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Dr Nic’s Tumblelog

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Everyday I have 100s of blog articles to read [Ed: mostly I read the title and press the ‘N’ button], so I’m fearful of dumping random...

Does cygwin have a port equivalent?

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
So now I have a unix-based laptop (with a glowing piece of fruit on the lid), I have been revisiting saved blog articles about snazzy unix-only short cuts...

Syntax Highlighting in Tumblr

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I wrote an email to the lovely Tumblr people asking for Syntax Highlighting for code chunks. Several hours passed and they still hadn’t jumped at...

test

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Ruby on Rails and TextMate are wonderful....

Meta-Magic in Ruby: Dr Nic Unplugged in Stockholm

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Last nights’ Ruby meeting in Stockholm had a great turn out and starred Ola Bini sharing the latest and greatest about JRuby, and myself giving an...

“Drop Rails into TomCat and it just works” - Ola Bini on JRuby presentation

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Until Ola Bini stood up at the Stockholm Rails/Ruby Group meeting the other night, I had only a passing interest in JRuby. To me, running Ruby on Java...

Magic Models: the Spring collection

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Over the last few months, we at Dr Nic Magic Models (Sweden) Inc. have been gradually selling down all the company shares to pension funds at over-inflated...

Capistrano variables

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Here’s an example of how you can pass variables to your capistrano actions via the cap command. desc "Returns last lines of log file. Usage: cap...

Spring Collection - the Modular Magic Models

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Dr Nic’s Magic Models are like cheating on your taxes but without jail time. Its like filling out your tax return, and the tax office saying, “...

Magic Multi-Connections: A “facility in Rails to talk to more than one database at a time”

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
At this point in time there’s no facility in Rails to talk to more than one database at a time. Alex Payne I possibly have such a facility. Perhaps it...