Jay McGavren's Journal

2008-05-14

I have two Environments talking!

Well, sort of. They can only share one Creature, and then they start throwing DuplicateObjectErrors. And they don’t keep that one creature’s movement in sync. But it sure was a thrill to drop a Creature on one screen and watch it appear, behaviors and all, on the other.

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2008-05-13

I want a Xambox document scanner even more...

Especially if the product manual has as much fun Frenchlish as the Website…

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2008-05-13

Logan Barnett was (rightly) horrified to see during my presentation that I was still using a Windows command prompt… He pointed me to Console 2.0.

Sweet! I’ve long been wondering how I could get PuTTY or the Gnome Terminal working on Windows (without resorting to CygWin). This is every bit as good.

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2008-05-10

Rubyscript2exe and NSIS...

I also said I’d present on rubyscript2exe, which is likely to turn into a NSIS tutorial as well.

Here’s a quick copy-paste from a build session…

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2008-05-10

Doodle, Distilled...

Gonna give a brief presentation on Doodle to the Ruby Users Group on Monday. While some folks can just wing it, I needed to prepare notes. The need for brevity and a large font for the projector requires a short and sweet summary.

In hopes of helping others, here’s what I’ve got…

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