http://www.rubyhead.com Lovin' Ruby Programming Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:59:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been struggling to find a text editor for developing in Linux. I went through jEdit, gedit, emacs, vi, and even NetBeans (I know, it's an IDE). None of them really could really help me with my addiction to TextMate on Mac. I even modified gedit to ... http://www.rubyhead.com/2008/08/12/linux-text-editor-for-ruby-and-rails/ I blogged about getting a personal mentor before. Well, now you guys will get the opportunity to listen on some of it now that Ben has graciously agreed to let me post our sessions. I won't be posting the entire session since the sessions contain our personal conversations. The ... http://www.rubyhead.com/2008/08/01/mentoring-sessions-coming/ I just moved this blog to a new server and some of you might have experienced outage. Please accept my apology as this won't happen again, at least for a year...;) http://www.rubyhead.com/2008/07/22/pardon-the-interruption/ I think I mentioned that I was seriously thought about becoming the independent app developer on Cocoa several years ago... Well, I've been busy catching up on Obj-C 2.0 and iPhone SDK now that Apple got my money. You must be thinking, "hey, this blog is about Ruby ... http://www.rubyhead.com/2008/07/16/iphone-app-rails-app/ Please contact Steve. He's one of the good ones. Of course, there's always my buddy Brian at www.mirrorplacement.com. I am an IT recruiter looking for a Ruby on Rails Project lead working with a fortune 50 Co in NYC on the Avenue of the Americas Job pays $90K + Please call me ... http://www.rubyhead.com/2008/07/09/rails-job-09july2008/ It appears that Mac OS 10.5.4 update I did on my machines breaks a Rails app that I'm working on. Granted, it's still on Rails 1.2.3 and uses all kinds of experiments (I didn't do it, not most of it anyways), this shouldn't be happening. I isolated the ... http://www.rubyhead.com/2008/07/01/mac-os-154-update-breaks-my-app/ It appears that Ubuntu guys pushed the patch to fix the security vulnerability we're all going crazy over. I just applied the patch this morning and below is the result of my test for Ruby array. irb(main):001:0> a = [] => [] irb(main):002:0> a[0x7fffffff] = "A" IndexError: index 2147483647 too big from (irb):2:in `[]=' from ... http://www.rubyhead.com/2008/06/27/ruby-vulnerability-fixed-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron/