Posts Tagged ‘ Programming ’

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

The zen of backup theory

When stuck inside due to all the snow, there is no better time to consider the topic of backup. Seriously, backup is important and the issue is fascinating.  The area of backup brings together so many topics in computing. Think about it! To do backup successfully, you must deal with data transfer, data integrity validation, [ 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 ]

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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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