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NetBeans: Helpful Plugins

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So, NetBeans 6.0 Final was released a few weeks ago. v6.0 is all about the Ruby love, right out of the box. If you haven’t tried it, I implore you...

SimpleDB is RESTful & Schema-less

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So the big web service of the week announcement goes to Amazon, for their AWS SimpleDB hosted service. This should place nicely with EC2, which is an interesting...

Links for 12.17.07

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Some git goodies, updates to both Rails and Merb, and other stuff this week. Here’s the breakdown: Evan Williams writes about how to evaluate a...

To REST Or Not To REST...

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Assaf Arkin is right, and I stand corrected. SimpleDB ain’t RESTful. Hell, it’s not really even GETSful. But it sure sounds nice when they put...

DataMapper 0.2.5 Released

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Sam released DataMapper 0.2.5 on Wednesday. It includes a bunch of tasty bugfixes before our next leap to 0.3.×. Give it a try if you haven’t...

Reading List Update

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So I updated this blog from Mephisto 0.7.3 to the latest trunk yesterday and I’m happy to report that the process was 100% painless. Edge has a number...

Coworking Jealousy

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I’m calling it now: Coworking spaces are the new startup incubator. No, I’m not talking about shared office space. No way. It’s different...

Storing YAML in YAML Fixtures

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
If you ever find yourself in a situation where you have an attribute value that needs to be serialized (stored as YAML) and used within a (YAML) fixture...

NHRuby 2008

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
The Seacoast NH Ruby SIG (NHRuby) will hold it’s first meeting of 2008 tomorrow, Tuesday January 15th in Portsmouth. I’ll be talking about OpenID...

Railsconf Registration Open

~4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Registration for Railsconf 2008 opened earlier today. According to the site, there will be more advanced-level sessions this year, which is definitely a...