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Because I keep doing this… Download the Java zip unzip to /opt ln -s /opt/yed-XXX /opt/yed cd /opt/yed && jar -xf yed.jar com/yworks/yfx/resource/24/yicon.png && mv com/yworks/yfx/resource/24/yicon.png . && rm -rf com echo “[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=yEd Graph Editor Comment=Edit graphm files in yEd Exec=java -jar /opt/yed/yed.jar %u Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=/opt/yed/yicon.png Categories=Application;Office StartupNotify=false MimeType=application/xml; NoDisplay=false” > [...]

A little “remember me later” for conditionally deploying a Rails 3 app running on Ruby 1.9 on Heroku. $ruby_version = `ruby –version`.split[1].to_f source :rubygems source ‘http://gems.github.com’ gem ‘rails’, ‘~> 3.0.0′ gem ‘bson_ext’ gem ‘decent_exposure’ gem ‘haml’ gem ‘mongoid’ group :development, :test do if $ruby_version < 1.9 gem ‘ruby-debug’ else gem ‘ruby-debug-base19′, “0.11.24″ gem ‘ruby-debug19′, “0.11.6″ [...]

In response to Dr Nick’s technological feat, Ajey suggested I take on the much more challenging task of running OS X on a PC. Result!! Also, Mingle 2.0 is released! Another fantastic effort from the ThoughtWorks Studios crew.

After a meeting of the office of the CTO, most of us stayed around in our San Francisco office for a few days to do some podcasts and to participate in a Code Jam for Inveneo, a not-for-profit who provide computers and connectivity to developing countries (especially their schools, hospitals, and poorer villages). They install [...]

I still hate the handling of spaces – especially when you’re throwing in mixed path delimiters using nice GNU tools on DOS/NTFS. If you ever want to get rid of SVN or CVS folders (or whatever) in a large source tree after someone has zipped it and sent it to you straight from their workspace, [...]