Percent Notation and Symbols in Ruby 2.0
Ruby is nice because it has the percent notation for working with different base elements such as strings, arrays, and symbols. You can create different objects by replacing the character after the ‘%’ mark.
Reset iOS Simulator With a Rake Task
A slight annoyance while developing with RubyMotion is having to reset the iOS Simulator. It is quite frustrating to use a mouse sometimes to perform a repetitive task, so I thought it would be nice to simplify that to run it in a command line. By executing AppleScript using the osascript command,...
Time to Market
In the world of software development, time-to-market is the driving force of the business. via OmniTI ~ Your Code May Be Elegant.
Ember Example Applications
Here is a list of Ember's example applications. I will be updating this list as I find new prototypes. Rails Ember Data Example Very Simple CRUD Using Ember.js Ember Todos Simple Bindings Contacts Ember Todos by Tom Dale and Addy Osmani
Sublime Text 2 Is Awesome
I forgot to mention that I have recently switched my text editor to Sublime Text 2. At first glance it is very much like Vico and TextWrangler, but there is one extension that makes it much more unique. Once you install Package Control, the editor transforms into a power-house. The...
Js2coffee: convert JavaScript code to CoffeeScript
I was having trouble converting plain javascript to coffeescript, then I found Js2coffee.
Try Git
I've been using git for versioning for some time now. But for those of you who are starting out and want to jump right into it, Codeschool has a nice online class for you: http://try.github.com/
CoffeeScript: A New Way of Looking
You could say CoffeeScript goes hand in hand with Ruby on Rails development. Here is a quick and nice syntax intro to CoffeeScript. RubySource | CoffeeScript: A New Way of Looking at ThingsRubySource: CoffeeScript allows human programmers to write code in an easily understandable form. The compiler then translates the...