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Text editor/IDE Smackdown
As I looked at my taskbar yesterday and saw three different text editors/IDEs open at once, it brought home the fact that there's no one tool that's the best for any job. At the time I had Zend IDE...
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There are four 'index.html's, I don't know which to click!
Another idea for a text editor/IDE feature along the lines of my previous suggestion on keeping track of things when programming: where you've got files from two or more different projects open at ...
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Disability Warehouse open for business
As part of my work at Net Effects, since Christmas last year I've been working on a new online shopping system wherever other client work allows. For a good few years, Net Effects have run an onlin...
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Pro tips... not so pro?
I would have posted this on Friday, but I've been having severe trouble with my site going down so here it is now... Via CSS Beauty, I found .net magazine's 20 pro tips article online. It's an a...
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Another new Ruby on Rails book
My copy of Ruby for Rails, by David A. Black, arrived today and looks pretty good. It's aimed at teaching Ruby itself, but in terms of how it can then be used for Rails application development, whi...
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New Jurassic 5
Now that's a nice surprise - browsing play.com and finding there's a new J5 album out next week. Pre-ordered. Done.
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Heading to Mac
After hankering after trying OS X for quite a while, I'm pretty much decided on going for a Macbook now that Windows can be run on Intel Macs. So much so that I just bought Parallels in advance (vi...
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First 'proper' Rails project done
Just finished the coding on my first (work) Rails project yesterday. We're still waiting for the finished logo and content from the client though, so I'll wait for that before posting a link as I d...
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Aww
Microsoft shuts down Windows 98 - they're finally ending support for the Win98 operating system. It astounds me that anyone who uses their computer more than very occasionally could still be using ...
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Rails search in 5 minutes
I got to the point of needing to add search to the CMS I'm working on, so did a quick google search to see if there was any existing help for doing search in Rails. Up popped a result on the Rails ...