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Kevin Lynch Interviewed About Adobe’s Apollo Project

Monday, December 18th, 2006

TalkCrunch recently interviewed Kevin Lynch about Adobe’s upcoming Apollo project. I’ve been keeping my eye on Apollo and it seems quite interesting. Adobe is calling Apollo “a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy [...]

Using Backpack Offline with PackRat - Screencast

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

This is the first of (hopefully) many screencasts I hope to bring you over the coming months. Today’s screencasat is about how to use your Backpack account offline on your Mac with a new program called PackRat.

Textdrive and Joyent Merge

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

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 [...]

RadRails, A Ruby on Rails IDE

Friday, November 25th, 2005

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 [...]

Locomotive For Rails

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Locomotive is a fast and easy way to get Ruby on Rails up and running quickly on your Mac.  It includes Rails, lighttpd, FastCGI and tons of gems.  There’s even a “max bundle” that includes just about every Ruby oriented thing you can imagine.  So, why am I still using WEBRick?  Because, while Locomotive provides [...]