Under the Hat

If you’re a developer like me, you probably spend a whole lot of time in your Terminal window. We all love the power that comes with the shell, but we can get frustrated because it doesn’t work quite the way we want it to.

That’s why Robby created oh-my-zsh. This is a collection of extensions to zsh, which is a replacement for the default bash on your Mac.

It does a whole slew of nifty things. Case-insensitive auto-complete is one of them. Autocompletion of paths at the remote end of your scp command is another one. But the reason I really love oh-my-zsh is this:

That’s right. Because I suck at typing.

For the third time, the Belgian Ruby community is organising a one-day developer’s room with presentations on Ruby and Rails at FOSDEM (6 Feb 2010, Brussels).

FOSDEM is one of Europe’s biggest conventions of people working on Open Source Software. This is a great opportunity to meet the brighest minds in the OSS world!

We’re looking for people who want to share their passion about Ruby or Rails.

You can submit your proposal until until Monday, January 4, 2010. For more details, have a look at the call for papers

Even if you’re not presenting, we love to meet you there!

Sinds 2006 is 10to1 bezig met het ontwikkelen van web applicaties in alle soorten en maten. We gebruiken daarvoor vooral Ruby on Rails, en soms ook Java.

Na meer dan 3 jaar wordt het tijd dat we ons team versterken.

Daarom dachten wij aan jou!

Jij bent een gedreven software ontwikkelaar(ster). Je hebt interesse in web applicatie technologiën. Je weet wat “MVC” en “OOP” wil zeggen, en hoe je het moet toepassen. Je kent Ruby en Rails, of je bent gebeten om het te leren. Als termen zoals “iPhone development” of “Android ontwikkeling” je sexy in de oren klinken, is dat mooi meegenomen.

Wij bieden je een toffe job in een fantastische omgeving waar de nieuwste technologiën gebruikt worden, in een team van sympathieke mensen. Ons kantoor is in het rustige Edegem, vlakbij Antwerpen, de E19 en de A12.

Geïnteresseerd? Laat van je horen op info@10to1.be !

If you’re a developer, you know how it goes. At the beginning of a project, you draw some UML sketches to get you going. There’s a nice tool to do that. As your project goes on, and your code grows, these diagrams don’t get updated too often. After all, every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system. And for a class model, that representation is the code.

But at some points during your development, you have to communicate with some stakeholders. They want to know what your class model looks like. So you have to provide them with a drawing. Until recently, we went through the trouble of creating these diagrams manually. But those days are over: we found yUMLmeRails

To get yourself a diagram, follow these steps:

cd your_project
script/plugin install \
	git://github.com/nelsonsilva/yUMLmeRails.git
rake yUMLmeRails:download

Your diagram will be saved in your_project/diagrams.

Easy. Nice. Handy. Did I mention ‘pie’ ?

Remember when we talked about how to use multiple versions of Ruby on your Mac?

Well, apparently that post is already outdated. Now all you have to do is to install the rvm gem

I’ve just tried it, and it works without a hickup. I’ve noticed one little thing: the installation of the gem creates a file ~/.bash_profile. This, apparently, overrides ~/.bashrc on my Mac. I lost all of my neatly-crafted terminal environment. Deleting ~/.bash_profile fixed this. Happy camper!

In the hope that the Google Gods will help me next time I need this :-)

An easy way to generate a human-readable timestamp string, following the ISO 8601 standard, is:

Time.now.utc.iso8601.gsub('-', '').gsub(':', '')

Very handy if you need a timestamp in a file you’re writing.