This breaks my heart - my poor Mac!
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Usually my ruby stack is rock solid. But horror of horrors, I was let down today! A simple 'sudo gem update --system' resulted in:
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NameError)
undefined local variable or method `remote_gemspecs' for #
The release notes inform me: NOTE: RubyGems 1.1 and 1.2 have problems upgrading when there is no
rubygems-update installed.
So a quick sudo update_rubygems later and we're off to the races! Now I'm off to to play with Edge Rails new template features....
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Well, it looks like Versions is out of Beta! I just got a discount code via e-mail from Beanstalk, but the gateway it links to is down. Over-demand! The Versions site is still there, and it says the app is priced at €39. That's not bad at all!
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Oh wow, I have serious techno-joy going on right now. The new Apple MacBook is just incredible - beautiful, stylish, practical, minimalist, ingenious. Fabulous! That enough superlatives for ya?!
I'm seeing a new purchase in my tea leaves...
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There's the ability on the web to determine if a link has already been clicked on, and to display it slightly differently if it has.
You see this all the time on a page of results at google - the way a page you've already visited is purple to let you know you've been there already. This behaviour is pretty much default in fact, and too many web designers (myself included!) tend to style for links and neglect the poor a:visited property - even to prevent anything unique happening to a previously visited link. I've always thought it can spoil a design to have different coloured links all over the place with no clear indication to the user of why there's some links in blue and some links in green.
Well - Apple have just changed my mind!
They have an awesome collection of brief 'tip' videos over at
http://www.apple.com/business/theater/. You'll notice after you've watched a few that you get neat little 'ticks' to indicate which ones you've already viewed. I love this! It's really intelligent design - a clear indicator beyond 'different colour' to show where a page has been visited. So obvious when you think about it!
So I've mercilessly ripped off the idea, and the navbar on the coldcactus site now shows similar little 'tick' marks to aid user navigation. You can see a little example below - I love 'em!
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Simon's been creative this week, and there's new artwork for the office wall!
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There's a new kid on the block! I've been using the Beta of Versions for some time now, and today I realised just how truly great it is - so I figured I'd give it some love!
I had been using svnX previously, but Versions has completely replaced it in my workflow. It's a true Cocoa app, it's powerful, it's already pretty complete and it's totally lickable to boot. There's no substitute for the Terminal, but I much prefer using a GUI to I can easily SEE what's ready to be checked in - and Versions is it for me now.
I'm buying it when it's fully released - even if it's disgracefully overpriced. Those clever people at Pico + Sofa Design are like virtual crack dealers, clearly. They pull you in with free samples until your hooked and then it's too late! Check it out for yourself at
http://versionsapp.com/ - they'll do a much better job of telling you about features than I will!
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