DigitalHobbit

As I promised, here is the second part of my notes on setting up a new Mac. This time I will focus on development tools for Ruby on Rails.

MacPorts

In theory, Ruby is already installed on the Mac. Unfortunately, the bundled Ruby interpreter has some problems, and even if it didn’t, you’d want to use a [...]

About half a year ago, I started using an old PowerBook at work. Shortly afterwards, I was hooked and bought a MacBook for my wife. Now I finally bought a Mac for myself: a shiny, nice MacBook Pro. One of the great things about the Mac is that it is highly usable right out of [...]

I was just browsing through the MIT OpenCourseWare, and the amount of freely available information available is quite impressive. The courses span many departments, although I mainly checked out the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science section. They have lecture notes on many different classes, both undergraduate and graduate, covering pretty much all aspects of the [...]