Chain Links #031
Posted: September 17th, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: git, jquery, ruby | Comments OffSigh. Two years ago Textmate was the “HAWT” editor (and not a small part of why I moved to a mac). Now all the “cool kids” are moving to vim. Color me nonplussed.
- There’s No Such Thing As A Good Client
“…a business model is about equity, and consulting is only useful for income. This is why consulting is a terrible business model.” - Firefinder for Firebug for Firefox for Fiddling with jQuery
Firefinder is a plugin for Firefox/Firebug that can use to test jquery selectors. Looks like a nice little tool to add to the toolbelt. - Deployment: Diffs and Dependencies
A couple of nice rubygems here for checking diffs between local and remote code and local and remote gem repositories. - Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git
Wait, what? Git? What’s that?
- Shades of Gray: Ruby 1.9′s String
A question was raised on the tulsarb mailing list today about strings in Ruby 1.9 and how they are no longer Enumerable. Here’s some more info from James Edward Grey, including the justification and some tips to handle incompatibilities if you need code to run on 1.8 and 1.9.
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