For many years, Emacs has had client-server support so that you can leave it running all the time while allowing external applications to open files in it as needed. But that doesn’t work with GUI applications on the Mac, since they generally don’t know how to call an editor using the shell. Instead, most Mac [...]
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Emacs,
Mac,
OSX
I hadn’t expected my first substantial Ruby on Rails project to be for someone else, but that’s how it turned out. For the last couple of months I have been working on a Rails-based update of The Gadgeteer (note: if the site you see is blue and white with small fonts and table-based layout, the [...]
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Rails,
Ruby
Although I generally try to avoid anything in direct proportion to how much hype and attention it receives, I have decided to ignore that policy in the case of Ruby on Rails, the new web framework that is gaining mindshare as a killer app for the Ruby programming language. I’ve got a Ruby book, installed [...]
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Ruby