tony spencer - aka notsleepy

These series of videos are hilarious (in a uber nerdy kind of way) but may not be so funny if you haven't invested a small amount of time to learn ruby and are still stuck in java quicksand trying to figure out which jar is breaking your app. :)...

You are going to need to type fast but I think you can do it in 4 minutes. :) These are my notes on what worked for me on my Fedora core 6 with svn lib already installed by the package manager: 1. Create a Repository svnadmin create /svnrepos

It has been said so many times that scaffold generator is only useful for learning how Rails works and maybe for rapid prototyping and I certainly agree. But scaffold is one of the big things that really excited me when I first discovered Rails. Why is Scaffold Generated Code Useless? Actually I think the stubbed out functions in the controller as well as most of the views are already a great time saver but its really the generated list and show code that is useless:

 

[source:ruby] [/source] Iterating over columns means that I can do nothing but rip this out and explicitly write out each column so I can then change the look and feel to be consistent with my app. Also, what if I want to use div's instead of tables? Rip it apart.

Mike is offering up a free whois API written in PHP. Great tool for domain acquisition or link building! Did you write that Mike? The code looks awfully tidy to be yours. :)

Just this past weekend at the SEO Roadshow gathering in Edinburgh Scotland, Mike and I were discussing the lack of a good PHP IDE. To date I've only used the PHP plugin for Eclipse. If only there were a powerful editor that was written in native code for ...