October 7 08
Today I stumbled upon the first program I ever wrote. It’s an interesting story looking back twenty years later.
When I was somewhere between 8-10 years old my uncle gave my family our first computer, a Coleco Adam. Along with the computer we were given the now classic book BASIC Computer Games. No one in my [...]
October 3 08
Recently, Merb has been getting a lot of attention. With significant changes leading up to the 1.0 release, and now with it’s own conference, the Merb community needs a centralized place where relevant information can be found. Say hello to Merb Overheard.
Merb Overheard follows the planet-type aggregation sites similar to Planet Ruby on Rails and [...]
September 18 08
One of the coolest things about Git is how easy it makes working with branches. Rails has been playing catch up with Git’s distributed methodologies and recently took a nice step forward. Previously you could only useĀ ./script/plugin install to install from the master branch of a Github repository. Now you can specify the branch name [...]