Archive for August 12th, 2008
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…
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
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?
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.
