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Forking, Continued

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
David Welton has posted a thoughtful reply to my comment. Unfortunately, he missed my point. I can only assume this is due to a lack of clarity on my part...

Linux vs Classic Dev Style

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
I tried to leave this as a comment on Developer > Project, or Project > Developer(s)? but the form errored and I couldn’t find a contact email address...

TextMate Minor Mode

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
TextMate Minor Mode is an Emacs minor mode that emulates some awesome TextMate features. Like ⌘T (find file in project). And ⇧⌘T (go to...

→ try()

~4 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors. [Linked from: Space Babies]
This is something we’re using on GitHub that I really wish I started using sooner. For lack of a better name, it’s called try(). It works likedef...

→ Paginate Anything

~4 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
We just added pagination on commit lists to GitHub. You can see it in action at Dr Nic’s two_point_ooh branch of the Rails TextMate bundle. The thing...

→ Local Gems

~4 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Why do we always type sudo when installing and uninstalling gems on our dev machine? There’s no point. Keep your gems in your home directory so they...

→ class << self is harmful

~4 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Please stop using it. You know who you are and what I’m talking about. I’ve never seen code improved by its use. It adds more lines and less clarity...

→ Patches, Please

~4 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Since releasing Facebox, I’ve been getting a lot of email about it. A search through my inbox produces 35 conversations. And you know what? Out of...

→ Git post-commit for profit

~4 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Unless you’re on Ruby 1.8.6 (which has trouble reporting exit codes properly), you can get cheap-as-hell continuous integration with the following pre-commit...

→ GitHub almost released

~4 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Yep, it’s true. GitHub is almost finished. Private beta and all that right now. I’ve moved Ambition over, so have a look. The Merb project is...