Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

iX Special - Web on rails - and meinkabinett.de

On Monday, June 8th a new iX magazine special was published. I wrote an article together with Marcus Schiesser on rich clients. The goal was to show how easy it is to combine ruby on rails and ExtJS.
This is my first publication and I’m little bit proud of it The magazine covers a lot [...]

Give your tests some love - cruisecontrol.rb, rails, git, rcov, unit tests and cucumber

Long time passed since I wrote my last blog post. Things happened and I was very busy. But now I have some news to write about.
Refactoring my current project mysedcard.tv produced a bunch of cucumber features. Those are great and I love to see them running in my console. But that can’t be enough so [...]

braid - keep track of external git and svn repositories within a git repository

Attending Euruko 2009 was great! I recommend this conference to every ruby enthusiast. The authors auf braid held a flash talk and tried to demonstrate the power of braid. Unfortunately the didn’t manage to although they typed their commands incredibly fast
Back home I gave braid a try and this tool is great. Before [...]

git-sh - a customized bash shell suitable for git work

Due to a buddy’s tip I installed git-sh from github. Git-sh is a customized bash shell for your daily work with git. It ships along with some handy shortcuts within your new git shell and it’s fully customizable:

Aliases from ~/.gitshrc
commit [...]

fighting with git svn and setting up my own git server with gitosis

the last hour I set up my own git server and finally moved my current project mysedcard.tv to git. You may ask “Setting up a git server … isn’t that much work to do?”. Actually,  it’s not.
What happenend: I used git svn to use git locally and svn on my server as I started with [...]

Why is textmate getting slower and slower?

The last weeks developing my new website mysedcard.tv I recognized textmate getting slower and slower. The worst symptom was cpu usage of almost 100% while putting the focus back to textmate from e.g. firefox or any other application. In the very beginning I said to myself “uhm … it’s because of my bad installation, so [...]