Posts Tagged ‘ F/OSS ’

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 ]

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 ]

Rails + Merb = Rails 3

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

Cool Free/Open Source Software from Google

As has been spoken about endlessly (OStatic, OSnews), there is a great blog post from 0x1fff with many (started at 35, is now many more) open source projects from Google. In fact and indeed, there is some cool stuff on there. I knew about Caja and Protocol Buffers (wish there was a JS port of [ READ MORE ]

ES5 is finally here, JavaScript geeks rejoice!

So, earlier this week, it was announced that ECMAScript 5 has finally been released. This is a good thing and I caught the highlights on InfoQ. The full draft is a 252 page PDF  beast of a document which covers basically about everything there is to cover. The things which strike me as interesting are [ READ MORE ]

Messing with OpenStreetMap

Some people might not see the reason for a project like OpenStreetMap when there are plenty of good mapping products and services laying around. I am not one of them. Whenever I use a GPS, I think quite a bit about it’s inner workings. How does it figure out which route is best? How does [ 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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