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My Ewgeco

~2 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
Ewgeco E200 We’ve had a test Ewgeco unit kicking around the office for a while now, and since we’ve moved out the office, it’s been lying in a box...

Equality, Comparison and Uniqueness in Ruby

over 1 year ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
Ruby has the Comparable module, which, if you implement the spaceship operator (winner of “Best Named Operator” 10 years running!) then it will give...

Converging your Home Directory with Chef

over 1 year ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
In this tutorial, I'll take you through using Chef and Homebrew to manage your home directory in Mac OS X. I've also included a neat cookbook which will...

Using SagePay in your Ruby Projects

over 1 year ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away … Ok, I’ll stop now. A few years back, I was working on a client project and they needed to integrate with...

Installing on my Mac at home

over 1 year ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
This is a short tutorial on connecting back to your home Mac via SSH, through the magic of MobileMe, then downloading some software, mounting the disk image...

Vagrant base box for Debian Squeeze

over 1 year ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I've built a Vagrant base box for the newly released Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" which went live over the weekend. I figured I'd share it to save you the bother...

Vagrant box for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick (64 bit)

~1 year ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I didn’t really intend this to turn into a series, but hey ho. I needed to build a 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 vagrant image for a client project I’m working...

Using tcpflow

~1 year ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
Sometimes, when you're writing applications that use a library to talk over the wire to a remote service, it's difficult to see how the high level API the...

Pimpin’ TextMate (aka Top 5 TextMate Plugins, 2011 Edition)

9 months ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I've put together a list of the indispensable TextMate plugins that take a great editor and make it awesome, including enhanced file finding, project search...

Ruby Timeout Woes, Part 1

9 months ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
in which I discover that the behaviour of Ruby's built in timeout mechanism has changed slightly between Ruby 1.8.x and Ruby 1.9. Continue reading →...