IRB (Interactive Ruby Shell) is one of those tools that a hacker learning Ruby hopefully discovers right away. It’s an extremely useful way to learn the language to get immediate feedback. Unfortunately there is no persistent history and TAB completion. So put this tiny script below in your .irbrc file located in your home directory [...]
To install MySQL Server on Snow Leopard some manual work is necessary. After upgrading to Mac OS 10.6.5, I had some errors. I was stumped, until I realized that Apple’s update had changed the write permissions on /usr/local I ran:
Everybody knows Google Chrome. It’s an elegant and fast browser. But I hope anyone is not using Chrome because of privacy issues. Luckily the core application is Open-Source named “Chromium Browser”. It looks the same and is free of Google crap. Never the less there is no binary package or DMG-Image. So you normally need to [...]
Jeah, everybody talks about code refactoring but who really makes this annoying job? But the practice of making the working code even better and more manageable through better design is a really important step. It is one core method in test-driven and behavior-driven development.
This year the CeBIT Blogger-Tour was organized for the first time by the Deutsche Messe AG in cooperation with the t3n-magazine. Here are some visual impressions:
The Google Visualization API enables you to create interactive JavaScript-Charts and graphs easily. Winston Teo Yong Wei (the Developer of wego.com) created GoogleVisualr (see at GitHub) This Ruby Plugin, is a wrapper around the Google Visualization API and allows you to create the same visualizations with just pure Ruby. You don’t have to write any [...]
In Russia, there have been already several plans to use open source software. But it never came to a breakthrough. But now Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a plan for the “transition of power structures and the federal budget to free”. According to the document, the introduction of Linux in the government should begin in [...]
With the release of MAC OS X 10.5 (Leopard) the terminal app surprisingly got a great improvement: The Tabs! Unfortunately the default terminal-font sucks. So I had to look up which default font GNOME terminal uses and install it on my OS X. Here are the steps to follow: Download Bitstream Vera Mono 1.10 Extract [...]
