Monthly Archives: November 2008

Gantty’s Sexy Syntax

Gantty now has wonderfully gorgeous block syntax. Check it out:

@gantt = Gantty::create do name "Project Alpha Gantt Chart" company "Awesomeco, Inc." website "http://example.com" details "This is the description of the project."   task "Complete this task" [...]

Bizarre Memetic Coincidences in Advertising

The new branding for Pepsi as reported by Brand New:

Mozilla SeaMonkey’s logo:

Textmate, RSpec, and Pending Tasks

Do you use this syntax in your RSpec files to designate pending tasks?

it "should do something"

Do you hate that the RSpec TextMate bundle borks on it and can’t find a symbol for it? You’re in luck! Grab my fork of David Chelimsky’s rspec-tmbundle and woe no more!

The best part is that pending tasks [...]

Gantty learns a trick: Trac to Gantt in 30 seconds flat

Gantty is growing up fast. I don’t know how it happened. One day he was perfectly content to retrieve information about GanttProject charts, and now he’s not happy unless he’s wading through and writing GanttProject files. And with this latest piece of funnery, Gantty shows off what it’s capable of.

Are you using Trac for some [...]

Sequel is Gorgeous

My original DataMapper classes:

class Post include DataMapper::Resource property :id, Serial property :title, String property :body, Text property :created, DateTime property :author, [...]