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Technology Update (Part 1: Catching Up)

It's been a while since I last blogged about any technologies I've been playing with, so I figured I'm due for an update. I am going to split this into a two-part series: First I will play catch up and talk about the technologies that I've played with over the past 6 months or so....

February 12, 2008 · 4 min · 763 words · DigitalHobbit

My Dynamic Dilemma

For the past 8-9 years, Java has been my bread-and-butter programming language, and to this date it is the language I am most familiar with. However, for the past few years I have developed a growing interest in dynamic scripting languages, and Ruby in particular....

July 9, 2007 · 5 min · 924 words · DigitalHobbit

Setting up a virgin Mac, part 2 (Rails dev tools)

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....

January 31, 2007 · 4 min · 766 words · DigitalHobbit

Ruby Editors / IDEs

I've been working with Ruby (mostly Ruby on Rails) for over a year now, both at work and at home, but I still haven't settled on a Ruby IDE or editor....

September 24, 2006 · 5 min · 957 words · DigitalHobbit

WordPress Syntax Highlighting Plugin

I've been meaning to post some sample code for a while, and I always wanted to have a nice WordPress plugin to perform syntax highlighting of code. A cursory search of the WordPress website brought up this page, which lists a bunch of syntax highlighting pluging....

September 4, 2006 · 2 min · 267 words · DigitalHobbit