Book: Everyday Scripting with Ruby
I read Everyday Scripting with Ruby last week and found it an odd read. I think the problem was that I read it directly after the conceptually dense, language rich, feature length Programming Ruby.
The book is pitched at a very high level, so that non-developers can get familiar with Ruby. Now [...]
Migrating from Serendipity to Wordpress
This blog is really a note to myself and anyone else interested in doing the same thing. Basically, I wanted to move off my old blog based on Serendipity 1.1 and onto the latest version of Wordpress (2.3.2 as of yesterday evening!). After picking my way through doom and gloom posts, it’s impossible, [...]
Back to WordPress - Nice!
Well, that’s the hard part done. I find changing blogs is like moving house. First you get this feeling of impending doom, then the transition period is just plain painful and full of unwanted surprises, but the end result is great. Just don’t make a habit of it.
Unfortunately, I made a mistake. [...]
RSpec: automated testing and then manual testing. It works!
I think I have caught the Ruby bug (always last to the party cleve, always the last to arrive!) in a big way. In between my day job, I have been reading (Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails, Everyday Scripting with Ruby) and writing (currently re-writing clevegibbon.com) Ruby. However, today I was [...]
First steps towards a knowledge portfolio…
…MacTeX! Wonderful. Going to back to basics. I used to managed my knowledge portfolio using BibTeX and typeset using either LaTeX or troff. Thank you to all those people that contributed to MacTeX and in particular those that provided a nice BibDesk GUI view of bibTeX files that comes in a [...]
The Knowledge Portfolio
When I started out on my PhD I was given a great piece of advice from a someone who had just completed theirs: whatever you do, whatever you read, document it! Oh, and one more thing Cleve, make sure you read one article, every day, until you have completed your thesis. This was [...]
The Random Mango…
The Random Mango! Great site. I was introduced to this by my 7 year old daughter and her mates. Damage - I lost 5 hours of my life. Personal favourites - Draw Play and Spank the Monkey.
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