Just bought http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/ and cloned the repo.
Features that keep me using Firefox, even w/o plugins:
• Turn off HTTP_REFERER • Turn off GIF animation • Prompting before accepting cookies
#Cucumber isn’t a test framework. It’s a test framework framework.
Amazed at the hoops having to be jumped through to maintain the pretense that #Cucumber is “plain text”.
Getting tired of the B.S. The programming methodology people should be using is S.T.F.U.A.W.S.C.
#Vim plugin of the day for me is definitely https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic .
States are looking more like political echo chambers: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/03/29/175698193/a-state-apart-and-politically-a-world-away
Today’s #Ruby non-fun: There’s no method for testing whether a path is absolute, though there’s rb_is_absolute_path() in file.c in the MRI source.
The future has arrived. Guy in coffee shop is having a conversation in sign language via Face Time on an iPad Mini.
Hello #PDX. I hear you have some fine drumming this weekend.
Current mandatory Firefox plugins:
• BetterPrivacy • Ghostery • HTTPS-Everywhere • It’s All Text! • Link Widgets • NoScript • RequestPolicy
TIL to use current_config() instead of Rails.env() in database operations in #Rake tasks with #Rails v3.2.
The #Ruby community’s propensity for monkey patching sucks rocks.
The best programming language is obviously the one best able to string eval «1+1»: http://youtu.be/TyQHVOdyoCM #ruby #python #php #perl #nodejs /via https://twitter.com/garu_rj/status/315976576464478208
Watching the Star Wars movies in Ernst Rister order. Not going with Machete order because I want to watch Maul.
AirPlay totally rocks.
Media link in ADN post/tweet/web page/iBooks goes from iPad to 65” TV just like that.
OMFSM. Kosher saccharin. What will they think of next? Image [photos.app.net]
Half a dozen Don Quixotes, of both genders, armed to their beards with ukuleles, take on Sergio Leone and Willie Nelson: http://www.buildingstage.com/images/q_web.jpg
What’s not to love about mashed potatoes deep-fried in duck fat?
Tonight’s entertainment: Dawn, Quixote. Given their Moby Dick, I’m seriously looking forward to this.