I’m working my way through “Agile Web Development with Rails – Third Edition” and the latest version of the PickAxe “Programming Ruby – Third Edition” books of the Pragmatic Programmers. As Snow Leopard is my OS I need to update the default shipped Ruby and Rails versions to get to Ruby 1.9 and Rails on [...]
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Great Visual Diff/Merge tool for OSX
Back when my primary dev-environment was Microsoft I would use the open-source tool WinMerge for all my Diff/Merge needs. Great tool, good performance, does the job. Now that I’ve switched to the Mac I had to find a new visual Diff/Merge tool, and I want it cheap, or better free Searches in the past didn’t [...]
Searching the Java RunTime for Vista 64-bit
I had a hard time finding the correct JRE for my Vista 64-bit installation. Apparantly it’s not on the Www.Java.Com site, at least I couldn’t find it on the downloads page, and don’t get me started on the automated detection/installation procedure at that site. I had more luck on the Sun-site, follow the path of [...]
