by David Orriss Jr | Jun 10, 2012 | Mac OS X, Programming, Ruby
While tinkering with Ruby 1.9 in TextMate I found that Ruby was segfaulting on the TextMate Ruby Bundle output screen. /Users/codethought/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Ruby.tmbundle/Support/RubyMate/catch_exception.rb:16: [BUG] Segmentation...
by David Orriss Jr | Nov 23, 2011 | Grails, Groovy Language, J2EE, Java, Rails
Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. At least that’s...
by David Orriss Jr | Dec 1, 2010 | General, Mac OS X, Windows
Does that title sound familiar? My wife and I got an email this morning from my father that read as follows: Subject: I’m writing this with tears on my eyes !!! Hello, I’m sorry for this odd request and I’m writing this with tears on my eyes due to...
by David Orriss Jr | Nov 27, 2010 | Mac OS X, Programming
A subject that has been visited plenty of times is having an “Open Terminal Here” ability from the Finder. For developers, it’s a easy way to look at files or folders and then jump quickly to a shell for the folder and execute shell commands (like mv...
by David Orriss Jr | Jan 27, 2010 | Programming, Rails, Ruby
I’m sure you’ve probably seen this question in your programming classes.. I decided I wanted to play with Ruby again and was remind of this problem, so thought it might be fun as a simple exercise to do this in Ruby. The problem is to take a long integer...