Labels | Open Source
If you are not familiar with the Nu project start by reading my first post in this series that gives an introduction to getting started with this promising tool. As a quick reference I’ll post a paragraph from the last post introducing Nu:
“Nu is an open source tool built by Dru Sellers (and several others) that aims at bringing Gems, one of Ruby’s most revered features, to the .NET world. If you are not familiar with Gems I suggest you take a minute to read up on them. I would venture a bet that you are already familiar with at least one gem – Ruby on Rails. The following line of code is all that is required to install the Ruby on Rails gem (after installing the Ruby library of course)…”
This post is focused on sharing my experience in creating my first gem for the Spark View Engine. I would be doing you a great disservice if I did not start by saying how easy it is to create a gem. Actually easy is the wrong phrase – crazy easy is more telling. Since I would never ask you to take my word for it, it must mean it is time to show some code.
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Labels | Open Source
If you thought the word “Nu” in the title of this blog post was misspelled, you are in for a treat. And trust me, you are not the only one who made that grammatical assumption.
Nu is an open source tool built by Dru Sellers that aims at bringing Gems, one of Ruby’s most revered features, to the .NET world. If you are not familiar with Gems I suggest you take a minute to read up on them. I would venture a bet that you are already familiar with at least one gem – Ruby on Rails. The following line of code is all that is required to install Ruby on Rails gem (after installing the Ruby library of course)…
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Labels | Version Control
One limitation when using http as a publishing mechanism is that you cannot create a repository remotely; no if, ands, or buts about it. Another twist was that our CM (Configuration Management) procedures dictate that our developers are not permitted to RDP into the Mercurial server. This left us trying to decide how to allow developers to create repositories remotely since our http communication channel does not allow remote repository creation. This post details an approach leveraging PowerShell as a solution to this problem.
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Labels | iPad
I suppose I should consider myself lucky it took an entire month for my iPad to experience issues after reading some of the Apple forum posts. Needless to say, I find very little comfort in that fact right now. For no apparent reason the iPod music app on my iPad began crashing this morning. I read a few posts that recommended a simple fix: open the video app and it ‘magically’ corrects the problem with the iPod music app.
Despite being a little annoyed at having to perform this hack, I was happy that there was an easy solution to my problem, or so I thought…
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