some .NET code for consuming RESTful web services.

Rails

Understanding Map and Reduce
Some underused collection functions in Ruby

OS X Utils

Expandrive
Cool app that allows you to mount a sFtp folder.

MarsEdit
Powerful Blog Publishing For Your Mac.