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Newschool Git workflow with Magit

I’ve been on a roll with using Emacs to make my workflow more efficient. So far, so good. The latest major addition is my adoption of the most-excellent Magit mode for integrating Git and Emacs in a wonderfully-efficient way. One of the best features is that you get a magit-status buffer which acts like your [ READ MORE ]

Great post about Emacs keyboard macros

I always find great stuff on the emacs-fu blog but today I read a particularly-wonderful post about Emacs keyboard macros. Like the author, I’ve been a long-time Emacs user but never really got into keyboard macros because it’s been quite easy to produce an elisp one-liner in many cases. That being said, this seems like [ READ MORE ]

newhaven.rb hackfest tomorrow!

Tomorrow, in New Haven, CT will be the “Ruby, White and Blue” Hackfest run by newhaven.rb. We’ll be working on a few projects including the group’s site and most likely some Prawn and ScosugBot stuff. Beginners and people interested in learning are more than welcome and we hope to have some excellent projects for people [ READ MORE ]

Blogs that sort of make fun of others

I have recently been exposed to several different blogs which make fun of others. I am unsure as to what this genre signifies. Perhaps I shall ask a sociologist. In the meantime, here is my list so far. Additions are welcome and will get you a mention and a link. People of Walmart (classic) Dear [ READ MORE ]

Creating a Ruby DSL

Tons of people in the Ruby community go on and on about domain-specific languages (abbreviated DSL) and how wonderful they are. In most cases, I agree with them. I began to wonder how I could go about leveraging Ruby’s awesomely-flexible syntax to create my own DSL. To illustrate my quest, I have written this article. [ READ MORE ]

Continuity Control presents at Finovate

Pleased to say that Continuity Control has gotten some rather positive feedback while presenting at this year’s Finovate! While not the only feedback, some of my favorites here: Tweets: one – two – three – four – five Photos: one – two Truly proud of be part of the team[ READ MORE ]

Debian package state backup and restore

While getting into bundler (which is great, btw), I recalled how often I have longed for a way to do something similar in Debian. What I’d really like to be able to do is something like aptitude backup and get some sort of backup file which contained all of the packages I had asked to [ READ MORE ]

Building shared libraries

Being a Debian user, I don’t make a habit of compiling things by hand and on those occasions when I do need to do so, I usually use apt-build (good article, though a bit old here). However, today I had to get a particularly odd shared library with a very specific version to match a [ READ MORE ]

Newest public key

My GPG public key had expired a few months ago so I made a new one and set this one not to expire. Backed up in many places this one is so I’ll be excited to get it signed at the upcoming SCOSUG key signing party. So you can get it right here on this [ READ MORE ]

HTML5 has custom data attributes

So, I know that the Microformats project has has varying degrees of success in their endeavor to embed data in HTML such that it does not violate web standards.  As John Resig pointed out, others have used things like XML namespacing in XHTML to achieve similar goals. The most notable usages of this technique are [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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