The spammers won (well not really), after getting tired of deleting spam en masse (by the thousands every other months or so), I decided to close comments on some older posts that happen to have a better page rank than most. If you really need to get to me, please feel free to use the Contact me page
merb 1.0
ANN: rails-undo-redo
by Pascal on February 18, 2008 in News, Rails
To this day, very few web apps provide any undo/redo capabilities. This is really not such a good thing for usability. There are a few exceptions like gmail, but it does not go far enough to provide what every one is used on their desktop.
ANN: git-rails
by Pascal on February 5, 2008 in News, Rails
Git is quickly becoming one of the best option for using a DVCS (Distributed Version Control System). Git main goal is to be quick (most everything you do is local), and has already been battle tested by the Linux Kernel dev team.
MacHeist
by Pascal on January 21, 2008 in Mac, News
If you have a Mac, or want one, then you should surely take a look at the $49 bundle MacHeist has put together. An amazing value, with lots of cool apps. Plus 25% of your purchase goes to charities.
It’s like getting 1password, CoverSutra (truly cool), and Snapz Pro for half the price, and getting all other 11 Mac Applications for free. Check it out (via Obie Fernandez)
Ruby Gem 1.0 is out
by Pascal on December 20, 2007 in News, Quid Pro Quo
Upgrade to Windows XP?
by Pascal on December 15, 2007 in News
This was just too good to pass up! Vista has been getting a pretty bad rap anywhere you look (well, at least anywhere I look, and from second hand experience helping people with their Vista machine), so here’s your chance to finally Upgrade to XP
Dreamhost codes
by Pascal on December 5, 2007 in News
I’ve had my ups and downs with Dreamhost and I’m now running nano RAILS on a kick ass VPS with gentoo.
But for a starter ruby site (nano RAILS was hosted there for over a year!), it is hard to beat their price, and they do run quite nicely with fcgi. If you want to run multiple apps, using mongrel, then sure it is not for you.
An amazing lesson in Micro Biology
by Pascal on July 25, 2007 in News
If you are just curious about how things work, or a big fan of Micro Biology, you should not miss this 10 minutes video.
David Bolinsky has created an amazing video where he shows in stunning motion the inner working of the cell. This may have been staged so that visibility of what’s going on is increased, but the video are just breath taking. I look forward to watch his entire creation.
Finally migrated to Mephisto
by Pascal on June 16, 2007 in News
Big sigh of relief…
… and yes, everything went fine. Well, mostly. If something looks amiss, please use the brand new feedback page (thanks Rick!) to let me know. I’ve tried to redirect most existing urls to their new ones as Mephisto and Typo slightly differ on how they generate the permalink portion, but may have missed a few (so if you get an error page when something used to work, please do let me know!).





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