I’ve been unfortunate to have used Windows just recently. I work on a Mac, but to install a new internet server I needed a piece of software the only runs on Windows. So Daniël lent me his laptop and I proceeded to install the software.
A post like this one is the stuff of dreams. A guy starts coding a project because he believes in it. It starts to become a success, but his employer is bought by Microsoft. Microsoft offers the guy a huge salary to retain him as an employee. Guy declines. Guy follows his heart and builds a kick ass mofo of an app. Which app? GitHub. Whammo!
It took a US blog to point out to me: this cool new Dutch coin with a smashing design on it. The creator used only Open Source software to create the design. It’s not one of our regular coins though, it’s a commemorative ‘silver’ 5 euro coin. Still very cool.
It’s such a good idea that it’s strange nobody thought of it sooner. Create a site where all the geeks in the land can host their code and easily work on one another’s projects. Make it one-click to send patches to anyone. Free for open source apps; paid for closed source. Profit!
For all the apparent ‘l33tness’ the rcov tool is in a pretty sad state. Unusable, even. I get bus errors all the time and I know from experience I am not the only one. Why was this a good tool to use?
The first thing you learn as a web developer is probably how to make a link. It’s so basic to the web that it is hard to see what’s wrong with it. Still, some people think the good old A tag needs a stern talking-to. Especially in the area of behaviour.
Today I quickly wrote the Dutch localization for the jQuery validate plugin. Download it here or read more to copy/paste it from this post.
Daniël has done an awesome mod in the nuPlay environment: he’s built his very own multitouch table.
Countless tutorials have been written about installing PostgreSQL on Mac OS X Leopard, so I am not going to go in detail. Your best bet is to either build from source or use Macports. But after that all online instructions seemed to fail for me. Building postgres went fine, but the gem wouldn’t. Finally I discovered the trick. The bash environment wasn’t passed through sudo…