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December 18th, 2011 at 10:56AM

Temporary vim background color

I use this little script to set a a temporary background color to differentiate vim sessions/projects at a glance.

3 notes #vim #snippets

October 22nd, 2011 at 9:34AM

Spinach

Spinach, a gherkin based test framework like cucumber but without the Regex madness.

https://github.com/codegram/spinach

6 notes #testing #spinach #cucumber #ruby #tdd #bdd

August 23rd, 2011 at 8:25AM

Dropzone and Github Gist

One of the tools I use frequently in my workflow is Dropzone.

Dropzone hacks the dock to give you a pop over menu that is easily accessed. The functionality it provides comes down to two things:

A quick way to access icons you don’t want cluttering up the dock itself and -
Drag and drop scripts for things such as quick uploads to Cloud app, Flickr, Dropbox, and folders on your local machine.

Here’s a screencast of how you can use Dropzone to turn highlighted text into a Gist:

It’s worth it at the regular price of $14 bucks anyway, but if you are reading this today (2011-08-23) then go get Dropzone for a 30% discount ($9.79) at Mupromo.

23 notes #dropzone #github #gist #workflow #tools

August 23rd, 2011 at 7:25AM

Newest Robohash Family Member

A continuation of a previous post, here is the Robohash for baby Ayla:

Ayla

http://robohash.org/ayla.png

August 22nd, 2011 at 10:31AM

Just please, do me a favor: before you tell me that Ruby and Rails doesn’t need any of this discipline, have a chat with the guy or gal who is still maintaining the first Rails app you worked on. — http://avdi.org/devblog/2011/08/22/your-code-is-my-hell/

July 9th, 2011 at 10:41AM