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Monkeybars resolver.rb fix

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
I was having problems when adding unpacked gems to the load path in a Monkeybars app. On Windows, if the expanded path that had spaces, items added using...

Hey Twitter: Teach me German

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
I have a long-running background process of trying to learn German. I can understand a fair amount, but have difficulty calling to mind the words when...

Ruby Best Practices Blog

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
The Ruby Best Practices blog has gone live My first post is Solve the problem, not just a problem You can read the comments on Disqus I’m...

So I bought a Mac ...

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
A Mac Mini, actually. For occasional development work. Many things are quite nice and well done. Others, annoying. It looks very nice, but I was...

MWRC 2009 after-thoughts

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
I had a blast at MountainWest RubyConf 2009. Some random thoughts: Big thanks to Yehuda Katz for taking the time to explain the changed planed...

Wii! Playing with Ruby

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
At MountainWest RubyConf 2009 I gave a talk on using the Wii controllers to drive Ruby code. PDF version of the slides Video should be appearing...

Wii talk prep III

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
Food! During the conference, folks will have to fend for themselves to find food. To make life a little simpler I Googled up some maps of various restaurant...

Fun with Ruby and KDE

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
Every so often I find a need for some small script that will reduce or eliminate some annoyance. One case is running out of disk space. I really could...

Wii talk prep II

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
I’m putting together a sample app, trying to pay attention to all the little steps, all the things that need to be in place if you want a Wii-enabled...

Wii Ruby talk prep

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
I’m still not quite sure what the theme of my MountainWest RubyConf talk will be. I have ~30 minutes, but realistically I need to plan for fewer, perhaps...