Dr Nic

ls /dev/il to blame?


over 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
RubyForge has been down a few times in the last few weeks. With halloween approaching, Tom Copeland (maintainer of RF servers), did some daemon hunting...

Make RadRails look like TextMate


~5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
One my very early posts (3 months ago) might be useful to RadRailers if you haven’t already seen it: how to make RadRails text editors look like TextMate...

Chicks dig Banjos


~5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
My son Banjo’s 13th week birthday today, yet he bought me this great t-shirt. I guess I’ll have to save it for him til he’s big enough...

MS Photosynth demo truly awesome


~5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Take 100 photos of an area - some close-ups and some panoramic shots. Then try to figure out how they all fit together. Since digital cameras came out and...

What’s a hoe?


~5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
The New Gem Generator rocks. Type newgem and you get all standard scaffolding for a gem. They look just like plugins, or vice versa. And the -b option...

RadRails Templates on Trac


~5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I have started to cleanup the Ruby and RHTML templates previously released. They are now stored on SVN so you can get latest versions. They now have a ticketing...

MySpace for Railers and Rubists


~5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Show your love for the Railers of the world at Working with Rails. Forget the name of the site - really this thing is a precursor to a MySpace of Railers...

Give up RJS and go pure


~5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic. [Linked from: Ruby Inside]
RJS seems like a nice idea. Its Ruby with embedded Javascript. Now put away the crayons and get back to pure Javascript with embedded Ruby with “MinusR...

Coming home to Brisbane


~5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I left Australia on the 3rd of July last year and flew to India. A day that was also my 1st wedding anniversary. My wife was not 100% impressed that I left...

DIY widgets - How to embed your site on another site


~5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I used to wonder how Google AdSense worked. How did those ads from over at Google get on another site over here? This article ignores how Google did it...