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Rdoc.info Updated

~2 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Rdoc.info is now serving up fresh docs using YARD 0.4.0. Doesn’t that new template look nice? If you’re a Ruby OSS developer and haven&rsquo...

Ruby Method Visibility

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
In Java (and most OO languages), declaring a method as private means that the method can only be accessed within the context of the defining class. Similarly...

Links For 11.24.07

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
JRails – Drop-in JQuery replacement for Rails prototype/script.aculo.us helpers. NetBeans 6.0 RC2 – Available for download. Gemtacular...

Software Development 2.0 China

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Today I’m in Beijing, attending the CSDN-Dr. Dobb’s Software Development 2.0 conference. It’s my first time in China and it’s quite...

Get Ready To Rumble

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So like everyone else, you probably have a killer web app idea you’ve been sitting on. Maybe you’ve thought about building it, maybe you’...

Holiday Gifts: Ruby 1.9

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Happy holidays everybody. In case you haven’t heard, Ruby 1.9 was released yesterday. If you’re not exhausted from overeating and traveling...

Links For 12.05.07

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Waiting at IAD for a connecting flight home (en route from Beijing). It’s snowing. That means delays. I’m tired. But at least I have some time...

Rails 2.0 Released

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
It’s official; Rails 2.0 was officially released this morning. Gem update rails to snag it. There’s some great stuff in there, if you haven...

Emerging Technologies Conference 2008

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I really enjoy the technology conference ritual, make it a point to get to at least a few every year. I particularly enjoy the smaller regional conferences...

Ruby, Rails, Micropayments, and Amazon FPS

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Last week Amazon unveiled a beta of their new Flexible Payments Service, a potential Paypal-killer and Google Checkout-killer, among other things. At first...