I'm probably not the first to make this joke, but...
Read more...Someone was doing a demo at the Ruby users’ group on their MacBook, and a transparent notification popped up that their Website was inaccessible. I didn’t know what app was responsible until just now:
Growl (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Growl is a global notifications system for the Mac OS X operating system. Applications can use Growl to display small notifications about events which the user deems important, in a consistent manner.” Growl (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I’m watching Jeffrey Grosenbach’s screencast on rSpec, and he’s got Autotest (which watches a directory for file changes and automatically runs the appropriate tests) hooked into Growl. He writes a test, saves it, and boom - a frowny-face immediately appears at the bottom of the screen with the failing test. No further effort required. He updates the source code, saves it, boom - smiley face showing the test now passes. No further effort required.
Ruby in general keeps the feedback loop very tight like this (I’m thinking here of Rails’ ability to modify an app while it’s running). Ultimately this is going to produce better coders, faster.
Hmmm, now I’m imagining a Zyps setup that kills the old interpreter and runs a new one every time you save an environment setup…
Read more...Hrmmm…
Wrote a script to scrape and tally the number of added/changed lines per day from the Zyps repository…
Read more...I think I’m gonna go cold turkey on coffee. It may help keep me awake, but drinking 3 cups a day probably isn’t doing much for my productivity (anymore), and certainly isn’t good for my stomach lining.
We’ll see how much I regret that decision later. Even now I can hear the coffee maker here at work, and am having to resist the urge to grab my mug and head over there.
Read more...Zyps screencast...
I don’t see any way I can convert this to Quicktime MOV for Chris Matthieu’s Rubyology podcast without Quicktime Pro, so I guess I can make my screencast for Zyps public…
Once the new Dell laptop comes in (the Acer’s taking a crap), I’m gonna buy QT Pro and try to convert it. (My desktop is running Win2K right now, which Apple no longer supports.)
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