Author Archive
Managing Multiple Repositories With Git
I’ve started a small side project with a friend of mine. It’s a Ruby on Rails project and he has been doing the design work while I’ll be handling some of the Ruby/Rails backend pieces. For many reasons we went with Git as our source control system, the main reason for this is [...]
Software Craftsmanship: What is a Craftsman
A couple of weekends ago, I attended an Open Spaces developer conference in Austin, TX. The conference had a specific focus on the idea of software craftsmanship. While a nice fishbowl discussion on the open night of the event touched on a lot of ideas, I feel that some people missed the point at what [...]
Pablo’s Fiesta – Los Techies Open Spaces
Over the weekend I made a trip to Austin to attend the Los Techies’ Open Spaces event entitled Pablo’s Fiesta. This was an Open Spaces Conference where the focus was on software craftsmanship. There were a lot of good sessions and I managed to be introduced to several new ideas, technologies, and even a new programming language. While I’m still letting a lot of what I saw, heard, and read while there sink in, you can expect some blog posts in the (near) future about some of the things that were brought up and demonstrated.
gEdit Color Themes
I’ve been using gEdit (the default text editor in Ubuntu) to do some Ruby and Ruby on Rails programming the last few weeks. I was using the RadRails plugin for Eclipse but for some reason my computer slows down considerably when using Eclipse. The thing is, gEdit comes with a couple of nice color themes by default but the darker Oblivion theme wasn’t quite to my liking. So I a quick Google search later and I found a repository on GitHub that contains several nice gEdit color themes. I’ve currently settled on the DarkMate them (see screenshot below).
Internet Privacy, It’s a PUBLIC Internet Folks
If you are going to use the internet, you have to accept some breakdown in privacy. There is no such thing as a “PRIVATE INTERNET”. My approach to internet privacy is this: “Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want seen by the public at large” – that’s it, no more or less. If I don’t want the public knowing about it or fear that it might eventually see the light of day, well then I just simply don’t do it.
mkoby.com Adds a New Writer
Tomorrow you will see a new post from a new author here on this blog. The new author, Andy Snow, is a close personal friend of mine that I have known for many years (well over a decade at this point). He is probably one of the smartest individuals I know, and can bring a [...]
