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Barry Kukkuk wrote a new blog post: AutoJump my most used shell utility

So the thing with developing in Linux is that you’re going to use the shell a lot. And the other thing with Linux is that most things are in a deep directory hierarchy. I find myself changing to different directories with long names a lot.
Even with tab-completion, it becomes really tiresome, and slows me down.
I [...]

  11 months, 1 week ago · View

Barry Kukkuk wrote a new blog post: Camel Case helper method

So I have a Rails application that has most of the data stored in all uppercase. It’s like that, because most of it is imported from an external source.
But when I show the data I want it to show in Camel Case, especially where names are concerned.
I made this little helper:
def camel_case(line)
res = [...]

  11 months, 3 weeks ago · View

Barry Kukkuk wrote a new blog post: Is fat the new slim?

So they guy from Quirkey Blog created a new way to run web apps. It’s based on sammy.js. Sammy.js, in turn, is based on Sinatra. Sinatra is a very light weight web framework for Ruby. Sammy uses CouchDB for back-end storage.
The idea behind Sammys is that the web browser talks directly to the data store. [...]

  11 months, 3 weeks ago · View

Barry Kukkuk wrote a new blog post: Google flips the internet

On 14 September Google launched Fast Flip. It is basically a way to flip through web sites like you would flip through the pages of a magazine.
Why would anyone want that? Well, for starters, it’s FAST. It makes it very quick to scan for content that you’re looking for. Once you hone in on [...]

  11 months, 3 weeks ago · View

Barry Kukkuk wrote a new blog post: Hello world!

Welcome to Open Source South Africa. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

  11 months, 3 weeks ago · View