Andrew Atkinson

Wemux is a way to do remote pairing (collaborative code development) with less bandwidth, compared with a full graphical interface.

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RubyConf Argentina 2012 was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at a theater in the Paseo La Plaza area. This area is in the center of Buenos Aires near the obelisk landmark. Attendees came from Buenos Aires, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru,...

Events Ruby Conferences Lean Startup

I had the chance to attend two conferences this Fall in New England.

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A Set 1 is a useful collection in Ruby. A Set does not allow duplicates. Converting between a Set and an Array is easy. In the article A Guide to Ruby Collections, II: Hashes, Sets, and Ranges 2 the author...

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fugitive.vim

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Recently I was asked to do a code review on an entire repository. Normally I review a pull request where I can leave a comment on a specific line.

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I started learning tmux and highly recommend the book tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development 1 as a guide. My tmux.conf 2 configuration file is available as well. tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development by Brian P. Hogan The Pragmatic Programmers ↩ tmux.conf configuration file ↩...

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This blog is generated from text files that are comprised of a section of YAML code then markdown-formatted text. To convert the text files for use with new blog software I had to edit each filename and put the date...

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ImageMagick is an image manipulation library that supports the ability to crop an image programmatically. There is a creative aspect to making a crop from an original image. A photo producer may be unhappy with a crop that was chosen...

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MySQL LOAD DATA INFILE can be used to load thousands or millions of records very quickly. Each row in a CSV text file will be created as a record in the database.

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