Cross-platform offline documentation
For years I’ve relied on Dash to provide offline documentation for coding projects. Unfortunately, the excellent Dash app is not available cross-platform which means I’ve started using Zeal for offline access to coding documentation. Add Docs to Zeal To add documentation to Zeal click the button provided when you open the application. Then search through…
Cider – A Comprehensive Apple Music Client for Linux Windows and macOS
Most of the devices in my house are Apple which means I pay for Apple One for the whole family to listen to music, play games, and have adequate storage for devices1. But with moving to Fedora Linux on one of my computers to work I no longer have access to Apple’s first party Music…
How to Access Synology in Fedoras Terminal
I had to move a bunch of files over from macOS to my Framework laptop, including a bunch of node stuff that just wasn’t copying via the standard file browser in Fedora 37. This means I turned to rsync which will just work to copy any amount of files, and can resume itself. Where is…
Opening My Workflows to Break System Lock in and Tracking
For about 10 years now I’ve been a happy Apple user, though lately I’ve been less happy with at least some of their offerings. My biggest issue lately has been that I don’t like their laptop line at all. Even if I was to ignore the keyboard woes plaguing their butterfly keyboards, I don’t think…
Episode 1 – Andrea R
The inagural episode of Your Workflow. Today I interview @andrea_r. We talk about her work with WordPress and WordPressMU and the tools she uses to get her job done. We even delve a bit into what her husband @wpmuguru uses, as a core committer to the WordPress project for WordPress 3.0. [podcast]http://www.archive.org/download/YourWorkflowEpisode1andrea_r/yourworkflow-001-andrea-r.mp3[/podcast]
Designing for Small Screens
Netbooks are becoming very popular today because of the price and the true needs of 90% of the computing population. Most people are just checking their email, getting on Facebook, tweeting a bit and maybe wordprocessing. Most people don’t need anywhere near the horse power provided by fullsize laptops and desktops. Even for myself the…
The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 2
This is the second part to getting a Windows machine set up for Ruby on Rails Development by having Ubuntu running inside Virtualbox. View Part 1 here. Today’s screencast will walk through installing Ruby, rubygems 1.3.5 and Rails with rubygems, and SqLite3 as well as installing my preferred code editor Komodo Edit. Watch the screencast…
The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 1
I recently purchased a new computer and had to get Ruby on Rails installed on it. Up to this point I’ve been using my wife’s Macbook for ROR development on weekends. It was time to make the jump to a dedicated environment that didn’t interfere with the Facebook cravings of the wife. Instead of just…
