Railscasts – Formtastic Part 1 & 2

This is more like it:Railscasts – Formtastic Part 1 and Part 2.

Soap4R Online RDoc Documentation

The Ruby Soap4R API docs at http://dev.ctor.org/doc/soap4r/ are way out of date compared to the most recent gem. Don’t use them. Use gem server to view the rdocs locally.

7 Things I Wish I Had Known About jQuery

Some jQuery tips I came across: In the Woods: 7 Things I Wish I Had Known About jQuery

On Your Best Behavior: Prototype, LowPro, and Responsible Scripting | The Thoughts of Robots

On Your Best Behavior: Prototype, LowPro, and Responsible Scripting | The Thoughts of Robots

git pull origin master config

Configuring origin master in git: git pull origin master config

Cucumber

The more I use Cucumber on the Blacklight project, the more I like it. Sometimes, when I’m feeling lazy, it seems that it’s just taking up my time. But every time I use it I’m glad I did. Cucumber holds my hand as I write my features and scenarios. Write scenarios, watch them fail, copy-paste the output to a step, write the application code, pass, move on. When I’m done, I’ve got running code that specifies a feature and its scenarios. This really paid off the other day when I was refactoring the code behind Blacklight’s search history feature.

QuickBooks Mac Pain

Preparing a file for conversion from QuickBooks for Macintosh to QuickBooks for Windows just shouldn’t be this difficult. You’d think a large company that makes so much money from QuickBooks could make a common file format for the Mac and Windows versions.

Cocoa Is My Girlfriend » Don’t treat your customers like thieves

I found this to be a though-provoking essay on customer-relations: Cocoa Is My Girlfriend » Don’t treat your customers like thieves. I tend to agree with Marcus that draconian policies work against the developer.

Obama inaugurates YouTube-side chats

We’ve clearly entered a new era of communication. This is very cool: Obama inaugurates YouTube-side chats • The Register

Report Sees New Pollution Threat – NYTimes.com

Ponder your own carbon footprint while reading this: Report Sees New Pollution Threat – NYTimes.com