Posts Tagged ‘ Computing ’

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

Rails + Merb = Rails 3

I’m rather excited about this. Saw this talk right here. Oh, and then there’s this[ READ MORE ]

Enthusiasts talk shop casually

I spent some time with a few colleagues yesterday and came to the conclusion that true enthusiasts gravitate toward talking shop with one another. This is true even of casual situations. I’ve had plenty of “getting to know you” and “let’s just hang” social situations with other geeks where we might start out talking about [ READ MORE ]

Neato article about NoSQL on Ars Technica

I am very excited by some of the NoSQL stuff out there and enjoyed a recent Ars Technica article. The first page is some neat background and the second page has a good overview of some NoSQL options out there. http://arstechnica.com/business/data-centers/2010/02/-since-the-rise-of.ars[ 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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