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19 Rails Tricks for Ruby Coders

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:36:53 +0000

Here are 19 Rails Tricks Most Ruby Coders Did Not Know — until the article was published… I liked the pointer about using BackgroundRB to run long running tasks (in the background).

RadRails IDE – Ruby on Rails – Tutorial

admin — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:42:36 +0000

RadRails is the Eclipse-based IDE for Ruby on Rails. Learn about installing RadRails, the structure and use of the application window, and the primary steps in developing an application. Ruby on Rails has hit the big time. With that popularity has come the desire by developers for an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes Rails even more accessible. RadRails, a Eclipse-based environment, fulfills that need for many developers.

This article introduces the RadRails IDE

How to Be a Programmer

admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:52:24 +0000

I stumbled upon this interesting article this morning: How to Be a Programmer. But it is not all about bits and bytes and has an interesting section on How to Utilize People as Information Sources. If you are a real geek (as in nerdy geek), you might need to read How to Talk to Non-Engineers. And here is a real gem: How to Document Wisely…

” Life is too short to write crap nobody will read; if you write crap, nobody will read it.”

Python Tutorial – at InfoGami

admin — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:13:59 +0000

An unofficial Python Tutorial is at growing in the InfoGami wiki system. It has a nice layout and the code examples are easy to read. See for instance the section on Python Modules, or the Brief Tour of the Standard Python Library. I just really appreciate it when the page layout is so clean and easy to read, code examples sprinkled like spice — which makes this technical documentation for Python easy to study.