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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18
Jul 18th
- I had completely forgotten how good American Beauty is. I should really remember to watch this movie at least once a year. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27
Jun 27th
- Less piccolo, more fife! #
- http://twitpic.com/1z9enu hanging out with @rainbowbecca, watching the ducks: -) #
- Uncomfortably hot in Boston today #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20
Jun 20th
- @rainbowbecca http://twitpic.com/1y8sjj (just a little off the top!) #
- People who use "while true" instead of "loop do" are silly. #
- RT @linode: We're celebrating our 7th birthday w/ a BIG RAM increase on all plans! http://tinyurl.com/linode7-moar-ram #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-13
Jun 13th
- @tinysubversions I have a friend who used to do that for a living (working at an eBay retailer). I can DM you his email if you like in reply to tinysubversions #
- @pciccarello Thank you for the kind words
in reply to pciccarello # - getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (http://rubygems.org/yaml) Uh-oh… *jumps to conclusions and shakes fist at @railsconf* #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-06
Jun 6th
- @jquery_jsplumb Wow, what a trip. Best of luck with everything! in reply to jquery_jsplumb #
- Orbitron Bold is a fantastic font for subtitles in movies (you can set this in most media players) http://bit.ly/9FXAMv (free) #
- You think I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake? #bladerunner #
- @jquery_jsplumb oh cool! From where to where? That is a perfectly understandable excuse =) in reply to jquery_jsplumb #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-30
May 30th
- @jquery_jsplumb How's the new release coming along? I'm really excited to start playing with draggable connectors http://bit.ly/bsMdkj #
- @RobDiMaggio Dead link in your last tweet
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23
May 23rd
- @litmusapp I don't give a fuck about spamalytics – what happened to easy xbrowser testing & screenshots? Thought that was your game man cmon #
- If you upgraded to #ubuntu 10.04 and your notify-send command is missing, apparently its in the "notify-bin" package from the repo #
- @techiferous Glad to hear it wasn't just mine – A full service outage is someody else's problem
in reply to techiferous # - @dol1house Update: server is back online #
- @dol1house Sorry, Linode seems to be having some issues today & yesterday. I'll work on it as soon as I can get back in myself in reply to dol1house #
- May 31st is Quit Facebook Dayhttp://www.quitfacebookday.com/ #
Does it take you a while to get started in the morning?
May 18th
It does for me. When I actually am ready to sit down and do some Rails hacking, I still have to fire up a couple irb consoles, open my editor, make sure Redis is running, start a resque worker, autotest, log tails, etc etc etc… I'd really rather get right to it, wouldn't you?
Ahhh, that's much better!
task :begin => [:gvim, :console, :logs, :watchr, :server, :resque]
task :console do
puts "Opening IRB console…"
`gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=railsconsole -x script/console`
end
task :logs do
puts "Opening log files…"
`gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=rails -t "Rails Logs" -x tail -f log/*`
end
task :watchr do
puts "Starting test watchr…"
`gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=rails -t "Test Watchr" -x rake watchr:test`
end
task :gvim do
puts "Starting gvim…"
sh 'gvim'
end
task :server do
puts "Starting application server…"
`gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=rails -t "Application Server" -x script/server`
end
task :resque do
puts "Starting resque web… (http://localhost:5678)"
`resque-web 2> /dev/null`
puts "Starting resque worker…"
`gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=rails -t "Resque Worker" -x rake day:quick_resque_worker`
end
task :quick_resque_worker do
sh "QUEUE=* rake resque:work"
end
end
namespace :watchr do
task :test do
sh "watchr test/test.watchr"
end
end
Into my Rakefile it goes! And if you like that, be sure to check out git-pivotal – grab the next thing to do and give it its own branch with just one more command. Anyone feeling clever enough to implement a rake day:end as well?
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09
May 9th
- If you're using a test suite, stop checking in code that doesn't pass! Really quite simple! I'm looking at you, every project on @github #
- jaml looks really cool! #haml style syntax for building HTML with #javascript http://is.gd/bYkp7 #
- Just reached #inboxzero – if you are still waiting for a reply from me, you'll probably need to hit me up again – logan@logankoester.com #
- @codinghorror How about Mibbit? That way you're not limited to webchat, users preferring an IRC client have options http://is.gd/bWxeJ in reply to codinghorror #

