Ruby on Rails, JRuby, AWS, EC2, Exalead - I need your designer glasses, your blue jeans and your black turtle-neck sweater Comments

Comment on 'I need your designer glasses, your blue jeans and your black turtle-neck sweater' by John Gallagher

2009-11-12T01:41:29Z

Welcome to the Mac fold, Rob. I totally agree with you on the keyboard stuff. I've just recently got myself a 13" Macbook Pro too, and it's taken some getting used to the keyboard layout - I've used a PC keyboard with a Mac since, well, forever and this is my first laptop.

One more thing - just thought I'd let you know about a product I'm developing specially for Ruby on Rails developers. It's a time tracker without timers called Lapsus and it's geared towards businesses and freelancers who want to be able to know how much time they spent on a project.

You can read more and sign up for the Beta if you want at http://lapsusapp.co.uk

I'd love to know what you think!

Comment on 'I need your designer glasses, your blue jeans and your black turtle-neck sweater' by Anton Jenkins

2009-09-22T14:28:53Z

Yay, welcome to the mac side of the fence! Gotta laugh at your hash comment - I spent ages trying to figure out where it was. It's kinda embarrassing having to fire up google because you can't find the hash and even more bizarre when you read the search results!

I've stuck with Textmate from my first day on the mac and it's a fantastic little editor. Once you learn the snippets and shortcuts you can totally baffle people watching over your shoulder as you hack code together at lightning speeds. Peepcode do a good screencast on it and James Edward Gray II wrote a pretty good book which goes really in depth.

http://peepcode.com/products/textmate-for-rails-2 http://www.pragprog.com/titles/textmate/textmate

Once you've got passenger + passenger pane set up with the built in apache2 server you'll have yourself an awesome little rig. Instead of tea breaks you'll be finished early with enough time for a trip to the pub ;o)

Comment on 'I need your designer glasses, your blue jeans and your black turtle-neck sweater' by Rob Anderton

2009-09-16T22:59:53Z

Had a bit of fun today getting my ZTE MF627 USB dongle installed with Snow Leopard so I can use my 3 broadband when out and about.

The 3Connect software installed OK, although it needed Rosetta to be installed too, but the configuration tool couldn't see the modem.

I managed to get it working by installing some newer drivers for the modem that I got from ZTE Australia: I downloaded the Mac connection manager, viewed the contents of the package and installed the driver package from Contents/Packages/drv.pkg. After restarting I then was able to restart the 3Connect Setup Assistant and, as if by magic, it was able to see the modem, configured it without any problems, and connected first go... yay!

Comment on 'I need your designer glasses, your blue jeans and your black turtle-neck sweater' by Michael Jerome

2009-09-15T18:59:45Z

We need a WebFellas Time Capsule to copy all the old files onto. Plus I keep forgetting to plug in my external drive, which is stopping me taking full advantage my Time Machine!

Comment on 'I need your designer glasses, your blue jeans and your black turtle-neck sweater' by Rob Anderton

2009-09-14T07:06:22Z

Thanks Michael, I'll give it a try :)

Comment on 'I need your designer glasses, your blue jeans and your black turtle-neck sweater' by Michael Deering

2009-09-14T02:55:55Z

Do yourself a favor and go grab Quicksilver if you have not already.

http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac