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Apple includes quite a few nice UNIX utilities with Mac OS X. One that I find useful is curl. According to the manual, curl "is a tool to transfer data from or to a server… " I find it useful when downloading large files from the web. Isn’t it annoying [...]

My favorite web hosting company, TextDrive, has merged with Joyent.  I’ve had my eye on Joyent for a while now, thinking how cool it’d be to have their software in our office.  They make what appears to be a great Ruby on Rails based suite of software to help keep your office organized.  I’ve been [...]

“Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.” That’s what the Adium website claims. I ran into Adium when looking for an easy way to connect to my friend on Yahoo! Messenger. I downloaded it, tried it out, and [...]

Thomas Fuchs (of script.aculo.us fame) and friends have revealed their new project called fluxiom. It’s a Ruby on Rails and AJAX based application to “capture, manage, access and deliver content across your enterprise”.  Looks and sounds cool.  I wonder how much it’ll cost. Definitely worth checking out. Read more at mir.aculo.us

I’ve been looking for a good, cross-platform IDE for doing my Rails work. I’m currently using Eclipse with a lot of plugins (thanks to this blog entry). It works great, but it’s a little slow, and takes a while to set up. Now there’s RadRails, an Eclipse based IDE made just for Ruby on Rails [...]